Foreign intelligence agencies must pinch themselves right now.
Or exercising every exploit they've banked knowing the chances of being caught are now even lower.
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#12Has the rest of the democratic world been making plans to reduce reliance on the US since the first Trump administration? Will this term be the end of the craziness or is this the end of the US as a super power?
France has spent half a century being like “Look at me, I can offer nuclear umbrella, and also sell modern weapons, who need the crazy US when you can have me ”, and is finally hoping to score !
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#13Bruce Schneiers thoughts : https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-nat... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/ai-and-civil-...
>> Assuming that anyone in the government still cares.
Schneier hits the mark here.
Government only works at all if people care.
And if you tell someone that their job, and the organisation they work for - are of no value - then those people won't care any more.
I don't know what the outcome would be of large swathes of the government either being fired or not caring any more but we're going to find out and I don't think it will be good.
Or maybe not, maybe Trump and whathisname are right and government really is a complete waste of money. In which case there will be great money savings and the USA will be the better for it.
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#14Has the rest of the democratic world been making plans to reduce reliance on the US since the first Trump administration? Will this term be the end of the craziness or is this the end of the US as a super power?
It really does feel like this is the end of the US as the dominating super power and world police.
Who wants to buy weapons from the US when you won't get permission to use them to defend themselves?
Who wants to make deals with the US when they will just get torn up and the US will even threaten their allies with economic sanctions and even invasion?
Who in their right mind will lean on the US to protect them, when they're showing how incompetent and unreliable they are?
The answer is obvious.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
France has spent half a century being like “Look at me, I can offer nuclear umbrella, and also sell modern weapons, who need the crazy US when you can have me ”, and is finally hoping to score !
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yes, France has won a lot of wars. France and England basically divided most of the world between themselves at one point. Germany being a distant runner up.
But on the other hand Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons said a funny thing one time so Americans now think they must be wimps.
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#16The Presidential Pardon being the underlying legal basis of everything. With that power, everything is legal.
Yup. Basically that and the president being the executor of laws and having a standing army that he is chief of … effectively makes him a king. Especially since Congress is bought and paid for and won’t impeach him.
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#17Great news for Iran, which might not need to assemble its own nuclear warheads and instead could buy them off some shady salesperson in Bulgaria once they've been pilfered from the US.
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#18Foreign intelligence agencies must pinch themselves right now.
Serious case of "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake", I suspect.
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yes, France has won a lot of wars. France and England basically divided most of the world between themselves at one point. Germany being a distant runner up. But on the other hand Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons said a funny thing one time so Americans now think they must be wimps.
> But on the other hand Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons said a funny thing one time so Americans now think they must be wimps.
Is this a deep-cut joke I'm not getting about Scotland?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
France has spent half a century being like “Look at me, I can offer nuclear umbrella, and also sell modern weapons, who need the crazy US when you can have me ”, and is finally hoping to score !
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I would love to hear your understanding of French military history. Genuinely curious to know what year you would choose to begin with.