THE TIDE OF WAR HAS CHANGED

lol Obama didn't want a war, he was 'weak', but there was no collusion. Obama just was a good man.
Trump, on the other end, often admitted that he admired Putin. And the Russians even brag, in their national tv, about how they interfered with US elections often, even trying to help Trump.

 

A "man with great charisma"? yes, 100%

A "man with a silver tongue"? yep, 100% on that too.

But, a "good man"? I disagree with that 100%. (except for being good at trying to destroy our military. I
say "good", because he pales in comparison the the 'great' decimation Clinton did.

 

He didn't want to destroy your military. He just wanted to stop your military to invade other countries without a real good reason.

 

You say that, but I don't know why.

Again, a foreigner telling us "How it really is/was", when we experienced it firsthand.
That last sentence has nothing to do with a "Battle Ready Armed Forces". How is depleting the armed forces
of armament a sane, or presidential way to keep an "invasion" (as you put it) of other countries?

I have a high ranking member of the Armed Forces and he has given me some insight about what happened to
our military under both Clinton and Obama.
Yes they did try, and succeed, in decimating our military.

Clinton's executive orders and policies had 1/3 of our offensive air power grounded because of lack of
parts to keep them flying as one of his major accomplishments. And he was proud of it.
Ships were locked in dock for some of the same reason. One other reason is that re-armament and general
re-stocking was continuously delayed, time and time again.

Obama stopped almost all production of ammunition. Both for small arms, and medium-large armaments.

You are too young to have lived through it, but under Obama, even hunters or target shooters had extreme
difficulty in buying ammunition. Even those of us who loaded our own cartridges could not obtain the
basic parts. (Gunpowder, bullets, primers, etc, all of which doubled or more in price, that is, if you could find it to buy at all).

The very first thing a General told Trump when he was in office is "Mr. President, we have no ammunition". (real quote)

Trump called him a "Very bad General" (again, real quote) in reference that he did not address Congress about it and do something
to fix that problem.

 

And while Obama "did" that, Trump was being paid by Putin to be a good lad and not interfere. And Trump played nice with dictators, to make them pretend they don't do bad stuff, so he would look good at home.

 

Trump dodn't "play" with them at all. Where do you come up with this stuff?
Hunter and Joe are the ones who "played along".
Trump wouldn't. Why do you think Putin waited until Joe was in?
And don't say something stupid like him and Trump were coluding.

 

Just lol. Yeah, sure, believe that if you want

 

Russian strike in Poland?
Crap, does this mean NATO will get in the war now?

 

Hi @Dane

I do disagree with you on a number of points.

I have seen you make a point of minimizing the knowledge, insights, understanding non-Americans have about the US. I don't believe it is the tautology you believe it is.

This is especially true if you were to take a stroll down just about any Main street in the US and ask anyone you see even some basic questions about the US, politics, World, etc.

Heck, even our former POTUS could not remember HE was the President of of the US Virgin Islands in 2017!

"I left Texas, and I left Florida, and I left Louisiana, and I went to Puerto Rico, and I met with the president of the Virgin Islands," he told the crowd.

You claim Clinton decimated the Military during his term. There was a significant reduction, though we still spent more money on our military than the combined total of the next several largest militaries in the World!

You used the word decimated, which has come to mean reduce significantly in a cold fashion (I just made that definition up on the fly), but, it is a term first used by the Roman army where, for example, if a soldier or soldiers did something really bad, but no one would fess up, the officers would line them up and every tenth man would be killed (deci = 1/10th) until someone came forward.

The massive gaff on your part is (off by 50%!) is that 15% of military personnel were let go.

Interesting bit here from The Brookings Institute:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/articles/clintons-strong-defense-legacy/amp/

Regarding Obama:

Condemning a Democratic president for lavishing money on social programs at the expense of national defense is red meat for Republican voters. And compared to the peak of war-time spending at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and the expectations that Pentagon planners once had for how much spending would grow — the defense budget is down, as Trump charged.


So is the American troop presence in both countries, necessitating far less funding than was needed at the peak of the war. Whether Obama has deployed the "correct" American troop presence or pursued the right overall strategy for those ongoing wars and the newer conflict in Syria, are themselves the subject of separate debates.

I personally believe your statement do not provide a deeper discussion as to what else was going on in the World, and here at home in the US.

 

Look at a lot of these older posts. Many, many times it was posted by someone outside the USA telling us exactly how things happened
when it was totally against what we lived through. You know this, you lived through it too.

Especially in the west coast. Neo has posted, and on YouTube there are many, where people who said they were voting for Newsom couldn't
even say why. A blue state far and wide. So it is mainly Dem., when asked why we celebrate the 4th of July, only one out of 50 could
say the correct reason of our Independence from England Rule. Most had no clue whatsoever. One guessed it was to celebrate the
middle of summer.

Yep, a gaff. Slip of the tongue? Meant to say Govenor. He had a few of those. But yet you didn't mention the many done by Biden.
Every time he gets in front ofthe mic.

1) I reported that by the person who experienced it all firsthand. O'Hanlon can sugar coat it (even he said Cintons admin. failed
in morale and destribution of workload). One reason of that was Clinton had put the kabosh on any good mechanical upkeep
of our equipment by redirecting the money to foreign affairs. No wonder O'Hanlon liked him and what he did.

2) I did no gaff at all. That is on you. Re-read my post. I never stated anything about the number of military personnel.
I stated 1/3 of our offensive AIR POWER was grounded due to lack of repair parts.
O'Hanlon said nothing about our equipment in his article. Since he is a spokesperson in foreign affairs, he isn't going
to give an opinion or insight as to what he may or may not know about equipment.

Everything I stated came from someone very close to me who spent over 40 years in the Air Force as an Officer who
oversaw Base Commanders and more.
As I posted before. He said our offensive weaponry was so lacking that if a large foreign country, backed by any of the
super, or near-super, powers knew this and were to attack us, we would have had a high probabilty of losing.
(He had higher clearance than all of our Senators, and most military Generals.)

He did say he could reveal this once it was declassified.
Get this, a "Launch Rediness Test" done of our silos revealed almost 50% failed and proved that a "No Launch" would occur.

He said it wasn't until Bush got in that all of that was reversed.

 

Not a military expert but why all the battl3s in Bakhmuth if its not a strategic city?

 

Heavy fighting in Bakhmut right now apparently

 

ICC put a warrant on Putin

 

About time just gotta go and collect the bounty lol.