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Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.

Ok, let's sum this up. The thing that gets to me about the Signal chats is the Vice President of the US talking about bailing out Europe. There was a comment about how only the US could drone a building, which is wild, I feel like I could probably throw a bomb at a building using the contents of most kitchens. Sure - maybe the US's bombs and drones are fancier - but I think we need to zoom in on that.

The US administration thinks that it's getting value for its money on defense. There's a theory that the US military budget is being spent on getting stuff rather than mostly just a slush fund for defense contractors. But this leads them to believe that they're the most powerful people in the world and that they're as much stronger than any other country by the amount more they spend on weapons.

And because of that they think that Europe couldn't stop terrorists. There's a belief that people aren't shooting drones at civilians because they *can't*, and they're mad that people are relying on them to fire drones at civilians. They believe that everyone else is just ungrateful for their droning of civilians. They can't envision a world where blowing up innocents in an apartment building is considered a bad move.

Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.

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silverwizard
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This is why he wanted Zelenskyy to say thank you! This is why the defense budget of NATO is so important! This is why they call him the Leader of the Free World! This Propaganda matters!
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im glad you touched on spending as a poor metric of military strength/investment. Because I think about this a lot. I don't know if Europe is a good example, bc I feel (don't have actual data) that a lot of defense spending in the EU is contracts for private industry, as well. But China for example... China is definitely spending 0% on the profit margins of private industries. And that shit is going to hurt when our war-mongering leaders finally get the war they've been pushing for.
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MrCopilot
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Imma just clip this, no notes. :thumbsup_hmn_h2: 🔥 ✊
The US administration thinks that it's getting value for its money on defense. There's a theory that the US military budget is being spent on getting stuff rather than mostly just a slush fund for defense contractors. But this leads them to believe that they're the most powerful people in the world and that they're as much stronger than any other country by the amount more they spend on weapons. And because of that they think that Europe couldn't stop terrorists. There's a belief that people aren't shooting drones at civilians because they *can't*, and they're mad that people are relying on them to fire drones at civilians. They believe that everyone else is just ungrateful for their droning of civilians. They can't envision a world where blowing up innocents in an apartment building is considered a bad move. excerpt from @silverwizard
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related note: House committee hearing scheduled for tomorrow to find out why we don't shoot drones at our citizens.
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silverwizard
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@MrCopilot oh good! Luckily the Obama admin wrote a memo oking the use of drones on US citizen children!
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I didn't think it in so many words, but we got hung up on the same detail of this story. Not the poor OPSEC, not the unaccountability of Signal disappearing messages for public officials, not the vague disagreement between Vance and Trump, but the unwarranted jab at Europe.
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@Hypolite Petovan To be fair, this is partly me thinking about your own thoughts (I read your post yesterday). But tthis line definitely was most formed with yelling at Zelenskyy for not saying thank you. But it's all fucked, but it's such background noise in all the warcrimes vomit.

I think the fact that they killed 50ish innocent people who no theory they were involved in anything is also wildly important to this stry!

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