@johnkonrad@MaxBoot@Mpolymer Man, it’s almost like every moment you’re acting in your official capacity as SecDef is important? And anyone with any sense would understand that putting out a metaphor where you’re the NAZIs and that’s a *good* thing would be the only thing people would talk about?
@Captain_Fubar Calls into question who the SecDef believes stormed the beaches in Normandy, who he believes defended those beaches, and which one he believes were the good guys…
@19Katlo@StrategicTrends It’s a defensive alliance. What is the point of NATO to you? The fun part of this is that there’s language in its charter to prevent alliance entanglements in engagements like this precisely because the US didn’t want other nato countries getting us into their colonial BS
@19Katlo@StrategicTrends “Dependable” and that’s why they weren’t involved in Iraq or Afghanistan? Or did they participate in this because it was an operation that directly benefited their political aims?
@19Katlo@StrategicTrends Which is obviously why, after we realized it wasn’t going to be a simple “bomb shit for a week and get what we want” op, we immediately started complaining that NATO should be coming to our aid, instead of doing all of that beforehand like if we had functional leadership
@19Katlo@StrategicTrends You understand this is a “the current administration is monstrously incompetent” argument, yes? It became quite clear that we didn’t approach them for help because we thought this was going to be another Venezuela within the first few days of the operation starting
@ChrisO_wiki@gregbagwell One of Trump’s underestimated keys to success has always been that, after decades of the GOP telling its constituents “we need to be better,” he came along and said “I don’t want you to be better. In fact, I want you to be the worst version of yourself.”
@Clint_Davey1 My brother in Christ. They stopped making those movies because no one goes to see them. A series about Daniel Boone would be financially disastrous.