Drums of War

He likened Mexico…to Venezuela, …suggesting it was on the verge of a collapse that would have repercussions in the United States, according to two people who attended the meeting

Good lord. Mexico is all kinds of fucked up. On the verge of collapse? It’s not even close. Kelly isn’t “nutty”, he’s willfully ignorant. Forget the White House, that he was able to rise to the level general officer, or field grade officer for that matter, in the U.S. Marine Corps is frightening, How many more of these high ranking half wits are there in the U.S. military? Never mind. Don’t answer that.

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Uri Friedman isn’t my favorite Atlantic author and that series of articles is a great example of why. Starts out one direction, contradicts himself and then kinda meanders off into the field.

Here he presents McMaster’s statement as if it is unjustified, then goes on to justify the statement then just wanders off point for a while. At least the linked War on the Rocks article explains the situation in better depth.

https://twitter.com/frantownsend/status/908749099175833605

https://twitter.com/malcolmnance/status/908763955547508737

https://twitter.com/i24news_en/status/909703541618626560

https://twitter.com/i24news_en/status/909701249460838401

There’s nothing like subtlety…

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A nice read but I thought this was the thread about America The Warmonger

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Who could have predicted that! Also…

craig-ferg-go-wrong

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Have no fear.

I got something for you.

Actually, let me rephrase that. Fear is an excellent response.

(By the way. has anybody noticed that giphy has suddenly outlived its usefulness?)

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https://twitter.com/doomtints/status/910159961983995904

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sam-pitroda-dr-strangelove-mashup

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Ok. This really did fit.

After reading a breakdown of Trumps speech, I am thinking about watching the whole think.
The comment I read said, with singe hinted surprise, that he was coherent in both views and speech. Not that it made the content any better.

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Well, sure. You can always tell when Trump doesn’t believe in something–he’s reading it, and he’s coherent.

700 billion spending on military, unilateralism, and a threat of total war doesn’t, in fact, sound like Trump didn’t believe what he was saying. He also didn’t mention climate change, at all.

Well, I don’t know if I really can watch this. 40 minutes of this are probably a bad idea.

Interested to hear your take on the solution of giving Japan nukes.

Do we trust Japan not to nuke Korea?

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