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Trump is torching US diplomacy and soft power Abandoning alliances Repeating Russian talking points Calling for massive military cuts *Planning a purge of the US military Taking a wrecking ball to American national security and global stability.

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pain. agony. misery.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

You know? I still find it remarkably easy to remain patriotic throughout this administration. Trump and the MAGA crowd are a repudiation of every single civic ideal that the United States is meant to represent—and I see no reason to stop believing in those ideals because of them.

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The U.S. Department of Defense loves getting its budget massively slashed by a guy who openly hates the military and American strategic goals, it’s its favorite thing www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Congress decides the DOD’s budget, like every other part of the federal government (sequestration was also the result of a law passed by Congress). Does this administration really believe that it will illegally impound $68 billion dollars/year of money that is already appropriated?

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The DoD budget is “capabilities-based.” That is, the national security strategy (what POTUS sees as how he keeps the nation safe) drives a defense strategy, which dictates what is needed for the pentagon budget. Big budget cuts before announcing a strategy will significantly restrict action.

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Hegseth orders military to draw up plans for 40% total budget cuts over the next fives years, 8% per year. Exponentially worse than sequestration that crippled the military in 2011. wapo.st/4hHV3Yt

submitted 4 days ago • 245 comments

i still think one of the oddest political developments in my lifetime was trump's disdain for troops causing the party to largely jettison decades of troop worshipping lip service

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

Allied amphibious defense in action 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 www.stripes.com/branches/mar... @starsandstripes.bsky.social

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What I didn’t know I was missing from every 007 or otherwise international spy hero film is, it turns out, a bar scene on a French aircraft carrier.

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NEW: The Trump administration has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court's order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Government changing online records because unwelcome attention arrived is familiar from another country I study

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Today is #NationalDrinkWineDay. Unfortunately for American sailors at sea, they cannot participate because U.S. Navy ships are dry. Their French counterparts are allowed two drinks per day. On the Charles de Gaulle, wine is available in the carrier's four bars.

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Cutting those who help our service members is the same as hurting our service members.

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Is this administration really going to fire the very people hired to help prevent suicides among junior enlisted servicemembers?

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71 years old and finally achieving his dream of killing children. Not just some children here or there, like he's been doing, but thousands of children annually, systematically, by destroying one of the pillars of public health, one of the greatest achievements of humanity.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

President Reagan's strategy on the Cold War: "We win, they lose.” President Trump's strategy today: The dictators win, we lose.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

So one funny thing the updates to this piece hit on in the body is the fact that defense/intel employees can't just have their unclass email+account deactivated and that's that like many other feds, they have to be debriefed, review/re-sign NDAs, turn in badges, be escorted out, etc...

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This database would give Musk detailed technical specifications of every system, detailed pricing and delivery schedules, and information on any confidential government investigations into every other U.S. defense firms. Conflict of interest does not get bigger than this.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Firing this many Department of Defense workers at once, who will now desperately need new sources of income, is a huge gift to enterprising foreign intelligence agencies looking for info on the US military and defense sector

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Feel like Lockheed and Raytheon might have a vested interest in stopping this zeteo.com/p/musk-and-d...

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A reminder that I’ll be giving a public lecture in Yokosuka this evening on “Japan's Policies Towards Russia and Ukraine in 2025.” I hear there is already a good sign-up. I look forward to seeing many people there. www.ycaps.org/cc-yokosuka-...

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We just had a civilian Deployed Resiliency Counselor embark our ship for a few days. She had started the job within the past year after decades of experience and earning a PhD. She is forward-deployed to Japan, like us. What will happen to her?

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I wonder how many civilian medical and behavioral health providers working for the DoD are still on probationary status.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

What a loser man

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Barbara Clementine Harris shattered the “stained glass ceiling” on February 11, 1989. As Bishop Suffragan of Massachusetts, she became the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion—to the joy of many and consternation of others. #EpiscopalBlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth 🕯️

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

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My offhand math is doing an across the board fire close to all the probie new hires just in the GS/equivalent systems would net probably at least 50K people, maybe closer to 75K, but expand that to the WGs and it's like 150K+

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Gonna be fun when a bunch of USAR/NG units don’t get their pay processed bc their ARAs were fired.

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The DoD firings are going to be... interesting. The DoD civilians are the ones who actually keep the major functions on every base up and running. The military personnel move around so much, there's no continuity without the DoD civilians.

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

This isn’t Chamberlain at Munich 1938, it’s Hitler-Stalin 1939.

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And this is just the direct-ish stuff at the unit level Offhand DoD civilian fuckery would impact your average unit/member by - significantly lower materiel readiness on equipment+spares availability - hope you didn't like the commissary - you think your pay gets fucked frequently now lol

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Elon’s gobbledygook, translated: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.”

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Worse than Munich 1938. When Chamberlain appeased Hitler, Germany had the strongest military on the continent and hadn’t launched a big attack. Now, US has the strongest military on the continent, and Russia is weakened from 3 years of war. This isn’t from fear and hope, it’s helping the aggressor.

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This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1

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Ok, Graham, there will never be a county called “Taiwan,” under any circumstances…

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Might any grownup in the Senate be willing to intervene now? Truly, this is the nuclear weapons agency. Is there no one interested in governance at all?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Generally speaking, slashing government funding for Christian organizations like Catholic Relief Services, attacking Lutheran charities, and maligning the US Conference of Catholic Bishops isn't especially pro-Christian.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

I worked at DOE. Their computer systems house some of the most sensitive and protected information in the entire USG including nuclear weapon designs. If he had access to classified systems there is a massive risk of leakage and misuse.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Disturbing ties between Kash Patel and SHEIN — a PRC company implicated in forced labor in Xinjiang. He has millions in shares and won’t divest. Especially concerning amid reports that DOJ/FBI is going to reduce focus on PRC influence efforts in the US. Full detail below from Roger Sollenberger:

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Graham Allison's views on China and Taiwan need to be decisively rejected: "Allison suggested a new communiqué could include a promise by the U.S. never to recognize 'an independent country called Taiwan' under any circumstances..." www.caixinglobal.com/2025-01-24/i...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

This is Russia-type shit.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments