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[ZeEa5KPul]

Unverified information, but it has been alleged that Daddy Trump was actually invited for the 9-3 parade.

But Daddy Trump made three demands to the Chinese side:
1. China must lift all restrictions on rare earth element exports to the US
2. China must import American soybeans
3. Xi Dada must allow Daddy Trump to have some on-stage time (i.e. give a speech) during the parade

Guess which one is the dealbreaker?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1964651233077235852

The court jester is valuable and beloved, but he does not perform while the king addresses the people.

 

[Temstar]

Unverified information, but it has been alleged that Daddy Trump was actually invited for the 9-3 parade.

But Daddy Trump made three demands to the Chinese side:
1. China must lift all restrictions on rare earth element exports to the US
2. China must import American soybeans
3. Xi Dada must allow Daddy Trump to have some on-stage time (i.e. give a speech) during the parade

Guess which one is the dealbreaker?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1964651233077235852

I saw a very good argument against allowing Trump to come, and it gets at the heart of the issue:
You don't want to project a G2/New Yalta Conference image

The whole deal with SCO and having both Putin and Kim and all the other leaders is to send a message of a multipolar alternative to US hegemony. Go to any videos of the parade with comments turn on and look at the commenters from Global South. They're all say something like "I'm glad such military might is in the hand of China and not US or allies, if they had this they would have used it on us long ago". People are inspired by the story of China going from agrarian society devastated by WW2 to modern superpower. The parade may be the inspiration of new generation of youths in Global South who dream of similar trajectory for their own country.

If you let Trump come and worse give him the chance to give a speech where he's going to go on about how US is the best and it was the US who saved the world in WW2 the message instead becomes "China is just like the US and now they're working out how to divide the world between them using military force". It's very much not a message you want to be sending.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

Maybe to hell with all of this. Let‘s create a true melting pot on Mars with a clean history.

What's with your obsession with melting pots? Why not just let the Red Planet stay red.

 

[GulfLander]

Allegedly the money Japan is going to invest in US, will be use to build generic pharma factories in US accg to Lutnick in the clip.

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[siegecrossbow]

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More on this piece of work. I didn't know Anduril specialized in marketing and less so manufacturing. Someone should suggest they name the next system YFQ-250

So the program will get cancelled twice because Trump diverts the money to Golden Dome?

 

[Temstar]

So the program will get cancelled twice because Trump diverts the money to Golden Dome?

Trump diverts the money to renovate Air Force One more like.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Unverified information, but it has been alleged that Daddy Trump was actually invited for the 9-3 parade.

But Daddy Trump made three demands to the Chinese side:
1. China must lift all restrictions on rare earth element exports to the US
2. China must import American soybeans
3. Xi Dada must allow Daddy Trump to have some on-stage time (i.e. give a speech) during the parade

Guess which one is the dealbreaker?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1964651233077235852

They should’ve let him go on stage to read excerpts from The Governance of China. Maybe he’ll learn a thing or two when he returns to the States.

 

[FriedButter]

Apparently, renaming the DOD to the DOW will cost at least a couple billion dollars.

It would likely cost billions of dollars to change the names of hundreds of Pentagon agencies, their stationary, emblems, plaques and other signage at the Defense Department, along with bases around the world. The expense could put a serious dent into the administration’s efforts to slash Pentagon spending and waste.

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[E100]

Apparently, renaming the DOD to the DOW will cost at least a couple billion dollars.

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I'm glad the yanks are blowing their cash on dumb shit like this. They could have used that cash on more important things, but alas.

 

[Wrought]

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More on this piece of work. I didn't know Anduril specialized in marketing and less so manufacturing. Someone should suggest they name the next system YFQ-250

Anduril has always been 90% marketing/10% manufacturing. And it's only 10% because they acquired existing manufacturers. Their business model is pure cosplay grifting. All hat and no cattle.

A few days ago, Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril Industries and a leading voice in the Silicon Valley defense-tech ecosystem, delivered a speech at National Taiwan University in Taipei.

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Framed as a call to action for Taiwan’s next generation of engineers and technologists, the speech urged students to apply their talents to national defense and help build a high-tech deterrent against the growing threat from China. But beyond its rhetorical appeal to patriotism and innovation, Luckey’s remarks recycled a familiar set of assumptions that have become gospel among defense-focused venture capital firms and companies spawning in Silicon Valley and making their way east to Washington to sell their products. These firms, flush with cash and influence, consistently misinterpret the nature of military power, how wars are actually won, and why military technology evolves the way it does. Luckey’s speech exemplifies the strategic naïveté that emerges when technologists mistake tactical disruption for strategic transformation.

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