• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      We won’t be sending in ground troops this time. So there can’t possibly be a quagmire like we had in Iraq or Afghanistan. And Trump promised money to any ship that gets attacked in the Straight of Hormuz (which I’m more than confident that he’s good for) so trade will pick back up again as soon as the smoke clears.

      Honestly, I think he did a heck of a job and I’m excited to see what kind of incredible progress he can achieve for American foreign policy in Cuba next.

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    The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’

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    I don’t talk to my friends this casually.

    If I said “very complete, pretty much” I’m pretty sure they’d bring me to the hospital for a stroke.

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    With their nuclear capability ‘completely obliterated’ for the second time this year, Iran is now three weeks away from a bomb. Whew, world saved /s.

    On the other hand, we can start talking about Trump-Epstein again - especially since the dow is well under 50k.

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    “They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country.”

    He’s gonna nuke them, isn’t he?

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    So what did we accomplish?

    …What did we go in to accomplish, for that matter?

    I’m not talking about distractions, that’s fine to discuss, but as far as I’m aware, I’ve not heard any justification for why we went in and that we’ve reached any objectives.

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    Ok fine you’re the hero and I’ll bestow upon you the bestest war guy better than fifa award that I just made up now please stop attacking sovereign countries and release the entirety of the files

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    Well fuck. I was worried it was going to drag out for far too fucking long, but now that the orange turd has said it’s over I’m absolutely certain it’s going to drag out for far too fucking long.

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    Never mind about that, he changed his mind again.

    After comments that seemed to suggest President Trump was looking towards an exit from his war with Iran, Trump said in a speech to Republican lawmakers in Florida that “we have won in many ways, but not enough. We go forward more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long-running danger once and for all.”

    The enemy cannot anticipate your actions if you have no plan! No doubt Sun Tzu would have said something like that if he were American.