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Trump: U.S.military spending could be cut in half- Now 8 percent a year

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by PITBOSS, Feb 13, 2025.

  1. pogba

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    How many attacks has NATO launched on your Russian homeland? The reason they want to be in NATO is because they want protection.
     
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  2. pogba

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    I was actually wrong because I stopped reading too early.

    “Russian elections are freer and more fair than US elections according to many international observers”
    is something you said when they have actually recently murdered an opposition party head. Do you live in Moscow?
     
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  3. JustaGator

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    Sometimes I am half convinced that there is a deep state (or possibly two) orchestrating this whole good cop, bad cop rotating Presidency shit because the country is so evenly split, no one would probably notice since the infrastructure for elections is obviously flawed.

    I can imagine breaking the world's necks with whiplash somehow gives us strategic advantages that traditional behavior doesn't, but then I look at how much of Trump's shit comes off a desk in the Kremlin and then I wonder how our "deep state" got so weak.

    Then I realize no deep state(s) exists and if they did, they suck at their job, and we are just fucked unless this orange turd drops dead.
     
  4. duggers_dad

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    It’s not wrong just because Trump says it. But like you, I LOL at people who believe there are two parties.
     
  5. JustaGator

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    Yes, the oligarch overlords say there are times for liberal (low risk low volatility) markets for everyone and when they are tired of boring, tedious, predictable growth in their markets they now have the MAGA market manipulators (high risk high volatility for the public, printing money for the insiders) to choose from.
     
  6. JustaGator

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    Oh an ex-intelligence official running a country who imprisons, tortures, and murders opposition and overthrows elections can't be strong on internal security, intelligence and influence operations and weak in military power?

    It is probably why they are so good at influence operations - they can't touch us from outside militarily, but can rat fuck us all day long with the spineless cowardly traitors they cultivated on the inside.

    Trump negotiating with Putin, what a joke. We all saw what happens when he got into a room with Putin in Helsinki. Totally browbeaten, spouting Putin propaganda when he came out with Putin's hand up his ass working his mouth.

    Trump is Putin's bitch, end of story.

    That's why MAGA really stands for Make Autocracy Great Again.

    Putin probably gave Trump the name and held the rights and is printing money off these gimps.
     
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  7. thomadm

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    Wow, ok. The US has problems but your worldview is sadly mistaken and wrong. It's no wonder this country is yo-yoing between left and right if the electorate at large is swayed from one extreme to their other...

    Full support for bombing Russia in 2022, now we want them part of NATO and our friends... You literally cant make this shit up.

    Since you brought up homosexuality, I assume your homophobic. Gaslighting me asking If I like homos shows what you really are. Right winged moron. I thought the left was stupid.
     
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  8. vegasfox

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    My late friend AArnaud de Borchgrave, perhaps the greatest foreign policy journalist America ever had, would 100% agree with what I said. He would consider you to be a fool.
     
  9. DawgFanFromAlabam

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    History is a LIBERAL ARTS degree commie.
     
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  10. vegasfox

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    Are you talking about Navalny? He never got higher than 2% in any Russian poll. Putin got 87% of the vote in the last election. You have zero evidence Navalny was killed by Putin, and Putin had no reason to do so. There is also zero evidence that Navalny was ever poisoned by Putin.

    Navalny died not long after his wife and lawyer visited him and gave him medication. Then his wife went to the Munich Security Conference and waited for him to die. Then she made a statement to the world. At least that,'s how some of us see it.

    Keep in mind I'm a genius
     
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  11. vegasfox

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    You sound kinda gay but can you show me where I made that insinuation?
     
  12. duggers_dad

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    Neocons in 2022 were like, “See why we had to bring NATO to Russia’s doorstep ?!?!”
     
  13. duggers_dad

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    You’re an odd bird, sounding off against MAGA (bet you can’t not think about Trump for five minutes) while sounding like a crazy MAGA-type election denier when it comes to Russia’s affairs. Bet you voted for Hillary in 2016. Recall that she claimed Trump was an illegitimate president.
     
  14. chemgator

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    China? The country that has not won a significant naval battle in over 400 years? The country who has not won a significant land war in over a century? The country who's ass we saved in WWII? The country who's economy we built in the 1990's and 2000's? Building a lot of ships does not make you a great military power. Having the biggest army does not make you a great military power, either. China's military is very untested and inexperienced. Hell, at one point, China had no faith in its massive supply of missiles, because technicians were taking the solid rocket fuel out of them and using them to cook hot pot!

    China's military leadership is very much hamstrung by the power structure that communist governments almost always have. Each branch of the military does not trust the others, and different branches rarely want to work together. The job of a military leader is more political than military in nature, as they can be fired at the whim of the Chairman.
     
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  15. chemgator

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    --WITHOUT FIRING A SINGLE SHOT. That last part is somewhat important, because it indicates the fact that countries were begging NATO to take them in because they were scared of a Russian invasion. Those countries know their history, and know what Stalin did in eastern Europe after WWII (and can compare that to what the U.S. did in western Europe after WWII).
     
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  16. JustaGator

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    So you think I shouldn't be sounding off against MAGA and then call them crazy election deniers? - you need to look in a mirror.

    Remember Hillary also told us who Trump and Tulsi were - Russian assets. Just like Flynn, the 14 Republican senators that visited Moscow, the NRA who took their money via Maria Butina, on and on and on. If you think it is a joke, keep thinking.

    When you view everything Trump through a Russian lens, everything comes into focus. His businesses in the 80s - casinos that go bust, real estate empire that goes bust regularly, etc. all of it a front to launder Russian mob money and abuse the US tax system and bankruptcy laws. All of which he leveraged into today.

    Better our oligarchs running things than Russia's with their black money in Trump's real estate money laundering machine, however in the end THEY are on the same side, which is keep the inequality, the fossil fuels, and the two-tiered justice system running.
     
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  17. pogba

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    This may shock you. Ukraine is not in NATO
     
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  18. duggers_dad

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    Except for bombing Yugoslavia for 68 straight days and things like that.

    75 Years of NATO = 75 Years of Denial
     
  19. pogba

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    doesn’t take long to get these people to expose their true colors.
     
  20. pogba

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    Please tell me you sided with Serbia in that conflict