As jarring revelations make Trump’s handling of the Iran debacle look even worse, a foreign policy expert explains how the president’s deranged conception of “strength” is making us weaker.

Donald Trump has once again stepped up his threats to entirely wipe out Iran, but it somehow isn’t forcing Iran to make the deal he wants. The emptiness of the threats is embarrassing enough. But now, CBS News has published a series of extraordinary photographs of American bases and equipment abroad badly damaged by Iranian attacks. These pictures were leaked by anonymous U.S. service-members who did this because the truth about Trump’s war is being suppressed. As one put it: “This is major damage to our ba…

  • hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    We only need $100 billion a year at most to maintain a small standing military for homeland defense.

    At this point we need to end all overseas BS and let the rest of the world sort it out. We have a $40 trillion deficit. We don’t need space lasers.