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chainsaw

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  1. Also would have accepted Ben Kingsley
  2. It's as if you never read The Art of the Deal
  3. She looks like she's aged 15 years
  4. He's taking a break from treatment to officiate a dick-measuring contest between Hunter and Jack Reacher https://deadline.com/2025/06/joe-biden-reacher-alan-ritchson-1236435604/
  5. His body is well enough for long distance international flights. That's a good sign, clot-wise, isn't it? Please someone assure me he will be fully healthy for his entire career.
  6. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/kristi-noem-hostpital
  7. Mhm. You can't even give a TLDR? I recall many posters in that thread citing Peter Zeihan with approval. Do you consider him also to be a puddle brain?
  8. The chickens always come home to roost. Our intervention in Central America from pre-2000 is still the driving force behind one of the top domestic issues of the 2020s.
  9. Let's hear your galaxy brain take. The Obama deal was bad for Israel?
  10. We have not sent our own troops to Ukraine, but they were invaded so it's not the same thing. Biden's team viewed the Ukraine war as a low cost way to field-test some US weapons, and a way to weaken Russia. I don't know enough about Russia to say if someone better is ready to step up in Putin's place, but I don't think direct American intervention should be the way to accomplish that. I personally do not object to the support we're providing to Ukraine. I don't believe Israel's leadership is good, but that doesn't mean the US should attack Israel.
  11. At this point you're basically just wishcasting that the power vacuum would magically be filled by someone kind and aligned with US interests. History teaches that US intervention is almost never beneficial for the targeted nation. We have never been "greeted as liberators." There is almost no upside for getting involved.
  12. I did not say it was necessarily better for Iraq. I'm saying the world is better off without Saddam. We don't know of anyone in the bullpen for Iran, so how can anyone say that there's someone better waiting to rule it? And if that person had existed why would we have waited so long to intervene? What do you know that Obama, Trump, and Biden didn't know?
  13. Some people interpret facts as criticism and cry "CR" when they feel attacked. You are 100% correct.
  14. International relations are not a black and white thing. Some of our "allies" do unspeakable things, including genocide. Obama made a deal with some bad people, and Trump tore it up. It's possible to strike a good deal with bad people, and Trump was on the verge of doing that so that we could get closer to stability in the region. If we learned anything from Iraq, it's that there are high costs and long lasting consequences for trying to be the hero on every corner of the globe. Yes the world is better off without Saddam, but was the invasion truly necessary to get rid of him? Could that not have been achieved with soft power? With diplomacy? By propping up his internal adversaries? The goal was to prevent Iran from having nukes, and I fail to see how or why American intervention is the only way to achieve that. If you believe that's the same thing as "cheering for the bad man to stay in power forever," then that says more about you than it does about me.
  15. True, but arguably CR.
  16. Are you not paying attention? We fucked up in Iraq and we fucked up in Afghanistan because we had no clear plan for the country after toppling its leadership. We have no idea who will step up or if they will be better or worse. Without a plan, we're signing up for another longterm stabilization/supervision engagement that we can't afford.
  17. All we want is for Iran not to have nukes. Obama got that done. Trump was going to get that done again, until Israel said hell no we want to drag the Americans into a war. I won't go too CR because this is DT but this will not be good politics. Much of his base has loved ones in the military and don't want them in harm's way.
  18. Have you forgotten what timeline we're in? Russia actually believed Kyiv would fall in a matter of hours. These "military operations" have a way of going into double overtime.
  19. They are bad, but nothing better is in the bullpen. We should have learned this from Iraq and Afghanistan.
  20. Nobody has an appetite for war with Iran. Iran was abiding Obama's deal, and they were actively engaged in peace talks with Trump's guy. Absofuckinglutely they have a bad reputation, but to my knowledge they didn't invade Ukraine or attack anyone else without provocation. The unwashed masses on X need more analysis than "Iran bad," even if you personally might think it's as self-evident as OU sux.
  21. More likely that there's a higher percentage of people working in law enforcement. I bet nationwide a law enforcement household correlates to a Trumpist household by over 90%
  22. Not a peep from Little Marco. He's probably seething inside.
  23. So we have no idea where he is then
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