Cool that's not how it works now

We won't be the only ones

Good point. I did not look too far back indeed. It would be interesting to know at what point that shift happened. Was it because of a weapons upgrade, or the increased complexity of the state, or ... ?

I wonder if he'd be a better person if he'd seen Shrek as a child. I know Shrek is Dreamworks, but has anyone tried sitting him down and showing him Pixar's catalogue? Maybe something humane will click... I'd start with Inside Out, and then maybe freak him out a bit with Up.

Who am I kidding, he'd probably walk away in the end thinking "What was the point of that? I'm already trying to do Wall-E."

Hangars sitting dripped in oil, crying, "FREEEEDOOOOOOM"

Man i hope these fuckers die there.

When the sky darkens and the prospect is war, who's given the gun and been pushed to the floor and expected to die for the land of our birth, though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?

We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die. The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky, and we're always the last when the cream is shared out, for the worker is working when the fat cat's about.

Imagine dying to protect a paedo from the repercussions of his many decades of raping children.

Here lies Chad DudeMcHamburger.
Blown to pieces in Iran for a person who didn't, and still doesn't, give a shit about anyone, even his own children.
Rest in peace knowing that you were a distraction from the kiddie fiddling for a few days.
RIP.

Send the maga maggots first

"But then all of our leaders would be 'roided up MMA specialists!"

"And would that be any worse than our current arrangement?"

"..."

Grenading hopefully.

Slop

In a letter regarding that snub, Trump wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in January that “considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”

This is revolting, we are fucked. What a weenie

You think Trump could follow an entire film without falling asleep?

I doubt it

The suspension of disbelief that this giant orange milksop would ever enlist or fight for anything is too great, sorry.

Indeed, the useless racist neo-Nazi fucks voted for this BS. Will Krasnov encourage his sons to join the US military and fight, fight, fight?

"Weenie" is a pretty gentle choice of wordage.

The pedo sack of shit and his thugs strike again by murdering innocent people and wasting billions from the US treasury. All this shit to distract from the Epstein files.

...he knows the Nobel Committee is a private entity right?

Calling us "Euroids" is sure to build sympathy

I'm making a guess but probably about the point somebody in a perch half a mile away could snipe said leader who was obviously showing rank and "leading from the front" haha.

Hopefully some will do the right thing.

Many of them are in the military. I feel bad for the members that aren't and just want to finish their enlistment or retire.

"Handed to obsoletion, still, you feed us liiies from the tablecloth !"

That's so weird. Maybe it's just my generational experience but I could never picture the guy even so much as jogging. I just see a little rotund orange child pushing everybody over and trying his damndest to see up his classmates' skirts, getting caught repeatedly and never facing consequences.

But who knows, maybe at a certain point in the past that's unfair to a child ruined into a monster by every responsible figure he encountered.

i think he's pretty clearly demonstrated he doesn't understand the Nobel committee even a little bit

Oh gee, thank god I have an American telling me about this. I surely didnt already know this about my own country.

Anyway we arent running around shooting people in the head in the middle of the street so yeah, we arent even close to how fucked you guys are.

Yes, but that's a price he's perfectly willing to pay. Until the country in question bends the knee to the new emperor orangue - Lord President Trumpsky will slaughter as many people as he needs, American, enemy, doesn't matter... it's a money thing. Has nothing to do with countries - people like trump think they're above countries.

I hear he's going to start up the draft again. They need bodies to toss into the mulching machine. 18 (or earlier) to 40 eligible for the draft. Hillbilly shitkicking goat roping jerkoffs welcome of any age. You old fat guys make good sand bags.

Would an archer be able to do that? A spearman? Happened in 300 but I doubt that was accurate ;)

Oh my goodness we do?! What would we do without Americans enlightening us. I had no idea. Boy you guys are so helpful.

Here is the differnce. Canada has an entire government panel on Truth and Reconciliation and is actively working with First Nations to implement self-governance for Indigenous communities.

The US is trying to deport Indigenous Americans.

Just got a 3 day Reddit ban for writing "I'm team blood clot."

Damn pedo defenders.

The American military consists entirely of volunteers and their track record has been well-established for decades now. Anyone who signed up or re-upped after the War on Terror knew what they were getting into.

I disagree. Trump first term and Biden were anti new wars. That was 8 years of draw dawn (really longer than that as Obama started the draw down and ended the Afghan war). Enough time to convince a high schooler to join. Also, don't forget that the military is probably the best social mobility apparatus in the US. When I joined i was working at Walmart, when I got it I was making over 6 figures with a 4 year degree and no student debt. In 2020 I was at 10 years and made the decision to get out. Sometimes I think about how I would only be 4 years away from a pension right now, but I would be asked to commit war crimes; and I'm very glad I didn't try to stick it out. It's not as simple as you make it sound. Many of our troops are just people trying to get ahead in life.

Saying "They do it for the money" isn't much of a defence.

Oh yeah, and why do you do your job?

“I’m team blood clot.”

Yes! Team DVT here. I'm genuinely sorry Reddit couldn't see the charm in that, because I sure as fuck do.

It's not just to distract from the Epstein files, that's a sweet little benefit of course, but it's mainly just a continuation of the exact same US imperialism that has been ignored for nearly a century. They didn't need Epstein files to invade Afghanistan, or Iraq, or any of the dozens of nations subjected to US interventionism. The Epstein class have been fucking all of us over for decades, they just enjoy it with kids more.

The point is that history has shown us that people will wage war for profit even if it means putting themselves and their children at risk by being directly involved in hostilities.

The whole "we wouldn't have wars if rich people and their kids had to fight in them" idea just doesn't hold up to historical precedent. People with power are likely to start wars regardless, because they see it as a means of increasing their power.

To be fair it probably came from the fact that armies that protected strategic leaders at the expense of common soldiers were, over time, more effective. Military doctrine has a tendency to shift towards whatever works best, because the armies that don't adopt it lose wars and don't get to keep fighting.

He wouldn't understand why the grandpa doesn't fuck the kid.

Can someone explain to me why the Trump administration isn't afraid of a military coup?

The military is 95% Trump supporters

Strategic leaders seem more a thing of the past, few would suspect Trump of being strategic, so I think I'm misunderstanding the point here. If Trump were taken out by an enemy from afar, it would not impact the US strategy, right?

Having let this entire discussion sink in a bit, it might also have to do with the decreasing influence of religion on leaders. Where in earlier times honour before God was an incentive for a king to fight among soldiers, such considerations may have vanished since the Enlightenment. But I'm not a historian, just pulling this out of my behind, :)

With respect to strategic leaders I was more referring to officers than political leaders. Historically, the path from military power to political power was also shorter: A common way to get political power was to first establish yourself as a high ranking officer.

This whole pipeline of "protecting officers, because it makes militarily sense" via "high ranking officers often end up with political power" to todays situation seems a rather natural development to me.

"Well, it looks like Obama finally attacked Iran, fucked it up, and lost." - Trump, 2 years from now.

No, he doesn't know that, he's virtuosically stupid.