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2018-12-26 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 We feed ourselves.

We do until some politicians accept bribes of fractions of a penny on the dollar to give that away, too. Like medications or strategic industries.

Posted by gorb 2018-12-26 03:29|| 2018-12-26 03:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Or some idiot insists we convert all our foodstuff to biofuel.

Posted by Black Charlie Noodleman4774 2018-12-26 04:54|| 2018-12-26 04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Our entire hemisphere is of zero threat to us.

There is an existential threat at our porous southern border of terrorists, human smuggling and drugs.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-12-26 13:05|| 2018-12-26 13:05|| Front Page Top

#4 The only real global challenger we have will be China and we have absolutely ZERO reason to have a land dispute with them on mainland Asia. Any conflict will - if we are smart about it - be mostly an air and sea conflict for us, with any land force hopefully limited to islands.

Bingo. All problems unrelated to China - Syria, Iraq/Afg, Ukraine etc - need to be viewed as REGIONAL disputes that require regional solutions involving local or regional powers. Our involvement in these solutions needs to be first and foremost diplomatic, with occasional insertions of air power and other forms of "offshore balancing."

Time to listen to realists arguing for offshore balancing such as Barry Posen of MIT and John Mearsheimer of U Chicago.

Posted by Lex 2018-12-26 13:47|| 2018-12-26 13:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Amen Lex.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-26 14:31|| 2018-12-26 14:31|| Front Page Top

#6 There is an existential threat at our porous southern border of terrorists, human smuggling and drugs.
That threat originated from within, from the large fraction of the electorate willing to abandon national sovereignty for stupid reasons, led by the globalists. In addition the Postal Service subsidizes the mailing of fentanyl and carfentanil from China. Who's to blame for that?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-26 16:13|| 2018-12-26 16:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The only reason we are in Syria is because the empty suit had to save face after weenying out of his red line.

That and kill Baghdadi

The Middle East is the Middle East and a tar baby of apocalyptic proportions. We should just stay the hell out and just trim up our balance of payments by selling them anything and everything they need to kill each other.

The best way to stop all of the ME nonsense is to knock the spot price of oil to about $45 a barrel and all of the will go broke and back to living in tents and camel racing. You would see a lot of ME economies just collapse.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-12-26 18:21|| 2018-12-26 18:21|| Front Page Top

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