solarz
Brigadier
What's so shocking about Trump running off his mouth?
The intention is for these pure huwhite women to go home and immediately start making more aryan babies.
Crustaceans regenerate limbs, maybe they ripped off its legs and are testing the new ones.The intention is for these pure huwhite women to go home and immediately start making more aryan babies.
Incidentally, looking at all of these USAID programs and it's clear a lot of it just became a way for government bureacrats and special interest groups to fund their fetishes and autistic hobbies. What was with the study on prawns on treadmills?
Without political control of the payment’s heart, the Trump administration and Elon Musk must chase down every agency and bend it to their will. They are in the process of doing that, but bureaucrats can notionally continue to respect the law and resist their efforts. They are helped in this effort by court injunctions they can point to. This is bureaucratic trench warfare. But if Musk and Trump can reach into the choke point, the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, they could possibly not need agency cooperation. They can just impound agency payments themselves. They could also possibly stop paying federal employees they have forced on paid administrative leave, coercing them to resign. These possibilities are what every Treasury expert I’ve talked to instantly thought of the moment they read the Washington Post reporting and are incredibly alarmed about.
Sure they're a major economy and a fellow great power, but largest peacetime military does not make you militarily the strongest.Can you please stop your ultra-nationalist bullshit here? Like it or not, America is still a major economy with the strongest military in the world by a long shot.
They didn't have a choice. Any other option would have ruined their own economy. Hell, even the limited trade war by Trump has deeply fucked over them.Treating it like it's India is just asking to be blind-sided. No nation can be underestimated, especially not America.
America has a lot of influence on the world stage and has a lot of technology and IP that China still relies on. Less and less each year, but it's still there. China should be lucky that America was slow to wake up to the China threat and didn't go for the industry ending sanctions right away,
Why would China care? Firstly US gets like 95% of their semiconductors from Asia (including China). This isn't a field US has more advantages in, besides being carried by SK and Japan.but instead in piecemeal portions that allowed China to adapt. You think China would like it if America started to strangle every industry the same way that they did semiconductors? Especially western dominated areas like aviation?
Again confusing largest standing peacetime military for most powerful.And 11 nuclear supercarriers. Never forget about those.
Do you think they even can? I guess it's possible if they use NGAD and remaining F-35 funds.You say that, but I bet your tone will change real fucking fast if America starts to stock up tens of thousands of anti-ship missiles within the 1st and 2nd island chain.
They can't, China created a nuclear alt account (NK) whose near sole purpose is nuking them first if they ever tried to escape China permanently through nuclearization.Or if they start pushing SK and Japan into getting nukes.
Just in NATO, not the world. Why would Putin care? The enemy has always been subject to being a laughing stock in the territories of the fighters. Look on YouTube how much skits and songs there are from Arabs about Israel for example.Stop being delusional. America is still a serious threat, despite Trump's attempts at burning the nation to the ground.
Becoming a laughing stock of the world,
You're not seeing the greater point of the war then. Not only are we ensuring there's no oligarchal influence left in Russia, it's also about positioning 10 000s of missiles aimed at the West's heartland. About preemptively killing 100 000s of westerners before they can begin to start threatening Asia.lose tens of thousands of men, become stuck in a 3 year long war with no end in sight and have a decent wartime economy that will struggle as soon as the war ends? When Putin could have waited for Trump to take office in 2025, dismantle NATO and take Ukraine with much less international support. Truly 4D chess here.
Rolling towards the 4th Reich.War on DEI (anything but WASP) continues into the military.
Recently, the actions of the DOGE department have indeed far exceeded everyone's expectations. Starting with the payment system, their approach completely aligns with Musk's first principles thinking, which is truly impressive. I believe the impact of this move will definitely spread across the ocean.
However, for Chinese people, this feeling is all too familiar; every corner of our history is filled with accounts of reforms intertwined with the concentration of power. If DOGE manages to intervene in all the federal government's IT systems (according to the latest Executive Order)...
Then in Chinese terms, this so-called DOGE can be understood as a version of a Grand Council plus the Jinyiwei, but without absolute power. From a political science perspective, it’s the same idea:
By concentrating power within a small group—or even within a “public-private hybrid” institution lacking checks and balances—in the name of increasing efficiency or even eliminating corruption, the disruption of the existing power structure is bound to create a power vacuum, which in turn will give rise to a new, invisible power bloc that stands above the original system.
American history isn't lacking in similar stories—Hoover's FBI is one example. Of course, I believe that the U.S.'s well-established system of separation of powers and checks and balances can, over the long term, rein in this "Grand Council plus Jinyiwei." However, I also believe that the impact of such a lower-dimensional attack will make it very difficult for the established forces to mount an effective counterattack in the short term.
If this trend continues, it remains to be seen whether Musk's "idealistic" actions might eventually be transformed into Trump's "realistic" weapon in his quest for power.
But what we know is that throughout history, extreme realists who loudly proclaimed the overthrow of the old order have ultimately brought about imperial rule and disaster. They all used idealists as fuel to set the world ablaze—from Napoleon to Mao Zedong.
War on DEI (anything but WASP) continues into the military.