No more Mattis soon.

curryjunkie said:
you mean to tell me the USA has fucked over a former ally after promising not to? im shocked i tell you.....
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Other presidents have done it, usually remorsefully. Trump has made an art form out of unreliability. He's a fucking Michaelangelo of summarily abandoning commitments.
 
MC OverPressure said:
Other presidents have done it, usually remorsefully. Trump has made an art form out of unreliability. He's a fucking Michaelangelo of summarily abandoning commitments.
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the US is well known for fucking over allies, whether remorsefully or not, the difference with donnie is the total lack of logic attached to it, he just wakes up and his attention is caught by a soundbite or a word in his ear then he throws american foreign policy on its head by spontaneously veering off whatever course the state dept thinks its on, no wonder he had to install some brainless blonde as UN ammbassador, nobody with a shred of credibility is prepared to take the job on. putin just announced new nuclear missiles which apparently are unstoppable, it may be frighteningly true, or it may be that vlad knows hes dealing with a man child and is playing with him, the fact that the moron has the attention span of a fruit fly and the brains of a gnat must be frustrating as fuck for the US military.
 
curryjunkie said:
the US is well known for fucking over allies, whether remorsefully or not, the difference with donnie is the total lack of logic attached to it, he just wakes up and his attention is caught by a soundbite or a word in his ear then he throws american foreign policy on its head by spontaneously veering off whatever course the state dept thinks its on, no wonder he had to install some brainless blonde as UN ammbassador, nobody with a shred of credibility is prepared to take the job on. putin just announced new nuclear missiles which apparently are unstoppable, it may be frighteningly true, or it may be that vlad knows hes dealing with a man child and is playing with him, the fact that the moron has the attention span of a fruit fly and the brains of a gnat must be frustrating as fuck for the US military.
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The like 2 friends of mine still in active duty were happy when Mattis was picked to be SecDef.

Talked to them this weekend:
"Ugh... next thing you know it I'm going to get deployed to like Sri Lanka cause their prime minister laughed at Trump or some bullshit"
 
curryjunkie said:
the US is well known for fucking over allies, whether remorsefully or not, the difference with donnie is the total lack of logic attached to it, he just wakes up and his attention is caught by a soundbite or a word in his ear then he throws american foreign policy on its head by spontaneously veering off whatever course the state dept thinks its on, no wonder he had to install some brainless blonde as UN ammbassador, nobody with a shred of credibility is prepared to take the job on. putin just announced new nuclear missiles which apparently are unstoppable, it may be frighteningly true, or it may be that vlad knows hes dealing with a man child and is playing with him, the fact that the moron has the attention span of a fruit fly and the brains of a gnat must be frustrating as fuck for the US military.
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Yep. Whatever branch, the military likes orderly action accompanied by logical plans.
But what the fuck ever, Twitter was designed to make foreign policy announcements
 
MC OverPressure said:
Other presidents have done it, usually remorsefully. Trump has made an art form out of unreliability. He's a fucking Michaelangelo of summarily abandoning commitments.
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This is Trump's policy, both domestic and foreign.
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hillelslovak87 said:
This is Trump's policy, both domestic and foreign.
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This reminds me of two people I work with.

When they were confronted with the problem of a jammed stapler instead of fixing the jam they just threw it out and ordered a new one of lesser quality.
 
Gregolian said:
The like 2 friends of mine still in active duty were happy when Mattis was picked to be SecDef.

Talked to them this weekend:
"Ugh... next thing you know it I'm going to get deployed to like Sri Lanka cause their prime minister laughed at Trump or some bullshit"
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Can't be having the leader of some coconut island laughing at our President !
 
Isn't is strange how the President of the United States famous for being a reality TV star with the catch phrase "You're fired!" can't actually fire people himself in actual reality.
 
curryjunkie said:
the US is well known for fucking over allies, whether remorsefully or not, the difference with donnie is the total lack of logic attached to it, he just wakes up and his attention is caught by a soundbite or a word in his ear then he throws american foreign policy on its head by spontaneously veering off whatever course the state dept thinks its on, no wonder he had to install some brainless blonde as UN ammbassador, nobody with a shred of credibility is prepared to take the job on. putin just announced new nuclear missiles which apparently are unstoppable, it may be frighteningly true, or it may be that vlad knows hes dealing with a man child and is playing with him, the fact that the moron has the attention span of a fruit fly and the brains of a gnat must be frustrating as fuck for the US military.
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You mean the state department that thinks another 17 years in Afghanistan is a good idea?

Let me be clear, Donald Trump maybe stupid, but anyone who supports staying in Syria and Afghanistan is most definitely a idiot.
 
VivaRevolution said:
You mean the state department that thinks another 17 years in Afghanistan is a good idea?

Let me be clear, Donald Trump maybe stupid, but anyone who supports staying in Syria and Afghanistan is most definitely a idiot.
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the question is not whether its a good idea to stay, but whether an abrupt withdrawal without planning is going to make the geopolitical situation worse in the long term, power vacums have a way of being filled by some nasty people, it doesnt help if you are simultaneously undermining the likes of NATO at the same time,and it could come back to bite the US on the ass if they dont consider the ramifications, 4d chess and all that.......<TheDonald>
 
curryjunkie said:
the question is not whether its a good idea to stay, but whether an abrupt withdrawal without planning is going to make the geopolitical situation worse in the long term, power vacums have a way of being filled by some nasty people, it doesnt help if you are simultaneously undermining the likes of NATO at the same time,and it could come back to bite the US on the ass if they dont consider the ramifications, 4d chess and all that.......<TheDonald>
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No power vacuum in either place. The Taliban and Assad never left.
 
https://www.businessinsider.com/pen...leadership-limbo-2019-7?utm_source=reddit.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — When he resigned as defense secretary last December, Jim Mattis thought it might take two months to install a successor. That seemed terribly long at the time.

Seven months later, the US still has no confirmed defense chief even with the nation facing potential armed conflict with Iran. That's the longest such stretch in Pentagon history.

There is also no confirmed deputy defense secretary, and other significant senior civilian and military Pentagon positions are in limbo, more than at any recent time.

This is all very normal
 
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