Bad optics, at that. Hegseth just created the single largest opsec failure that the US has seen in over a century and used it to complain to career military generals that they look too woke.
If literally any other man tried this at any other time in American history he'd be in front of a court martial so fast your head would spin.
They are actively under fire from fascists, and the rest of the world is failing to step up and help. They need what they can get.
This is extremely cursed and it will definitely have strings attached that no one wants, but in a question of survival vs not, I don't blame them one bit. This is a decision centered around "we have to survive today to solve this problem tomorrow".
Get comfy, this is several hours worth of very top-shelf Star Wars parody. Auralnauts gives Spaceballs a run for its money as the premiere SW parody in my opinion.
Yes. Fascism must be stamped out internationally, and they're in hilariously bad condition after sending millions of soldiers to die in Ukraine. They lose an average estimated 5,800 more soldiers per month. This has been going on for years. Now (or soon) is definitively the best time to strike back and this opportunity will not arise again.
Would you do the same for Palestine which is in an even more dire situation then Ukraine
Yes. Fascism must be stamped out internationally. This one might actually be a fight, but the only reason it would be one is because of the massive amount of funding and arming that we did for Israel.
Yep. Republicans have the rabid following that they do because they accomplish tasks. Horrible, fucked up, stupid tasks that should never have even been tabled for discussion, but they get them done. 99% of Democrat messaging my entire lifetime has been "We're gonna do [X]! Oh, wait, no, we can't do [X] because we don't have a supermajority. Shucks. Well, we'll surely get 'em next time if you just vote for me again!" and people are, understandably, getting fucking tired of that. Especially when these same Dem voters watch every single conservative election cycle jam through abject bullshit without pushback. If they can get these things done then why can't you? Why can Trump loot my 401k and Medicaid directly into his own pockets but Obama couldn't enact universal health care? Why do we only ever ratchet toward the right?
Democrats have been chasing the mythical "centrist swing voter" for decades while voters have increasingly polarized into left vs right and the centrists have evaporated. Anyone who remains a centrist, now, isn't even going to go vote because politics clearly do not play any part in their lives.
We now have the additional problem of the rabid MAGA crowd being so vehemently anti-Democrat that not only would they never vote blue no matter what they were promised, they're statistically likely to go make attempts on the lives of Democratic officials or those running for office. So anyone who wants to run as a Democrat with an actual progressive platform are putting double the number of targets on themselves.
I think the only real way forward is a third party, one that can sidestep our red vs blue team sports mentality and say look, things are pretty bad for everyone right now. You don't have to vote for a Democrat or a Republican to make things better. You can come vote for us instead, we'll get this train back on track and you don't have to go tell the boys that you voted for a Democrat
...But then our problem becomes making this third party actually electable, which has historically been a huge problem in America.
And then nobody investigated it at all because we "couldn't be taken seriously about it" because of the huge Stop The Steal right wing uproar the prior election.
Don't trust those reported numbers, they are almost certainly fabricated.
Bad optics, at that. Hegseth just created the single largest opsec failure that the US has seen in over a century and used it to complain to career military generals that they look too woke.
If literally any other man tried this at any other time in American history he'd be in front of a court martial so fast your head would spin.