China, propaganda, and war references

I thought they weren’t wars. Given - you know - no congressional approval.

Thousands of dollars in fuel wasted as well for a country currently engaged in a war & is currently running low or out of supplies & armaments because of their "blow it all at once" mentality.

I thought it wasn’t a war and it would be over in a couple of days. Idiot . A very dangerous idiot.

So he’s going to end the war as a loser.

China is far from perfect and I feel you’re probably right about its lack of hegemonic ambitions. But idk it’s hard to say they are a less responsible superpower than the U.S. at this point. All the handwringing in the west about its dysfunction and transgressions feels dated and cope-fueled.

$200 billion for a pointless war!

Trump is in an unfair position. The public does not want him to continue the war, but we do.

Trump announces the War State.

Vergessen wir Landstuhl nicht. Wo aktuell Opfer von Trumps Krieg behandelt werden

I heard Ashley Parker say his base doesn’t like “foreign adventurism” I nearly fell out of my seat. War is foreign adventurism truly is insane.

That is why governments are supposed to treat war like it’s a real, big thing not a video game but this White House inverts that lesson entirely

Hace años que China viene bajando su stock de bonos estadounidenses.

Das hat damit nun wirklich nichts zu tun. Es steht selbstverständlich in einem Gesamtkontext. Aber wir sprechen jetzt von dem Krieg, den Trump und Netsnhahu angezettelt hast.

Didn’t we just have a whole thing about not assuming that reporting on events means being on board with said events?

“...a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime." Well then, I guess it’s a good thing we’re only in excursiontime.

Trump's 5D Chess genius is to not acknowledge that he even has a culminating point. If the military is stupid enough to do this, they should call it "Operation Vasa."

There was a Chotiner interview a couple weeks back where the guy was arguing we had to support the war because good stuff could happen and Chotiner kept asking if he thought Trump was interested in or capable of doing those good things and the guy had to keep being like "No, but...". Same vibe.

Four Democratic representatives voted against a war powers resolution that aimed to compel President Trump to halt military action. By voting against this, they effectively allowed the military operations to continue without new, immediate congressional limitations. One was Juan Vargas.

I mean, it's a totalitarian govt. They commit to a leader and to a plan. Seems to be working for them. I'm curious tho, what does that have to do with The Economist framing China and Xi as a US enemy?

And having entered this war of his own accord, he's allowed both Putin and Xi some nice precedent for whatever illegal wars they choose to pursue. He's marched the US right off any high ground they could claim and into the swamp.

Most of us do, the war is deeply unpopular we’re being held hostage by our president and politicians

With the USA going criminally rogue under President Fuckface, some folks have feared that China will reciprocate by attempting to take Taiwan. Rather, it seems to me that China has learned that it can prosper far greater by offering the world a stable & sober partner…

A poorly thought out war that is causing our allies to waste unnecessary resources to defeat our enemies.

Seems like they have morphed into their historical Emperor model.

This is propaganda tho, convincing dimwit Americans that China is the enemy. A country that has not attacked anyone or been engaged in a war or bombing campaign of any kind since 1979.

America became its own enemy being fixated in its own pretences of exceptionalism. While I do get why some see China a certain way (my family had their reasons to immigrate from there to here), their focus is on stability and growth, as they continue to emerge out of the Century Of Humiliation.

But according to Trump it’s not a war.

People need to understand the scale of the war Trump has started, and the past record of supposedly the world's greatest military force. Does anyone still think this is going to end in quick victory?

All this is preposterous and unnecessary! It shouldn’t be happening! Our government never approved of any of this catastrophe! Yet here we are “going along” with it! This must be stopped and future escalations must be halted now!

Compare with Truman's integration of the US military in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Also, trying 100 times to whack Castro meant the Mob had a good sucker paying for each sure to fail attempt. One of the Watergate CIA guys wrote a paperback novel about one of the failed attempts.

I just know this fuckwit is going to cut and run on his not-a-war and leave us other countries to clean up his mess.

I can get behind that model. At this point, the majority of Americans are seeing this is our greatest nuclear option.

Foreign policy signals spark debate again this week. Americans oppose conflict—but feel disconnected from decisions. How should consent and deliberation actually work before power is used? the1776.org

They’re begging for a deal I’m not interested in a deal We’ve surpassed our objectives ahead of schedule everybody said we couldn’t do it I did it I changed the regime

If his aim was to get his country stuck in another unwinnable war, then, Yes, he has achieved his aim.

‘a war that is not ours’? It is very much a US war. You cannot wash your hands of it simply by intoning ‘it is not our war’ as if it were a magical incantation.