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I think the more pressing quesiton is when do americans start attacking each
Apr 9, 2024, 9:56 PM
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other because of the incessant gaslighting and doom and gloom attitude about the opposing political parties?
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Re: I think the more pressing quesiton is when do americans start attacking each
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Apr 9, 2024, 10:02 PM
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We don’t need to wait for Americans to start attacking each other.
We’ve got plenty of illegal immigrants to do the job of attacking Americans.
You know … doing those jobs that Americans just won’t do.
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The Big Guy can whup Iran if he wants.
Apr 9, 2024, 10:00 PM
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Just send Hunty on a spy mission to sell crack to the Ayatollah.
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Obrandon will deliver a few more $Billion to Iran
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Apr 9, 2024, 10:08 PM
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to ensure their attack on Americans is spectacular.
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Oh no ... ISIS threatened an attack on U.S.
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Apr 9, 2024, 11:04 PM
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It's not like that happens every single day for years. This is what keeps you worried at night? Did you know Baghdad Bob also said some weally weally mean words about our country too?
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The real question is how many Americans die to keep Netanyahu in power
Apr 9, 2024, 11:59 PM
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And out of jail.
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Is this what you were saying
Apr 10, 2024, 8:26 AM
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on October 8th?
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Silly Iran
Apr 10, 2024, 7:31 AM
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With Biden relaxing sanctions enforcement, China alone has bought enough Iranian oil to bank an estimated $80 billion.
Now we're going to allow Iraq to pay Iran in hard currency for its energy imports from Iran.
We freed up another $10 billion previously that the Qatari accountants are scrupulously doling out to Iran for peaceful purposes.Sure.
Iranian proxies have hit our assets between 150-200 times, yet instead of a strike on Iranian assets, we are going the peace through dollars approach to try to win the Iranians over, much as the plan to win over student loan debtors by paying them off.
Why would the Iranians think we had anything to do with this is? While possible, it's more likely the full actions of Little Satan and not the Great Satan.
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It's a twofer for China. They get Iranian oil and the USA stays engaged in the
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Apr 10, 2024, 7:55 AM
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middle east. China just loves it when the USA shifts most of our attention to that perpetual middle east flaming hornets nest. China knows that the more the US gets drawn into that region of fanatical lunatics, the less we pay attention to them.
Can't speak to it now - but back during our ill advised, democratize the middle east at the point of a gun Iraq invasion - just about every military satellite with enough fuel was repurposed to support Iraq/Afghanistan. As late as 2010 anytime the military needed satellite coverage outside that "war theater" we had to spend big $'s trying to find/rent space on some civilian satellites.
Kind of makes you wonder what the Chicoms got a away with while the USA had such tunnel vision on the desert Muslim crazies. If nothing else - they saw us spend 20 years of wasted war effort and throw $8+ trillion in the crapper by attaching ourselves to that middle east tar baby...
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The PNAC Plan... A lot of them got rich and then silently stepped away.***
Apr 10, 2024, 10:23 AM
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Re: Iran definitely thinks we had something to do with it
Apr 10, 2024, 7:34 AM
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I don't disagree with you on the failures of this administration but this statement:
Our military recruiting numbers have fallen off a cliff. Everyone knows why. How many of you would be willing to send your own children to fight for Ukraine?
No. Those numbers were plummeting well before this admin. There are bigger factors at play there.
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Military recruiting is a major problem that - if not fixed - is going to
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Apr 10, 2024, 8:42 AM
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force some hard decisions in the future.
The topic of military recruiting is not simple and worthy of it's own thread. There is no one single reason for the decline and while it was a challenge to recruit all during the Iraq/Afghanistan war period, recruiting finally went over a cliff starting in 2021.
Here's the readers digest version of the big items affecting recruiting:
1. Significant numbers of military vets have stopped recommending military service to the younger generation. Up until recently (haven't seen the up to date numbers), 80% of the all volunteer force had a family connection (military vet mother/father/brother/sister/aunt/uncle etc..) to the military prior to joining the service. For generations, advice from that familial connection has been the single most influential factor on a young person's decision to join the military. I won't get into the reasons why a lot of vets stopped recommending service in this thread but this alone has been devastating to military recruiting.
2. Plenty of jobs available in the US economy - if you want to work you can find many other options than the military.
3. Unfortunately, most young people in our society are not physically and/or mentally capable of meeting military standards.
4. Changes in our society that have affected our youth. These changes include their views of the country, our history, and patriotism that have now bled over into their willingness to serve in the military.
There is a lot more discussion and depth behind each of these issues but the downturn in military recruiting is not a simple "one issue" thing.
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any real self correction by the military institution itself in their own culpability in the decline in recruiting. One thing is for sure - if the Army continues to be 15,000 recruits short every year (the equivalent of one Army Division) we are going to be in real trouble within a couple of years.
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Re: Military recruiting is a major problem that - if not fixed - is going to
Apr 10, 2024, 8:46 AM
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force some hard decisions in the future.
The topic of military recruiting is not simple and worthy of it's own thread. There is no one single reason for the decline and while it was a challenge to recruit all during the Iraq/Afghanistan war period, recruiting finally went over a cliff starting in 2021.
Here's the readers digest version of the big items affecting recruiting:
1. Significant numbers of military vets have stopped recommending military service to the younger generation. Up until recently (haven't seen the up to date numbers), 80% of the all volunteer force had a family connection (military vet mother/father/brother/sister/aunt/uncle etc..) to the military prior to joining the service. For generations, advice from that familial connection has been the single most influential factor on a young person's decision to join the military. I won't get into the reasons why a lot of vets stopped recommending service in this thread but this alone has been devastating to military recruiting.
2. Plenty of jobs available in the US economy - if you want to work you can find many other options than the military.
3. Unfortunately, most young people in our society are not physically and/or mentally capable of meeting military standards.
4. Changes in our society that have affected our youth. These changes include their views of the country, our history, and patriotism that have now bled over into their willingness to serve in the military.
There is a lot more discussion and depth behind each of these issues but the downturn in military recruiting is not a simple "one issue" thing.
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any real self correction by the military institution itself in their own culpability in the decline in recruiting. One thing is for sure - if the Army continues to be 15,000 recruits short every year (the equivalent of one Army Division of Soldiers) we are going to be in real trouble within a couple of years.
Excellent comments
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Re: Military recruiting is a major problem that - if not fixed - is going to
Apr 10, 2024, 11:05 AM
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Agreed that it needs its own thread. It's a very complicated issue, and a world war may force our hands for tough decisions. Which brings us to this:
3. Unfortunately, most young people in our society are not physically and/or mentally capable of meeting military standards.
Yep. Like, not at all. The TikTokish entitlement nature isn't helping, and China now has a pipeline to our youth to subvert them against America and divide use even further.
IMO, it would take something worse than 9/11 to get them to join/comply with drafting and I think China knows not to be that stupid.
I can see why vets don't recommend it. Iraq was a pointless, terrible endeavor (I see you lurking, Murph) and did major damage to the morale of our military and any recruitment efforts.
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