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    How to win at war:

    1. Start negotiating with foe
    2. Bomb foe during negotiations
    3. Declare victory, tell friends to fuck off
    4. ?
    5. Beg friends for help, because you have lost both tactical and strategic control of the situation. Threaten partners for not helping.
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        Then it was a stupid plan even from an electoral point of view.

        I have an ongoing half joking bet since the 2nd day in the war that Trump will be talking about the parties in the island to distract people from the side effects of the war by June.

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        Double down on the distraction.

        Ooh look, we’ve got Marines to deploy!

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        Sending the price of gas to the stratosphere, replacing the petrodollar schema by petroyuan, increasing the military spending by a huge margin, and antagonizing the entire world aren’t enough of a distraction to guarantee people won’t be thinking about it in the elections.

        But doing that with 9 months of time for it to impact all the business and family budgets in your country is.

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    I live in New York City.

    Besides the greed, the pedophilia, the racism, and the narcissism, the biggest problem people here have is he sheer, overwhelming stupidity.

    Writer Fran Leibowitz put it best. “You don’t know anybody as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

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      The US war machine is expending itself like a senior citizen at a strip club.

      It’s awful to witness and truly miserable for everyone involved. But give Americans a week and they’ll stumble back in clutching another fist full of Social Security cash to do it again.

      You want to call these goons out as bad at strategy or wasteful of precious natural resources. But neither the US nor Russia seem to have a shortage of blood or treasure they’re willing to throw away for another cheap thrill. This is it. The twilight of empire. What happens if they don’t finish all over Central Europe and the Middle East, like they’ve been lusting after for 40 years?

      You think Trump or Putin care what happens to their kids? Their grandkids? Nevermind all the young people their explosions of pent up unrealized empire ruin in the process.

      This is what all those decades of Cold Warring was meant for. The grim harvest we’ve been growing since Truman dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and kicked off 70 years of intercontinental hate.

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    “You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all, because we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil.”

    -Trump 3 weeks into the war he decided to do

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    I think it’s more NATO get yer fuckin act together. We don’t even need this oil you do.

    This had to be done, so help police this straight now that the war is done, because if you can’t defend an asset you can’t own it.

    This is governance 101 and if you don’t have a monopoly on power you definitionally are not a government.