… I’m with you … let’s conquer the dune cunes and take their resources…. Then subjugate them

… that’d be fun

Those are probably NATO bases, They are meant for defense, not U.S.offensive operations .

…. Nobody listens to me ..,.. I’m an idiot

…. This a trapping forum where we cut up about politics every now and then

… just good clean fun

… don’t put that evil on me lol

Then maybe you have an idea why Trump wants Greenland.

^^^^^^^ In a way that 's funny, so we have to wait to be attacked before we can become offensive ?

OK Sorry, got out of line, just not everything is a joke .

… I could recommend a book

…. Calm down brother…. We’re just screwed at this point

… I cope by watching reruns of the Andy Griffith show

I didn't know you read.

He reads Dr SUSE (SP) BOOKS.

When I was part of NATO we trained to defend against an invasion. Never planned or trained to invade anybody. NATO is a defence alliance.

I watch that too, got tired of paying for informercials and high prices for movies and sports.
Antenna tv now, same crap, just more money in my pocket. It's free after installation .
Can even watch soaps, if you want!
DD might be interested in that.

As long as we paid for it. Another free ride by NATO countries.
How much do they pay into the costs of operations?

In gulf War I a bunch of the middle east Islamic countries paid the U.S. to attack Iraq and throw them out of Kuwait. I wonder how much Israel is paying the U.S. to attack Iran. Probably won't be getting any shekels soon.

"GAO discussed the status of allied contributions to support Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and the use of such contributions to defray U.S. costs. GAO noted that: (1) the European Commission (EC) and 49 countries contributed support for the Persian Gulf crisis; (2) during the Persian Gulf crisis, 36 countries sent ground, air, or naval forces or support units to the region; (3) allies pledged about $54 billion and contributed about $44.5 billion, including $39.1 billion in cash and $5.4 billion in in-kind support; (4) as of July 31, 1991, the Department of Defense (DOD) had received an additional $1.6 billion in cash and contributions totalling about $46.1 billion; (5) Japanese and Korean pledges to support the operations were reduced due to a misunderstanding between governments; (6) of the $7.9 billion in future receipts, DOD expects to receive about $7.7 billion in cash, including $4.1 billion from Saudi Arabia, $3.5 billion from Kuwait, and up to $129 million from Japan; (7) in addition to cash and in-kind support to the United States, EC and 24 countries pledged about $16.1 billion in economic assistance to Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, and other countries affected by the economic embargo against Iraq; and (8) allied contributions will be used to defray U.S. costs of maintaining military forces in the Persian Gulf, related costs, and incremental costs. GAO believes that: (1) allied cash contributions should be sufficient to finance U.S. funding requirements to pay for the incremental costs of the war; and (2) U.S. taxpayers' funds would not be needed."

Source of this information?
Funny quote U.S. taxpayers' funds would not be needed."[/quote]

Yet the US was the main force in that and all other wars over there!
Who paid for that?
Yet NATO countries hedge on their dues every year.
Time to let other countries back themselves, instead of letting the USA do the deed.
Takers will always take, and givers will always give.

When you have a UN sanctioned operation, other countries pony up a little. Not so much on" go it alone "operations.

True, seems as little as they can.
Time to stop being the worlds ATM!

Do you think that maaaaaaaaybe we will run ourselves so low on weapons that we will be attacked by China and Russia at our weakest point

Does the fact that Iran has been killing and sponsoring the killing of Americans for the last 40 plus years have any impact on the reasons for attacking Iran? If Israel wasn't involved, would people think differently?
Could this decision have been made purely for the interest of the U.S.A.?
As for getting the U.S. in order, just look at the pushback against shrinking the size of government, fraud investigation, or the support for whistle blowing fools who hinder operations of removing illegals who are robbing us blind. The U.S., I'm afraid, is lost already and I expect a generation who is up in arms over a dust up in the sand doesn't have the kahunas to do what is necessary to take the U.S. back to the nation it once was.

There’s no way for the US to get out of this alone without losing face. Iran is making a mockery out of this.
You can’t use nukes, can’t send ground troops, cyber attacks seem to be non existent, CIA relies 100% on other agencies in the region, ammo’s getting replenished but not over night.
A whole whack of leaders have been taken out, what’s changed? Is there anyway this can be twisted to look like this was a good move?
Right at the start, honestly, did anyone thing this was going to end well of the US?

The education level of some on here is obviously quite low, surprising they manage to jumble together a semi coherent statement sometimes…..lol.
You don’t have to be smart to look back and learn history, but it’s ugly so some refuse to learn……