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I live very close to one of the USAF's largest European airbases. While Trump was trolling European leaders about their security posture (by threatening to rel
by krona 7mo ago
I live very close to one of the USAF's largest European airbases.
While Trump was trolling European leaders about their security posture (by threatening to relieve them of sovereign territory which the US already has extensive access to) the USAF was already moving assets in the opposite direction to the middle east (this was mid-january).
It's fairly easy to work out what's happening if you ignore the orange man and listen to what serious people are saying, what they've briefed on, how they contradict one another, and where the assets are moving.
Obviously European leaders have to pretend to take the orange man seriously, but the reaction in the media was bordering on hysterical.
- enoint 7mo agoThis is exactly right. The liar who lies to control the narrative is lying again. The chance he’s lying is high but as adults the (likelihood * hazard) of an invasion is worth preparing for. The narrative he wanted to control was about Epstein. Denmark could have simultaneously prepared for that, but it wouldn’t be on OSInt Twitter.
- InsideOutSanta 7mo agoThe problem is that his "lies" and "jokes" sometimes suddenly turned out to be not lies and jokes.
- enoint 7mo agoMore precisely, propaganda is always fake. After verification it’s possibly true, but it still began fake. Trump could try supporting his utterances with fact, but he doesn’t. It’s rational to prepare for his propaganda to sometimes accidentally turn out true. Hence this relatively modest response. But the narrative most reliably supported by fact is that Trump hasn’t kept his story straight about Epstein.
- techterrier 7mo ago> It's fairly easy to work out what's happening off you go then, what is it?
- krona 7mo agoDunno, start by reading the national security strategy and count the number of times it mentions the words "Arctic" or "Greenland"? (hint: it's zero). Then maybe look at the Nato chain of command and who was interviewed and what was said in mid-Jan?
- enoint 7mo agoAmazing how outdated that document became. We all knew it was written for an audience of one, but still such transparent Emperors New Clothes vibe.
- techterrier 7mo agoim still waiting to find out whats happening...
- thesquandered 7mo agoPlease lessen the snark and dictate what you're saying here. Sources to published docs would be even more preferable.
- krona 7mo agoI'm not going to serialize the past 60 years of US foreign policy in to a pithy post on a meaningless internet forum. For free.
- techterrier 7mo agoaw man, I thought I would finally find out whats really going on :(
- tolerance 7mo agoWell, thanks anyway.