• lychee🍒@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    The ideological score here must be worth more to Trump than the strength of America’s military, already hurting for new recruits, which says a lot and frankly scares the fuck out of me

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      9 days ago

      Weakening the USA’s defenses seems to be a consistent theme with Trump.

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      8 days ago

      Well, the problem is you’re thinking logically. It’s an ideological victory on both ends for him.

      Conservatives view this as strengthening the military, not weakening it.

      The actual strength of America’s Military doesn’t matter because they don’t have hostile nations on their borders. So when America’s Military loses some of their force projection ability it can be used to say we’re turning towards isolationist policy, which is also a win for him. (From the Putin angle and from the Conservative one)

      And, again, if you point out that this move will weaken the American Military, well what are you? A terrorist who doesn’t believe they have the greatest, manliest fighting force ever seen?