If you continue reading you'll notice the move was supported by other moderators.your complaint is filed under: can't read, misrepresents or is lazy.
the deciding factor was my personal annoyance as a person interested in politics but generally really disliking commenting on it as I get dragged down into the mud as well and then upon reflection dislike the thread even more by invoking my baser nature (as it seems to do with many). In addition, there was feedback from another poster on another thread about the deteriorating moderation standards. After mulling it over I decided I agreed with him and wanted to step up and do something about it. It happens to coincide with the change in Social Media use at this site, which by and large received a positive reaction that gave me an extra impulse.
GENERAL BALDWIN, who early on had crucially helped connect the partners’ commanders, had visited Kyiv in September 2023. The counteroffensive was stalling, the U.S. elections were on the horizon and the Ukrainians kept asking about Afghanistan.
The Ukrainians, he recalled, were terrified that they, too, would be abandoned. They kept calling, wanting to know if America would stay the course, asking: “What will happen if the Republicans win the Congress? What is going to happen if President Trump wins?’”
He always told them to remain encouraged, he said. Still, he added, “I had my fingers crossed behind my back, because I really didn’t know anymore.”
Mr. Trump won, and the fear came rushing in.
In his last, lame-duck weeks, Mr. Biden made a flurry of moves to stay the course, at least for the moment, and shore up his Ukraine project.
He crossed his final red line — expanding the ops box to allow ATACMS and British Storm Shadow strikes into Russia — after North Korea sent thousands of troops to help the Russians dislodge the Ukrainians from Kursk. One of the first U.S.-supported strikes targeted and wounded the North Korean commander, Col. Gen. Kim Yong Bok, as he met with his Russian counterparts in a command bunker.
The administration also authorized Wiesbaden and the C.I.A. to support long-range missile and drone strikes into a section of southern Russia used as a staging area for the assault on Pokrovsk, and allowed the military advisers to leave Kyiv for command posts closer to the fighting.
Time and again, the Biden administration authorized clandestine operations it had previously prohibited. American military advisers were dispatched to Kyiv and later allowed to travel closer to the fighting. Military and C.I.A. officers in Wiesbaden helped plan and support a campaign of Ukrainian strikes in Russian-annexed Crimea. Finally, the military and then the C.I.A. received the green light to enable pinpoint strikes deep inside Russia itself.
In some ways, Ukraine was, on a wider canvas, a rematch in a long history of U.S.-Russia proxy wars — Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s, Syria three decades later.
It was also a grand experiment in war fighting, one that would not only help the Ukrainians but reward the Americans with lessons for any future war.
This is why I've said that talking about the 51st State and referring to the prime minister as "governor" is far more dangerous that it at first seems. Questioning the sovereignty of a nation state is like summoning up the devil. You either have extremely dark intentions, or you simply don't know what you are doing. Coming from an "expendable" country, we take these issues dead seriously.
Let's remind ourselves just how good the relations have been. Not only are there people like you or Canadians living in the US, there's about 1 million dual-citizens that have both Canadian and US passports. What is their role here?
The only lucky thing here is that Canadians understand that this isn't what Americans voted for when voting for Trump. But once the trade wars starts and if energy cuts from Canada produce rolling blackouts, the Americans can also have the grudge against the Canadians. It truly can get ugly.
It does. It is illegal. And no evidence of the alleged waste and fraud is ever presented beyond wild internet memes about millions of condoms for Gaza and the like. It’s all just rhetoric used to justify egregious behavior. All of DOGE’s boasts about how much money has been saved have been debunked.
Another myth! Trump has no interest in balancing the budget, and none of what Congress is proposing will achieve that end. Trump's proposal to cut taxes will far offset the amounts being saved by Musk's chainsaw, which will hardly make a dent in the overall financial situation.
The idea that DOGE is going to 'balance the budget' by indiscriminate cuts is a myth. Most of the cuts are ideological, driven by Trump's animus towards 'the deep state' (read: the state).
Same old same old. I heard him denigrate John McCain's military service - as a loser. I don't get your reference to the Iraq war. And Russiagate has never gone away; it's only a question of how much he's in bed with Putin. And what was his lie about the CIA operative? You deal in pronouncements, not facts; your mendacity is disgraceful. Try dealing in facts.
Musk's actions speak louder than words. He knows how to come across in interviews. As for 'ironed out in Court', Trump and Musk have already crashed through the guardrails on multiple occasions, a deliberate strategy crafted by Stephen Miller to 'flood the zone', knowing that the judicial system wouldn't be able to keep pace with the scale and rate of Trump's orders. There are now more than 30 legal challenges to Trump executive orders, but even if some are found illegal much of the damage may not be easily remedied. And, not co-incidentally, Musk is campaigning for the impeachment of 'activist judges', those being any judges who have the temerity to stand in the way of Trump's juggernaut - something which even the purportedly Trump-friendly Supreme Court has issued a warning on.
As regards the USAID and Foreign Aid, regardless of whether there was wastage and fraud, those funds that were held back had already been approved by Congress, and Foreign Aid in particular is scrutinized by no less that four congressional committees. If Congress hadn't been completely cowed by Trump, there's no way he and Musk could have perpertrated these outrages which are indubitably going to affect many millions of people in the developing world and beyond. "World's Richest Man Sets Records for Misanthropy."
What he thought and realized, and when, is more than I know, and more than you know. We do not know that he was mistakenly invited: how does that happen in a top-secret meeting? He was apparently identified as well as anyone else. I suppose he was silent. But how is he eavesdropping? Please make that clear? In a meeting so constituted, attendees are supposed to listen, and what is the expectation of privacy? (Ans.: zero.) And how is he to know that he is not supposed to be there? Maybe he was exactly and precisely supposed to be there.
I know nothing personal about the Atlantic editor, beyond what I have seen of him and read. But he appears to be an honest and honorable man in a job that requires both, but you calumnize him in favour of people we know are vicious, mean, and contemptible. Why?
You know better! He was invited and accepted. Later when he referred to it, they attacked and insulted and abused him - they also said nothing was classified so he published. Your version not just spin, but an entire fiction. Why are you such a liar?
How had he "hung out"? How was his watching "prying"? How did he know it was a mistake - he at first thought it was a prank on him. And what was his obligation to inform? Presumably they knew who was in their very secret "principals only" meeting.
Until you clear up at least these discrepancies and inconsistencies in your accounting you're a troll and a liar. And so far you have failed.
I believe Aristotle said it could be either. There are "natural" slaves, and also those enslaved forcibly whose nature is otherwise. Probably in the Politics?
In either case, their lies - and attacking Goldberg, have made the story bigger.
A military serviceman or an intelligence officer using Signal-app to forward timetables of future military strikes, an issue obviously classified in any sitution, would be severely punished. Likely that serviceman or officer would lose his or her job because of his or her recklessness of not following opsec-rules.
That these people don't give a fuck about such issues is the disrespect here. They can pray for the troops as much they want and hold up the flag, but such actions show actually how much they respect following orders.
Since the US is had it with having any allies (except Israel, I guess) and just wants to cozy up with Russia, what is us to do other than rearm and think our security over?
You're inconsistent. In the past, you supported the release of newswothy information:
Regarding embarrassment: the officials committed the embarassing behavior. Goldberg was doing his job reporting it.
Marco Rubio hasn't served.
Steve Witkoff hasn't served.
John Rattcliffe hasn't served.