Message from @Shadow-Dragon-777
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I'm glad Mattis is going, he has served his purpose at this point and now it's time to focus on stuff closer to home.
I'd cut the aid to Afghanistan, they get more than anyone else
Foreign military aid is a strange thing. It's basically store credit. They have to use it to buy American-made weapons. By law, all of our military weapons, even of foreign design, must be made here. Includes Belgian products like the M249 and M240
Israeli Weapon Industries ended up building a factory here to build Tavors so they could use aid money for it
Israel gets about $3 billion. They run a very lean operation there. Note the Merkava's multirole capabilities, mass conscription even of women, and the horribly low pay for soldiers.
Over a billion to Egypt too
I don’t know how I feel about pulling out of Syria totally yet, and Mattis retiring due to it.
We need to completely pull out of that giant goatfucking shithole already! Why should we care what a bunch of child wedding investors think?
All that money spent there will be for the US for once.
Its thousands of miles away and you cannot reasonably fast forward clocks there by 14 centuries without just nuking it.
150 billion for Iran was 150 billion too much.
trillions for Iraq was trillions too much... it's time to come home regarding defense in that area.
I agree.
Well spoken. Also, Ragnorak you teach me much.
I'd like to keep Mattis even just as a morale boost. Everyone especially the Marines practically worship him.
But there are other warrior-monks.
Did Mattis actually state why he was leaving? Or was it the typical “anonymous source(s)?”
14 centuries ago, the things Muslims do were still considered barbaric.
The Emperor announced it.
🤵🏼
Which one looks more like Trump?
Ehh
There is a reason for being in Afghanistan but killing them all would be cheaper and save way more time
If you follow the money Bin Laden had we should have nuked Saudi Arabia
not doing the dirty work of of their royalty over a mis interpreted family matter from the 600's.
Now they are competing with the Chinese in buying up the US
So other than the announcement from Trump, there's nothing?
Bring them home!
Putin for Tsar.
Fuck everyone who talks shit about this man, right in their ass, until they get AIDS and die.
Putin loves his country, and we need a Putin in America.
I've been following that guy for a long time. Brilliant leader,LOVES his country, and has done a lot of things personally especially for sick kids etc
Does he support the soviets?
Putin is a bad ass.
No.
In 1990ish there was a failed coup to overthrow the communist government. That's when he resigned from the KGB.
Party hardliners felt that Gorbachev and others upstairs were too soft and moving away from the leftist ideal. Too much openness in politics and economy, etc. Like what happened in China after Mao died.
It ended up having the opposite effect. The collapse of the USSR.