Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal announcement takes US officials by surprise Thu 8 Oct 2020
"The announcement was, however, greeted enthusiastically by the Taliban on Thursday."
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Dude is forgetting rule 0 of ruling: keep the army happy.
They want to cut VA benefits too. Because they're so smart. 🙄
They want to gut Social Security, still got the boomer vote.
Yeah but they have been doing that and for the most part the votes keep coming.
I meant completely get rid of, not reduce. But votes will no longer matter anyway, so that's not really what's at issue.
That said, this sort of thing does not look good.
I don't think he is forgetting. This is about purging the military of people who would not be loyal to him.
Exactly.
I’m really wary of stories like this Tough talk is for the media - he’s a deal maker by nature .
So because they possibly made him look bad they’re going after the military leadership, apparently the democrat ones(?), for executing the trump administration’s maneuver to withdraw from Afghanistan?
They going to put Biden on the stand for treason?
They're probably going to execute him by getting a big guy with a big axe and a black hood to decapitate him on the Capitol steps.
I hope that every single time they answer any question during these trials that they mention they were following Trump's plan.
"We ran into unpredicted resistance while following President Trump's evacuation plan."
"While following President Trump's withdrawal plan, numerous difficulties cropped up that needed to be overcome."
Man does trump want to get back into Afghanistan? Because that’s moronic.
Not directly, at least.
Trump is many things, but he basically ran against the war in Afghanistan, though its possible the US gets pulled into something because of Israel.
Trump has this really weird attitude to the military. He decries war because it's wasteful (and because this stance plays well to a US that is going through one of its regular isolationist phases), but he also seems have a deep seated insecurity about the military. Like, it's really obvious that military personnel make him feel less manly, so he has to constantly flex on them by shitting on their traditions and attacking their leadership, but also by engaging in big flashy military actions like missile strikes and dropping "the biggest non-nuclear weapon in existence."
He hates war but loves doing war stuff. He hates the military but loves proving that he's better than them by any metric possible. The whole thing is fucked up in a really pathological way that makes me think the whole "private bone-spurs" thing really, really gets to him.
I just don’t see trump as especially manly anyway. I don’t really understand how anybody does.
Of course not. Because he's like the least manly person ever by any normal definition. Which is exactly why he's so fucking insecure about it.
This is also why his followers have to constantly reframe him as some sort of paragon of manliness (see Ben Garrison's absolutely ludicrous hagiography, for example), because they know, intuitively, that he in no way measures up to their supposed ideals of what manliness is and that bothers them a lot.
My circles tend to be full of "traditionally manly men" types
A bunch of eagle scouts, hunters, fishermen, mechanics of various types, construction workers, people who enjoy guns knives and axes, beer and whiskey drinkers, DIYers, veterans, woodworkers, blacksmiths, guys who like camping and sitting around a fire, getting together to watch the game, and damn-near every one of us sports a full beard.
None of us see ourselves reflected in Trump at all, he's the antithesis of all of the values we take pride in. He's the dude we only talk to at a bar because he's either being weirdly possessive of the pool table or creeping out some girls and we're trying to distract him while they make their exit. He's the neighbor we hope we don't run into because he's going to try to talk to us and every word out of his mouth is garbage.
And of course, those of us who are going bald just suck it up and shave our heads instead of whatever the fuck is going on with his head.
This description is is exactly how I feel about him. He only seems manly to people who never interact with real men, and are probably insecure about it. Guys who sit at some computer all day at their dads company and contribute nothing to society while their wives are fucking some other dude at home.
I hope they televise their show trials! Maybe they can make them a special Netflix event!
No.
Twitter exclusive.
You mean an X-clusive