That’s a useless show of disrespect. People we need in place would be fired for taking over one news cycle. Worse it could kick a purge of officers into high gear by giving ammunition to conservatives that the military has “gone rogue”.

Greenland is hard. They’d likely do it. It’s a legal order under the War Powers Act. They would probably do it in a completely different way than going full explodey like they did with Iraq, but it would happen.

Now they could drag their feet, super telegraphing their moves, effectively giving Congress time to use the WPA to shut it down. But it’s not guaranteed by any means.

Canada would see mass desertions though. And Mexico or Panama are actually the most likely targets. The military would invade those places without a second thought.

Because they aren’t robots.

In this case there was no real issue. He was trying to get free advertising out of the court. But also, we’ve had animated avatars and text to voice for over a decade now. This isn’t an AI use case.

This whole thing is a joke right? A put up between the newspaper, cops, and park management?

I’m a lot closer to being an expert than most people and that’s a war crime.

Why? Isn’t that the easiest lowest hanging fruit possible?

If I’m a politician and I’m putting tariffs in place, the one place getting annihilated by a 1,000% tariff is the place I’ve already sanctioned into the ground. Is that performative? Maybe. Would it prevent headlines like this? Yep.

Makes you wonder what’s going on in the swamp.

Tell me with a straight face that Schumer isn’t celebrating this.

Haha yeah I’ve always said the real test is the 12 mile march in 3 hours. If you can’t walk, you ain’t infantry. But the Army, (my ex), in all it’s wisdom wants to measure all this other stuff. I could get on board with a weighted drag and a sprint too but it’s really not necessary.

Wow I am officially old. Link to old ass memes here.

Yeah, we did also practice other ways but it wasn’t a requirement. Our requirements were grinding endurance stuff like pack all your stuff and carry it 12 miles. Then do a running rifle qual. (You’re running until it’s your turn to shoot, or really more like shuffling in this case)

And the women were certainly hard, they just didn’t get the same level of training because civilians couldn’t handle the thought of them fighting. Which is ridiculous. They ended up on the front lines anyway, just less prepared.

Yup. Every soldier needs to be able to fight. The last 20 years has seen enemies actively avoid attacking combat arms units and going after traditionally non combat units wherever possible. That and the ability to press anyone into the frontline is why everyone needs to be able to pass the test.

Also, to make things even more interesting, combat units already hold their soldiers to a soft standard that’s higher than non combat units. You won’t get discharged for not meeting it but you will do extra exercises, get held back on promotions, and not go to schools for additional skills. If they thought their women weren’t making the standard they literally just wouldn’t promote them, and they’d highly encourage them to change jobs.

I’m not going to down vote you over it because most people outside the military don’t know. But the Army just spent 10 years making a fitness test that more closely resembles combat tasks. Hegseth is not saying this in good faith.

That’s good for a few paychecks in the black couch industry…

They still only have 20 percent of the country. After years. At this rate they will run out of people before Ukraine runs out of territory.

Europe has 450 million people. It will be easier for them than Russia with 146 million people. Stop spreading FUD.

As we all know, repeatedly drafting several divisions worth of men is a sign you’re winning the war…

Oh the current standards in the US military are absolutely enough to make sure women can carry their load. Hegseth is a massive misogynist who believes women shouldn’t be in combat for all kinds of unscientific reasons.

Unconscious person in a building gets dragged out. But your gut feeling is right. A fighting unit needs 3 times the people behind it keeping it going. And units already routinely send the people they don’t want to use on the front line to fetch food and whatnot for everyone else.