Twix 23

I’m all for it but how does an executive order bring them back?

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Thanks, Twix. What did y'all think of Bremer at the time?

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I was 20 years old:lol:

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you already get the strategic benefits without owning the territory, formal ownership is almost always a downgrade. Soft power lets you project force, base assets, and shape outcomes while offloading costs and liabilities. Once you “own” a place, you also own its politics, courts, infrastructure, social spending, and international headaches. That is not free power, it is a permanent bill. From a cost perspective, soft control is far cheaper. Bases and defense guarantees cost money, but annexation multiplies that cost indefinitely. You move from paying for a base to paying for roads, healthcare, pensions, disaster response, and governance. Greenland stops being a strategic asset and becomes a budget line item with voters attached. Flexibility is the biggest advantage. Soft power is adjustable. You can expand, contract, renegotiate, or exit as conditions change. Territory acquisition is rigid. Treaties can be rewritten. Borders cannot without drama. Soft power lets you adapt without being trapped by sunk cost fallacy. If you already have access, leverage, and strategic control, ownership adds cost, reduces flexibility, damages alliances, and creates liabilities you do not need. Power you can adjust beats power you have to maintain forever.

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If it’s all such a hassle then why is Denmark and the rest of the EU all up in arms about it? You’d think they’d be happy to offload the dead wait.

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don’t believe He ever has been, but when it was soothing for his supporters to pretend that he was, they did. Isolationism had been a pretty large component of the MAGA attitude until it was necessary to shift. It’s the same with the pedo stuff. MAGA was really vocal about their anti-pedo stance until it began to look like Trump’s administration was going to protect pedos. Now it’s all “pay no attention to the child rapist behind the curtain”. No real principles whatsoever.

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So you don’t necessarily have a problem with Trump’s policies, just his supporters?

When has Trump ever been an isolationist?

I think a lot of ME countries that put bases are in wouldn’t let us launch sorties from their territory.

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I hope there is something going on behind the scenes that are delaying it.

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there are reports that Trump called off an attack at the last minute at the behest of Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia,

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These are the countries we would’ve launched airstrikes from and would’ve needed their approval to use their bases. With no aircraft carrier in the region it really limits options to long range bombers from the states and cruise missiles from whatever naval assets were in the region.

They said all the wanted was to be able to get married. We gave them an inch and they should all nine inches up our asses with all the tranny nonsense, cake baking insanity and cross dressing for children’s story hour.

Now most people realize the gay marriage thing was a mistake.

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I believe they've landed a couple mars rovers and did the whole James Webb telescope thing in the last 15 year. Exceedeing pretty much the entire history of the shuttle, except in the tragedy category.

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OSIRIS-REX was a pretty cool mission too.

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I’m glad he’s focusing on the really important issues that affect every day Americans.

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I doubt this took too much of his time.