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Same reason we have nukes and don't use them: To be prepared if we need to, not to be the belligerent morons that tear everything down.


I think he was paraphrasing an earlier Trump quote of "Why have all these nukes if we aren't going to use them?"

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-n...


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They are based in Alaska, which is both a US state and strategically a rather key location for, among other things, air, including ballistic missile, defense; the defense of Alaska seems to be an ideal role for troops (1) with arctic training, and (2) the capability to rapidly redeploy to address incursions over a very wide area of operations.


In any other presidency, it would be Russia. We had a cold war with them for 40+ years with anticipations that a hot war could start at literally any moment (see the fictional film Red Dawn). But, I don't think that Trump would invade Russia. His priorities are vastly different from any other president, Democrat or Republican.


Probably Alaska.


Why do you have SSBNs if you aren't launching nukes?


The deputy commander of that division is this guy: https://11thairbornedivision.army.mil/dcgo/


Crazy how your position has evolved over time. Now you are straight shitposting in support of the USA going to war with our allies (on the back of the USA sending ACTUAL delegations to takeover land, delegations that left Greenland's negotiators in tears).


Some guy will become a PhD on this.


I find him to be an interesting case study. I was wondering what his limit with Trump would be. It seems we haven't found it yet, he just keeps moving his own internal overton window.


/s?


It's hard to tell with him. In the past rayiner has written that people opposing fascism were being antisocial. He's either a troll (and very committed to the bit) or a very confused individual.


I actually believe he may be goading on US self-destruction in some attempt at retribution, perhaps, for being bullied as a child of foreign parents.

He’s clearly educated and articulate, so not much else makes sense.


Quite the opposite: I had an idyllic childhood in a southern state suburb that voted for George H.W. Bush twice. I grieve for the loss of that America and fear the regression to the global mean.


No, just MAGA normalizing Trump/the US going to war with Europe, and shitposting.




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