KEY POINTS
- Defense stocks dropped sharply Thursday afternoon after President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. could massively cut defense spending.
- Trump has sent mixed messages on military spending throughout his 2024 campaign and in the early days of his presidency.
Who’s to bet a load of shares get bought up, then suddenly this announcement is rescinded?
Everybody was panic buying ! Those stocks were fast as lightning!
In fact the buying was a little bit frightening.
But AI had expert timing.
Everybody was kung fu fighting.
Work it baby, work it. Insider trading on steroids, or rather Adderall.
He wants to annex Canada with half the war machine funding?
He is literally a fucking moron.
No, he wants to annex Canada, Greenland, Gaza, and Panama.
And then she’ll be surprised when they fight back.
Invasion of Canada doesn’t need much military. It’s just a fact.
Crippling Canada’s military would be relatively easy. Holding the country would be absolutely impossible. It’s enormous geographically and occupation requires around 20 to 25 soldiers per thousand residents.
We would have to dedicate a cool million soldiers for the 40 million residents of Canada. The US had only 450k-ish army members in 2023, so that would be difficult.
Not to mention triggering Article 5 for the rest of NATO and shattering every defense agreement at once. You know, Putin’s wet dream.
If there’s going to be a world war, I’d prefer to not be on the side of Russia and China.
On the side of China? Their side is is sitting it all out and letting the U.S. and Russia devour themselves while picking up all the trade deals, currency holdings and eventually all the economical losses that will make it the strongest economy I’m the world by far. What do they have to do? Keep giving a nudge here or there, and watching egomaniacs devour their fellow citizens and the citizens eventually fight back to regain their freedoms. China wins every time Trump opens his mouth. But I don’t feel they are on the side at all, just happily enjoying the little puppeting they need to do.
Didn’t they and Britain burn down the white house in the war of 1812? They seemed pretty fierce in WWII. As an American, I suggest we not fuck around, lest we find out. I’m much happier with Canada as ally, thank you very much. From wikipedia:
By the end of the war Canada had the world’s fourth largest air force,[6] and third largest navy.[7] The Canadian Merchant Navy completed over 25,000 voyages across the Atlantic,[8] 130,000 Allied pilots were trained in Canada in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. On D-Day, 6 June 1944 the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landed on “Juno” beach in Normandy, in conjunction with allied forces
You guys are so enamoured with Nazis you forget Vietnam.
Previous losers willing to kill millions for a win.
And Afghanistan. Which definitely happened during their lifetime.
Putler told Trump to disarm the US lol.
If he actually tried to follow through, there would actually probably be a military coup.
In America.
I don’t like it when I agree with the general notion of something Trump says or does. Makes me feel dirty.
Broken clocks. If its any consolation he could be, variously-
- Floating random shit. Common Trump talk.
- Actually wanting to weaken the U.S. militarily, to the benefit of his leash holders.
- Fishing for bribes.
3 is my guess. Look at tiktok
Wait until you see how i gets halved. Im willing to bet they axe the VA, any scholastic programs, ROTC et al as most policies are about destroying America.
Thats the magic of trump though, when he’s vague about things he can sometimes spin them as something agreeable. My guess is he’ll keep the regime change bullshit and nix stuff like burn pit procedures, ukraine support, and veterans benefits
He’ll direct the savings to creating a new internal police force.
Well, couldn’t the M1 Abrams be replaced with cheaper Tesla cybertrucks?
“Sir, half of our swastitanks have burned to the ground.”
“Who attacked them?”
“Attacked?”
It just rained sir.
Please keep fucking with the defense contractors, surely they won’t take any drastic measures against you
There was a post just a day or so ago that was basically saying it was time to buy Raytheon:D
It doesn’t need to be halved. They just need to figure out where a large portion of the money goes, since they can’t seem to account for it.
I had the “wait, a good thing?” reaction too.
But thinking about potential underlying motivations, it makes complete sense that the compromised traitor holding the reins would want to weaken the military at the same time as destroying the government.
Or maybe it isn’t to help other dictators, and he just wants the opportunity to weed out more people who are loyal to the constitution.
This may signal he is getting pushback from the military which is a very good thing. If he is serious about Canada and Greenland he will need a strong military. It makes no sense to start cutting the budget now.
Refusing unlawful orders is always cool and moral.
Based???!
Could it be a power move to pressure the military and try to have it approve fascism ?
also: defense in USA ~3% of GDP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
The United States of America (USA), (…) is a country (…)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
2024 GDP $29.168 trillion
2023 defense ~$0.8 trillion (~2.74% of GDP)
…so, above the 2% NATO target.Good time to buy then. He already pledged to increase funding to Israel. Just need to research what company supplies the most weapons for them and invest there.
Sure, piss off the industrial war machine. WCGW?
you think hes not gonna just send nukes and sharpie 51 over it on the map?
In case y’all forgot Trump’s last term, his general pattern is to constantly announce insane plans and only follow through on a fraction of them. Cutting the pentagon’s budget in half is one of the distractions. Some General will dandy himself up in his class A and jingle some blueprints for a useless wunderwaffe and the defense budget will go up.
