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    Yeah, there's a few Republicans that have done a tiny bit of effort to stem the tide. Mitch McConnel's votes against Trump's cabinet picks is good but seeing as his refusal to impeach him for January 6th is why we are in this mess it's too little and way too late.

    The Trump gang's overseas disasters these last few weeks are just mind boggling. That the Republicans are not only just not opposing but actively changing their posture to support these decisions is telling in that the US as the guarantor for more or less global stability has ended. The era of regional Hegemon's is coming and Europe best rearm and do it fast if it doesn't want to be under Russia's sphere of influence.

    Wanting to 'own Gaza' eliminates the US a credible voice in the Arab world into purely just one that's pro-Israel. Demanding land from Denmark/Greenland and Canada is a threat to NATO allies that only the unopposable strength of the US within NATO keeps those allies from invoking Article 4.

    Hearing the Sec Def claim that the US Navy can't beat the Russians shows he's completely out of touch with reality, completely unsuited for his job and gets his information from pro-Russia sources and whatever Trump tells him without any push back. His wanting to cut the DoD in half would make the US have a military smaller than at any point since WW2 and essentially give up it capability to decisively commit force anywhere around the globe. My take is that the Trump admin wants us to just dominate North and South America and let the PRC and Russian Federation do what they like.

    Hearing the VP scold Europe for immigration policies and trying to oppose Russian disinformation at a conference that should be focusing on European security and have the danger of Russia as its focus is just mind boggling.

    The confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard probably means that our Allies sharing intel with us is going to be extremely limited and that Five eyes is probably unofficially 'four eyes' from now on.

    The not surprising betrayal of Ukraine is terrible as well. To have the starting position for negotiations be that the conflict is frozen on current borders, Ukraine gets zero security guarantees, and that it should sign over half its mineral rights to the US in exchange for nothing is just crazy and far beyond the bad that I'd been prepared for from this administration.
    The guard rails are off and any professionals in the US Govt. that try to keep the US on track to follow its own laws much less commitments to allies and partners besides Israel are likely to just be sacked the same day.

    I see no silver linings on anything and am getting more depressed each day. Wonder how long before I'm asked to have my US Army Officer Oath of Office changed to protect and defend the President over the Constitution which I will never swear to do and end my twenty-three years of service in the National Guard.
    Last edited by spmetla; 02-15-2025 at 03:35.

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