Fair, and good for Belgium. Didn’t Italy or Spain threaten this a while back? And walked it back like a week later?

I mean that’s good, but for this to be effective, it needs to be a lot more than just Belgium. All it means is a slightly longer trip to go around Belgium.

I mean, you’re not ENTIRELY wrong, but neither are they. The national guard has a long history of helping after disasters. I knew a ton of NG medics that were doing it for experience/college money to be EMTs, nurses, doctors, many of them already were. I absolutely can NOT say the same about MPs I’ve met. They’re just cops that were fit enough and smart enough to make it in, not having to settle for being civilian police.

Also, remember that for a lot of people, the military is their way out of the poverty. Many are just desperate to not go into homelessness or criminal enterprises. I’ve known a lot of people in those positions as well. It’s not like everybody raises their right arm just to kill poor people in other countries. Hell, while I was there, suicide bombers usually weren’t doing it for their ideology. Most were threatened by the actual terrorist groups. “Either you do this or well kill your whole family” kinda thing. And it wouldn’t be a nice poisoning, either. The whole community would be witness to the cruelty that would be unleashed if you told them “no”.

So sure, bash the military as a whole all you want. Even many positions within it. But for the individual, it’s likely significantly more nuanced than you’re acting. But yes… There are also a LOT of hate-filled shitbags in the ranks who did sign up to do exactly that, just not all of them.

I’m aware, I went to Iraq with a lot of em. But outside the initial invasions, there weren’t really any “front lines”. Even after the wars, national guardsmen were told they were here more for natural disasters, and if they were to be deployed it would be in defense, taking over for deployed regular army at their bases, while they were deployed to war zones.

I’m just saying of all the military, the national guard is the most likely to have good intentions. Even if they are naive and delusional at this point.

In the national guard? Their recruiting ads are more like swinging under a helicopter saving someone from a river. Or digging through rubble after a tornado. They’re not exactly the same kind of people. Think of the headspace being more like that of a volunteer firefighter. Yeah, they were dumb to think that’d be reality after the last 25 years, but that’s where their head likely was.

Dont make excuses for corporations spying on you.

I don’t believe it for a second. I thinks it’s a delay tactic like Putin uses to hold power over others. He’s notorious for making people wait. That or he had a medical emergency.

You know good and God damn well he doesn’t change his own diapers.

I’m officially nominating you to find out.

That’s just a description though, not your government name.

Oh no, hell burn the whole world to fire and ash if he doesn’t get everything his way. That’s why I say don’t be so sure it’ll be a slow process.

I don’t know that we can make that claim. There’s a historical accuracy to that thought process. But there are also examples otherwise. It’s definitely not as clear and etched in stone like some say. There’s not a whole lot that our society shares with societies of the past. We have more guns than people, and obviously it’s a lot easier to take out a ton of people with an AR-15 than a sword. If all the rest of the world turn their backs on America at the same it’ll hurt a bit for the world, but it’d be the end of America rather quick. Beyond that, anti-vaxxers, climate change, social strife, there’s just no way to guarantee what you say.

Looks like he’s ahead of schedule of the fallout universe.

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🎵"some say the end is near, some say we’ll see Armageddon soon"

Not milsats, as they’re shielded.

Had to buy a wife. Simple as that.

Or some low level christo-fascist management dude at the heritage foundation, that knows nothing about anything had an idea. And now Americans will pay their lives and waste of taxes.

Agreed. This is the moment.

It’s not like we put us in this position. We were put in this position with no choice and our backs to the wall. The fuck else option do we have?