Anything to distract from the Epstein files.
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Doesn't DoD have detailed attack plans for every nation already?
Yes.
Well, not necessarily detailed. Like I'm sure the plan for an invasion of Uruguay is basically nonexistent, while one for war with China is comprehensive.
Plans for a zombie apocalypse have also been created at least once as an exercise. It's good practice for an emergency situation.
Airborne Rabies wouldn't be that dissimilar from zombies. Pretty sure there's a tabletop for that.
We've got that in Australia!
note: It's 'not rabies' (it's Bat Lyssavirus, which is 'totally not rabies'*) and it's 'airborne' since they're bats :P
I mean, bats carry hella rabies too. They're basically just little mystery disease packets.
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Yes but this is a bad headline. The article is about specifically using US military to attack cartels, which the Trump administration has already made legal for themselves by recategorizing them as terrorists.
It is still a violation of both international law and common sense.
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Doesn’t DoD have detailed attack plans for every nation already?
Yep. I would be more surprised if there wasn't an attack plan for any country with more than 5m people.
When current news gives you flashbacks to the Cyberpunk 2077 lore. The names and dates are different but the trends and events match enough to give the uncanny feeling. Agencies in the streets being deployed, USA in trade war losing irrelevance, going for the Central American war and then losing. By the way, that's why cybernetic limbs got so good, they needed them to patch up the soldiers from that war.
How does one lose irrelevance?
By gaining relevance!
If people stop trading with you, you start becoming irrelevant. If you stop producing science, you stop becoming revelant.
But that would be losing relevance
I'm sorry, we were looking for "sex tape"
He's trying to imitate Putin. Probably go about as well as it has for Putin as well.
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Ah, roght out of Isreals play book, invade a country on the basis of eliminating terrorists/gangs
Ehm... the US doesn't need to use someone's else's copy of the book they wrote.
Pretty much every nation with an army has attack plans against its' neighbours, just in case. Actually using them, of course, is quite another thing. Unless you need to be really on your toes because of an unpredictable, aggressive and vicious southern neighbour like -not to name anyone- Austria.
Most other countries aren't currently ran by a dementia addled pedophile who's desperate to become a king.
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The US isn’t ready for a two front war where the whole world wants to get rid of them. They don’t have the cards.
Please... I'm not a big fan of the US right now either. But that is just an absurd claim. No one is going to willingly open up a front against the US.
Like it or not, but they absolutely have the cards.
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That's wrong, the US can eat a couple of countries just fine. The efficiency is atrocious, but the sheer inherited strategic power and logistics and stockpiles, and the amount of funding allowing to, say, build drones analogous to Russian "Geran" 100x times more expensive in the same amounts as Russia does, - all these make many wars a certain victory in the sense of destroying the other side's forces and possibly civilian population.
Anyway. Two things.
1 - In his previous term there was squeal from all sides how he's going to institute fascism right now. "The boy who cried wolves" may be a valid analogy or it may not. I think before anything like this the US will have an open change of the regime. At the same time - it's very convenient to have the land border with other countries very narrow, when instituting totalitarianism (resistance fighters, people trying to flee, all kinds of stuff), so possibly eating Mexico and Canada and doing a regime change after that is good enough.
2 - Perhaps any kind of a war is easier done after, suppose, an economic crisis happens. AI bubble burst, or something like that.
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Why? What's even the end goal? A war to stay in office maybe?
Martial Law is definitely on his wishlist.
If this was a competent president. I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt.
But we all know Trump only cares about one thing. And it's not the US. It's himself.
He may very well be under the impression that it will somehow give him more time in office, or it's just some way for him to try and get better approval rating. How he is percieved by the US is of major importance to his ego.
He hates how his approval is lower than Obamas. And he probably hates how his approval is lower than G.W.Busch.
G.W.Busch had an approval rating of around ~60%. Then a certain incident happened and his approval went to as high as 92% at a certain time.
Trump might, for some reason. Think that him starting/provoking a war will give him a similar boost.
Ofc to you and me it sounds insane and we know that's not going to improve his rating. But we are reasonable, normal people with common sense.
Faltering empires always flail about militarily. Part of the death throes.
That said. It would almost be worth him doing it just to see what happens when Mexico invokes Article 5.
Mexico isn’t in NATO.
Well poo. Still. It'll be fun to watch the US lose another war.
25 years of recent living memory experience and we still can't fight an insurgency. Let alone one that already knows all our best training and techniques.
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if and when he feels like it
I hate that this is an actionable threat.
US - China proxy war of attrition coming or nah? Americans finally understanding the horrors of war might push their society into positive change...
That’s a funny joke.
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