Today's Environmentalists Are Really Luddites

[Thales750]

I certainly HOPE that the mexican cartels stop buying american arms - if only we solved the problem of military-grade weapons flowing down into mexico, the mexican government would then be able to stop the cartels for real. problem would be mostly solved., for a time at least..

I'm referring to the hundreds of billions worth of arms that NATO used to buy from us.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I certainly HOPE that the mexican cartels stop buying american arms - if only we solved the problem of military-grade weapons flowing down into mexico, the mexican government would then be able to stop the cartels for real. problem would be mostly solved., for a time at least..

OR Mexico's army could just come to us and buy military grade weapons for themselves?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I'm referring to the hundreds of billions worth of arms that NATO used to buy from us.

USED to? Gee, considering how NATO proved to be feckless, disallowing use of their air space for the attacks on Iran to open up the Straits of Hormuz for shipping... and Iran is threatening to have their proxies the Houthis block the path that goes through the Suez Canal, ... You'd think NATO might have been a bit more receptive.

 

[Thales750]

USED to? Gee, considering how NATO proved to be feckless, disallowing use of their air space for the attacks on Iran to open up the Straits of Hormuz for shipping... and Iran is threatening to have their proxies the Houthis block the path that goes through the Suez Canal, ... You'd think NATO might have been a bit more receptive.

LOL, Their going to prove to be very effective when they stop paying for American defense weapons R&D. This is indefensible Doc. Trump is destroying every relationship we have in the world and then he sends his little Goomba over to Hungary to prop up another Putin lacky.

Are you guys going to continue to give unwavering support until we are ruins? Or, is there a place inbetween where we could stop the decline?

 

[Thales750]

USED to? Gee, considering how NATO proved to be feckless, disallowing use of their air space for the attacks on Iran to open up the Straits of Hormuz for shipping... and Iran is threatening to have their proxies the Houthis block the path that goes through the Suez Canal, ... You'd think NATO might have been a bit more receptive.

Furthermore, most people in the world don't agree with the BS coming out of Pennsylvania Ave. Even most Americans don't believe it.
End Citizens United and Send Trump to an old folks home.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

We agree on Citizens United.

 

[Isaac]

OR Mexico's army could just come to us and buy military grade weapons for themselves?

I think stopping the flow of arms going south would be a more direct route to a successful end to the conflict rather than upping the ante and experiencing full blown war with all sides having the max arms - but you do make a point, perhaps Mexico could increase their arms too...

 

[Isaac]

USED to? Gee, considering how NATO proved to be feckless, disallowing use of their air space for the attacks on Iran to open up the Straits of Hormuz for shipping... and Iran is threatening to have their proxies the Houthis block the path that goes through the Suez Canal, ... You'd think NATO might have been a bit more receptive.

If Trump can't prove--with competent experts, not just his own deranged rantings on Truth Social--that the nuclear problem is a thing of the past in Iran, then this war was for no reason, unjust, and a failure. And so far he's done little to convince anyone that the nuclear problem is a thing of the past. As far as the strait, this was a problem HE created!

 

[Thales750]

If Trump can't prove--with competent experts, not just his own deranged rantings on Truth Social--that the nuclear problem is a thing of the past in Iran, then this war was for no reason, unjust, and a failure. And so far he's done little to convince anyone that the nuclear problem is a thing of the past. As far as the strait, this was a problem HE created!

My derangement syndrome is reaching all new highs.
It looks like "King" is no longer sufficient, now he is portraying himself to be the Christ.

 

[moke123]

now he is portraying himself to be the Christ.

And insulting the pope.

 

[Isaac]

He's one of those people that just digs in harder when proven to be wrong about stuff and that's a terrible quality. The more he senses that he's losing more and more support from the American people, the harder he digs in with the tiny percentage of people he has left what is it like maybe 10 to 20% now?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

And insulting the pope.

In this case, and with narrow construction, I think Trump was provoked. And unfortunately, the Pope might speak "infallibly" but he can still be wrong. When dealing with barbarians who use terrorist tactics, the solution isn't appeasement. That falls apart because the appeased parties see it as a success and can't wait to try to get more. We've seen it time and time again. When you face barbarians, you hit them with a barbarian stick - the kind that has spikes on the end.

 

[Thales750]

In this case, and with narrow construction, I think Trump was provoked. And unfortunately, the Pope might speak "infallibly" but he can still be wrong. When dealing with barbarians who use terrorist tactics, the solution isn't appeasement. That falls apart because the appeased parties see it as a success and can't wait to try to get more. We've seen it time and time again. When you face barbarians, you hit them with a barbarian stick - the kind that has spikes on the end.

But you can stay just shy of promising to annihilate their entire civilization.