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he U.S. Air Force’s capability has sunk to 70 percent, according to reports from Frontpage. Only 7 out of 10 planes were mission-capable in 2021. At present, none of the planes required to countering any significant aerial attack or engagement from the Chinese Communist Party or others are more than 70 percent capable.

Towards the end of the Trump administration, the U.S. military dropped the expectations set by the Commander in Chief. Defending this decision, an official from the Office of the Secretary of Defense reportedly told the GAO that the U.S. military had decided to move away from narrow goals for specific aircraft and was instead exploring “a more holistic view of readiness.”

Chief of Staff Charles Brown and Chief of Space Operation John Raymond suggested that the U.S. Air Force “should be a balance between mission readiness and ensuring people’s voices are heard,” when asked about U.S. Air Force focus on racism instead of readiness. Under Brown’s leadership, the U.S. Air Force has focused on mitigating unconscious bias, perceived racism, and expanding the diversity of the U.S. Air Force.

China has spent the last year comprehensively developing their air force using stolen technology and American-funded research. Many U.S. companies, including Pfizer, have partnered with military-linked Chinese organizations and military universities to further their research and development.
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The corporate branch of the US military has fallen.

Who will fall next, the Cult of Ka-Bar or the Grunt Shack or the Semen Patrol?
 
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  • Former Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman accused Trump and the GOP of emboldening Vladimir Putin.
  • He said the GOP had "blood on its hands" over the Ukraine crisis.
  • Vindman testified in Trump's first impeachment investigation.
  • Former Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who rose to prominence as a witness in Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, said the the Republican Party has "blood on its hands" for emboldening Russia to invade Ukraine.

    Vindman, who is Ukrainian-American, made the comments in an interview with Salon that was published on Monday.

    He said that Trump's refusal to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the factors that led Putin to act. He also blamed Trump for weakening the US internally with his divisive politics.

    He singled out Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Fox News host Tucker Carlson for criticism, highlighting their praise for Putin even as it became clear that he would invade.
    "The Tucker Carlsons, the Donald Trumps, the Mike Pompeos, they and other Republicans are going to have to own this issue because they are the reason that Russia launched this operation," said Vindman.

    Vindman, who served as the top Europe expert on the National Security Council, said that the domestic divisions exposed by the Jan 6 riot had likely been a factor in Putin deciding to act now.

    "Putin, like Trump, smells vulnerability and exploits it. Vladimir Putin perceived that the United States was distracted and vulnerable. He's been testing our resolve. He's been getting positive signals in that regard," he said.

    "There is blood on the Republican Party's hands. They were partially responsible for what is happening in Ukraine," he said.
    "Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump were basically as popular on Russian TV as they are here in this country. They're constantly being played there. What is the impression given? The United States is divided, and there's an opportunity there. So these folks now own it."

    Vindman was serving as director for European affairs on the National Security Council when he was subpoenaed in 2019 by lawmakers probing allegations Trump had abused his power in witholding military aid from Ukraine.

    Vindman testified that he thought a phone call in which Trump sought to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to produce dirt on Joe Biden was improper, prompting a backlash of criticism from Trump and his allies.

    Vindman is currently suing several allies of Trump, claiming they waged a campaign of intimidation to stop him testifying.

    He accused them of punishing him for his testimony by spreading lies about him and forcing him from his job, which ultimately led to him resigning from the military in summer 2020.

    In recent weeks he has criticized Trump and his allies for their stance on Russia, but also said that Biden had not done enough to deter its aggression.
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This nigger saying that mean tweets led Putin to sense the US is 'vulnerable and distracted' right now, and somehow that prompted the ruskies to make a move on ukraine right now, and not during the last four years they had their orange puppet in place

Oh and its also Tucker's fault too idk

No one seems to be able to provide a sensible answer to "If ukraine was Trump's fault, why didn't Putin attack while he was president?"
 
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One day, a democrat went "Those policies Trump made aren't doing anything, life is only good with him in charge cause of what Obama did!" and realized their voting base was actually stupid enough to believe it, and now we have people disregarding basic pattern recognition cause "things only suck with a democrat in charge cause of the guy before him" just like "things are only good under bad Orange man cause of Obama"
 
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No mention about how Biden and Milley handled the international ass showing that was the withdrawal from Afghanistan. That did more to embolden Putin than any shitposting on some random boomertech social media site.
 
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It really says something about the current state of the Democrat field that fucking Hillary is their best option. But I guess that's what happens when the higher-ups refuse to invest any time in training their eventual replacements for fear of being usurped before they're ready to leave, to the point that we now have a bunch of septuagenarians and octogenarians in power and nobody waiting in the wings. And whenever someone younger does get in, they're a batshit prog that the establishment doesn't want anywhere near the levers of power, partly because they only care about enriching themselves and not doing any of the prog agenda beyond lip service, partly because the progs make the entire party look bad.

Hell, look back at the 2020 clown car field. The Democrat machine and the media (but I repeat myself) were trying desperately to find a strong, young, preferably diverse candidate to rally around, to the point that you'd get whiplash following whichever candidate they were attempting to boost that week. But every one of their younger up-and-coming types failed miserably, like Robert Francis "Beto" "hell yes we're taking your guns" O'Rourke or "Mayor" Pete Bootyjudge. Kamala (not really young but not decrepit either) ticked all the diversity boxes, but after Surf Mommy torpedoed her campaign in one of the first debates, she fucked off before the first primary when her poll numbers didn't even break single digits. The establishment never forgave Tulsi for that, so they actively worked against her for the rest of the primary. I do still laugh when I consider that Tulsi managed more delegates than Kamala, though (one is greater than zero, after all). The rest are not even worth mentioning.

Then on the other side, you had the olds. I continue to doubt just how much Uncle Boiney actually cares about progressive causes; you don't spend decades in Congress without becoming a swamp creature, and he found the perfect grift as Redditors threw money at him hand over fist. Still, he could never be allowed to be the candidate, that would embolden the progs into thinking they were more than just useful idiots. Fauxcahontas played up her progressive bonafides, but let's face it, she's establishment through and through, even playing her part perfectly by staying in the race long enough to split the progressive vote and prevent Bernie from winning too many delegates.

Biden was without a doubt the establishment's last choice for a candidate, but with no other options after all the other failures, they needed a stooge to rally around. Thus, they played their usual games to ensure the people didn't really have a say in the matter. The other establishment goons were pressured to drop out, likely promised favors if they did (how else does Bootyjudge end up in the Cabinet?). Warren was told to stay in to act as a spoiler, and only suspended her campaign after it was clear Biden was going to be the nominee. Clyburn made that endorsement for Biden in South Carolina that killed Bernie's momentum after the first primaries. Add in superdelegates, and the establishment got their stooge.

But now, after a single year of utter failure, Biden looking increasingly corpse-like, and more and more Dems distancing themselves from this dumpster fire of an administration, the DNC is probably desperately looking for anyone who might fare even a little bit better. Kamala is hated even more than Biden, so she's a non-starter. And again, there are no up-and-coming establishment politicians, just batshit progs. Put it all together, and they really don't have anyone better than fucking Hillary.

The only question now is, are they crazy enough to try it?
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Fascinating that from CPAC, people in this thread were disbelieving in the Republican polls that put Hillary as the top candidate in 2024, but with some more thought put into it, it becomes more and more of a terrifying possibility.
 
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Fascinating that from CPAC, people in this thread were disbelieving in the Republican polls that put Hillary as the top candidate in 2024, but with some more thought put into it, it becomes more and more of a terrifying possibility.
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she's even a decent choice as a designated jobber like Jeb was supposed to be for her
so she suffers ANOTHER embarrassing defeat, at least it won't shit up theoretical chances of somebody young who could run again in twelve years
 
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These kind of statements are far more dangerous than the West showing random amounts of Twitter feeds and Instagram accounts of being pro-Ukraine and pro-Zelensky because he’s “sexy”.

Meanwhile, we have actual politicians on both sides of the political spectrum trying to gain something by threatening war with Russia, while claiming that Putin is a war criminal.
 
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Trust Me I Know said:
According to liberals, Putin owned Trump, so he didn't need to. Don't ask me to explain the logic.
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Trump is the worst puppet Russia could have asked for. He sanctioned a pipeline they wanted to build to increase their wealth and Europe's dependency on them, deterred them from realizing territorial ambitions, pulled out of a one-side nuclear agreement that would have given an ally of Russia in Iran potential for a nuclear weapon, and produced enough oil that the USA was a net exporter and lessened the USA's reliance on Russian oil.
 
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Psyduck said:
This nigger saying that mean tweets led Putin to sense the US is 'vulnerable and distracted' right now, and somehow that prompted the ruskies to make a move on ukraine right now, and not during the last four years they had their orange puppet in place

Oh and its also Tucker's fault too idk

No one seems to be able to provide a sensible answer to "If ukraine was Trump's fault, why didn't Putin attack while he was president?"
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They think the clapback of "He's a Russian Asset of course they wouldnt attack" is good apparently.
Cuz yaknow, nothing says puppet government than NOT using it when they get in power.

Like say, not using a puppet government to provoke some dumbass ruskie into a war as an excuse for literally everything bad you've done and to paint your opposition as commies - because you're that ass backwards.
 
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