I'm not sure why Noem was the first to get the axe. Putting foids in charge of anything is a mistake to begin with, but she wasn't Trump's shittiest cabinet appointment by a long shot (very low bar, albeit).
@Hoss I'd like to think Bondi is next on the block but I got a feeling from some of Trump's comments after the Dow at 50K hearing that he might keep her, at least for a little while
No sex change butchery period. Not for kids, not for adults, not for anybody. Such grotesque quackery does not belong in this country period. Full fucking stop. Ban it all.
Asmon will be ready to become Fuhrer in a year once he accepts that this war in Iran isn't going to just end and becomes way more redpilled about sand people wars for Israel.
@Hoss@PraxisOfEvil i have hope for him, he is a normie rightoid, but his mom was a q boomer magatard, and he didn’t want himself to turn out that way too
He seems convinced this will be over quick like Venezuela and Trump will cash the W before midterms. Could that happen? I doubt it, but I won't discount the possibility they could wrap this up within a month. Any longer than that I'd say we better get comfy and enjoy the new forever war.
Like I said, if it's not wrapped up in a month it's certainly not going to end in September. These things come in two flavors: over in weeks, or over in years.
I think it's more likely that he's impeached and/or resigns and is jailed, than the war is over before the midterms.
China is happy to let this keep going, Russia is fucking ecstatic to see it keep going, the Iranians are happy to keep it going... It's gonna keep going...
Yea, China's happy because they knew the US was gunning for them, and now the US is stuck in quicksand. So they'll be glad to make sure the quicksand continues.
@PraxisOfEvil@cjd@Hoss China is surrounded like Iran by US bases and it's on the chopping block if Iran falls. China has an industry worth a damn and can continue to benefit economically from it after this is over, it's not like Trump or Europe's going to start building factories in the meantime.
I doubt China is all that concerned about the consequences of this war spilling over into their backyard because the CCP already proved in Xinjiang that they can remove kebab with extreme prejudice and unmatched efficiency.
@cjd@apropos@Hoss That's true, after Trump's tariff fuckery Beijing is probably looking at America getting involved in months long protracted boondoggle and giggling to themselves.
I was reading an article about what China stands to lose in this war and this stood out to me
China may use this opportunity to take Taiwan at a point when our arsenal reserves is at a low and further military engagements is even more hostile in public opinion. Trump may go absolutely ape shit and drop a tact nuke or try to bring back the draft (and fail or get impeached for it).
@DrBtc@apropos@cjd@Hoss I think Xi has it's own timeline with Taiwan, I don't think they'd be influenced by Iran or Venezuela or anything like that tbh. As far as nukes and the draft go I think Americans would actually storm the White House
@PraxisOfEvil@DrBtc@apropos@cjd@Hoss Also Taiwan is capable of defending itself on its own to a large extent. They want to take it over peacefully if at all possible.
Taiwan is capable of defending itself to the extent that they can make an invasion extremely painful for China, but they wouldn't be able to independently repel one if China rolls up.
@Hoss@apropos@cjd Saw this as well, granted there's speculation these drones are being launched by remnants of Hezbollah in Lebanon, I remain skeptical mainly because it's fun to blame Israel for this stuff
@Hoss@apropos@DrBtc@cjd@PraxisOfEvil Yeah. Taiwan can't win but it can make it a long war. And that's more than enough to make the military option less desirable for the politburo.
Just seems like putting ourselves in a compromising position isn't good strategy. That photo of trump screaming at hegseth is really bad, he lost his marbles and we may be on the down hill ride.
Glowies will blow up Taiwanese chip fabs and murk a bunch of their semiconductor eggheads if Taiwan tries to flip allegiances. None of their options are good.
@PraxisOfEvil@wgiwf@Hoss@DrBtc@cjd could end very peacefully if Taiwan looks around and sees US bases fading from the region, as host countries decide that the Gulf Arab role in a conflict does not seem so attractive.
@wgiwf@Hoss@apropos@DrBtc@cjd I think Xi is content to sit on his hands for now, China is having it's own economic issues and Epic Fury is making their trade industry shaky, last thing they need is their own Afghanistan.
@Hoss@PraxisOfEvil@apropos@cjd burgers already bragged that they reverse engineered and made their own copy of the shahed in a press release, it's not possible to pin all drone strikes on iran anymore