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57Brave said:
The guy that promised to end Ukrainian War.
Having failed at that. ...I
Still don't know why?

As an aside, Iran ain't Venezuela
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Don’t know why? Ask the “leader” in Ukriane.

Iran will fall - the world will be a better place for it. The ccp will be weakened.
 
Fast forward to now Obama’s inaction and funding led us here.

When Iran is toppled the world will be much better.

Trumps record on foreign affairs dwarfs Husseins so not even sure what the point is b
 
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It is universally understood why Ukrainian Peace plan has been DOA. Still waiting on Russian (Putin) approval.

Oh, now I know why we bombed Iran!!
They control the egg and bread markets.

Having lost his wars in Chicago,LA,DC and Minnesota, going to try some where that has been historically inpennetrable.

Curious, who here has skin n this game ?
As in, draft age sons and daughters ?
We were told we would have casualties.
In a war not declared by Congress.
Might be a rubber stamp at this point. Yet, still a constitutional requirement to even use the word, war
 
One more then I will leave y'all to it

If we don't have money and a much discussed over blown debt, who is paying for this ? And isn't more debt added to the US economy more of a gift to our enemies?
 
57Brave said:
One more then I will leave y'all to it

If we don't have money and a much discussed over blown debt, who is paying for this ? And isn't more debt added to the US economy more of a gift to our enemies?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/21/trump-hegseth-budget-military/

Trump administration officials have struggled to figure out how to increase U.S. military spending by a whopping $500 billion in their forthcoming budget, slowing the overall White House spending plan, four people familiar with the matter said.

President Donald Trump last month agreed to a roughly 50 percent funding boost sought by Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, in the White House’s annual budget proposal. The idea ran into internal criticism from several other officials, including White House budget chief Russell Vought, who warned about its potential impact on the widening federal deficit, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal deliberations.


Since Trump agreed to the higher number, White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large, the people said. The White House is more than two weeks behind its statutory deadline to send its budget proposal to Congress, in part because it is unclear how precisely to spend the additional $500 billion, according to the people familiar with the matter.

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…I’ve got it!
 
acesfull86 said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/21/trump-hegseth-budget-military/

Trump administration officials have struggled to figure out how to increase U.S. military spending by a whopping $500 billion in their forthcoming budget, slowing the overall White House spending plan, four people familiar with the matter said.

President Donald Trump last month agreed to a roughly 50 percent funding boost sought by Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, in the White House’s annual budget proposal. The idea ran into internal criticism from several other officials, including White House budget chief Russell Vought, who warned about its potential impact on the widening federal deficit, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal deliberations.


Since Trump agreed to the higher number, White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large, the people said. The White House is more than two weeks behind its statutory deadline to send its budget proposal to Congress, in part because it is unclear how precisely to spend the additional $500 billion, according to the people familiar with the matter.

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…I’ve got it!
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The most incredible part of this is that we are just conceding that we aren’t going to make the military more efficient, we’re just going to intentionally spend more money so we can say we have a trillion dollar defense budget.
 
The reasoning he laid out in his speech is solid, Iran already knows how to build nukes so restarting the program from the previous strike was hardly insurmountable. Deterrence is about making the cost to build nukes unbearably high, not impossible. And to do it when the Iranian rulers have a tenuous grasp on control is giving any revolution every opportunity to succeed. Some people won’t like it, and others won’t like it just because Trump is doing it.
 
Jaw said:
The reasoning he laid out in his speech is solid, Iran already knows how to build nukes so restarting the program from the previous strike was hardly insurmountable. Deterrence is about making the cost to build nukes unbearably high, not impossible. And to do it when the Iranian rulers have a tenuous grasp on control is giving any revolution every opportunity to succeed. Some people won’t like it, and others won’t like it just because Trump is doing it.
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A year from now with the Islamic regime toppled and ccp severly weakened we won’t hear about the cheeky takes of aces and mqt.
 
mqt said:
The most incredible part of this is that we are just conceding that we aren’t going to make the military more efficient, we’re just going to intentionally spend more money so we can say we have a trillion dollar defense budget.
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And then control the oil of Venezuela and Iran. While staking the heart of Islamic extremism. Then the ccp severly weakened pushing Russia back into our arms.

All terrible things!
 
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