• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Let’s be clear. The US military is extremely competent. This is a fact whether you agree with what they do or not, they are scary good at what they do.

    Trump, a moron, is now in charge of said lethal force. He and his cronies just thought “We should capture (kidnap) that guy and parade him through the courts for propaganda points”. Then they called the military and said “get him” and the military was like “okie dokie, that’ll be 68 billion dollars please”, and got it done.

    That was the extent of it. There was no plan as to what to do afterwards.

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      Continuing the point that Trump is a moron, he was recently pushing the US to do more nuclear testing, and so I think it’s obvious that Trump really wants to nuke somebody.

      I think part of the reason he’s escalating international violence is because he wants a chance to deploy nuclear weapons.

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        He wanted to nuked a hurricane.

        He’s a fucking idiot and he totally wants to nuke something.

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          I wouldn’t mind handing him a very small satchel nuke. That was armed, on a delay just long enough to go into a bunker somewhere.

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        In my opinion, Trump is just having a 1980’s fantasy. Nukes, interventions in south america, etc.

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        Yup. The first time around he was told repeatedly by many people he can’t use a nuke. After awhile they let him use a MOAB. The largest non-nuke.

        Better hope Trump never finds out what happens when a nuke is used in the upper atmosphere. That was Starfish Prime.

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      Let’s be clear. The US military is extremely competent. This is a fact whether you agree with what they do or not, they are scary good at what they do.

      Yes. This is true. We did not lose in Iraq or Afghanistan militarily. We lost because of poor statecrafting ability.

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      I just read another article that the Cheeto wants 100 billion investment in Venezuela from the oil companiea and that the execs of those companies now say they never wanted this as Venezuela is “uninvestable”

      Kinda goes to show that they have no fucking idea what they’re doing and all this was just a diversion from the trump/epstein files

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      The loot whores that went in the next day to cut deals had a plan.

      Hire PMCs to “keep the peace” while they loot everything they can.

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    I’d compare it to a pigeon playing chess, but that would insult the pigeons.

    A rabid, STI ridden lab chimp with a fragile ego playing chess might be a better comparison.

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    I don’t think anyone, anywhere (except for the paid lackeys/courtiers on Bullshit Mountain) was ever going to make the claim that donnie dumbass has ever played 5 dimensional chess in any context whatsoever.

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    21 days ago

    Trump doesn’t play chess.

    He plays checkers.

    Against pigeons.

    Pigeons that can only shit all over the board.

    He still loses. Because he is in fact, that dumb.