Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar: Stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry and bound for Ukraine.
In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the U.S. Transportation Command, known as TRANSCOM, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?
Top national security officials — in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department — couldn’t provide answers. Within one week, flights were back in the air.
The verbal order originated from the office of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, according to TRANSCOM records reviewed by Reuters.
Obviously can’t have TRANSCOM, it needs to be renamed to CISWHITEMALECOM first
ALPHAMALECOM
So they can recall guns but not citizens deported to gulag in El Salvador.
Do guns have more rights than people?
Always have.
hey remember when we held our votes so that the Democrats would stop supporting genocide? congrats, now they’re supporting 2 genocides (and probably a lot more I’m not aware of)
I’ve combed through the statistics for the 2024 election multiple times. Just check my profile.
The uncommitted movement were some 700,000 strong. Those numbers were on par with RFK’s votes since he didn’t pull out of the race by the time he endorsed Trump.
Democrats lost voters in 2024, despite the eligible voting pool increasing. Republicans gain voters ofc.
Why are you focusing on the voters when it’s the politician’s job to CONVINCE voters they’re worth voting for? And are we forgetting the awful transition by Biden to Kamala, where she had 3 months to campaign? Are we forgetting how Biden said he’d be a transition candidate, that he wouldn’t run for a second term but then did so anyway to the surprise of his staff?
We could have held a primary where the American people could have at least had the impression that they were engaging in Democracy (only for the DNC to pick their favorite anyways).
Pleaseeeeeee stop blaming voters. You’re repeating the cycle where those in power never have to change.
I won’t stop blaming the voters that just sit there and expect to be spoonfed perfect candidates like toddlers, instead of understanding one candidate wasn’t perfect and the other is a fascist. The american electorate needs the plane noises and everything.
I’m focused on both, I’ve been incredibly critical of the Democrats but I’m also critical of nonvoters because they’ve committed to it as a strategy to convince the Democrats to their own folly because it won’t work, and only serves as accelerationism
Every single vote abstainer is complicit in every terrible thing that is currently happening in the US.
Occasionally on my Reddit account I try to get people to see this point, but they’re enjoying their posturing as the “only people being moral” too much and refuse to listen.
People that virtue signal are THE WORST people. Murderers with no remorse are better because AT LEAST THEY ARE HONEST.
people who trip over their own morals and actively accelerate genocide ARE the worst.
but look none of this is meant to be a personal attack it’s more so meant to make people examine if they’re actions are actually leading to the results they claim to want.
If, in 30 years, when the choice is between a democrat who wants 20 genocides and a republican who wants 21, will you still be voting blue? This is why people call you blue maga. There is no red line. You all will sacrifice however many Palestinians or Ukrainians it takes to bide time till the next election cycle when the Democratic party is definitely going to have a liberal Renaissance led by AOC and Bernie, and fascism will be defeated and we can all dance for joy. Never mind the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinian children it took to get you there.
Do you think Germans in mid 1930’s Germany had a duty to vote liberal despite democracy having already been thrown out the window? As people were getting sent to death camps and there was zero hope of fair and free elections, did Germans have a duty to vote blue? Or did they have a duty to start getting organized with vulnerable groups, learning sabotage, and getting armed?
Your “pragmatic” utilitarianism has resulted in a genocide and an incinerated planet. Your empire is over and devolving into fascism, and it’s time you start realizing that.
In democracy, politicans represent constituents. Biden and Kamala ignored constituents. Biden and Kamala lost. This is how democracy works. This outcome was more American than apple pie.
nice, I’ll bury my morals next to the millions dead for yours
I’m not saying give up on trying to save everyone, I’m saying your execution has only killed even more people
A non-vote is complicit by abiding the greater evil.
You get nothing, you lose. Good day sir.
Naive as hell. Yall are a joke. Way to avoid any of my questions.
Yall are the type who’d be ridiculing a 1940s German Jew for not voting liberal. This is why leftists accurately point out that liberals will side with fascism when things get rough.
Who convinced you of this shit logic? It’s embarrassing.
when the choice is between a democrat who wants 20 genocides and a republican who wants 21, will you still be voting blue
Yes. Is algebra hard for you?
And, fuck you for conflating “want” from “allow” when it suits you.
You are stupid and spewing bullshit, fuck you.
You’re stupid and naive. 20 elections voting for 20 not 21 genocides results in dramatically fewer genocides. Instead you now get exponentially more with your stupid purity test.
I remember when the democrates chose the interests of a foreign apartheid state commiting genocide before the interests of their own voters.
We will get the exact same energy next election if you keep scapegoating voters.
no the United States together, both branches choose, yes the Democrats fucked up but they did not do so in isolation.
that’s the least pragmatic take I’ve ever heard, conditions in gaza have nothing but accelerated since Republicans took power, voting is not the only way to apply pressure.
I’d like you to take note of how you’re never critical of Republicans.
Congrats bro, the republicans suck. I expect the democrats to be the good guys, and good guys dont help genocide.
The main problem with republican voters is that they vote for whoever they are told to vote for, no matter what horrible things they did.
If all the democratic party has to offer is “genocide, status quo but we arent trump” then they deserve all the blame for what happened.
I voted for Kamala. I did it while gritting my teeth and there is something seriously wrong with that. I wont let a bunch of rubes scapegoat voters after the shitshow the dems orchestrated.
i understand where you’re coming from but what are your ideals worth if the execution only causes things to get worse for the very people you want to help?
please note i don’t mean you specifically but those that held their vote.
i understand being pissed at the Democrats. I will never say you should stop holding them accountable, just that holding your vote does way, WAY more damage than good
By consistently blaming voters, you are doing the opposite of holding them accountable.
Getting mad at anybody but them is a waste of energy and gives them the green light to give us the same exact platform next election.
I was saying to vote for Kamala anyways just like everyone else before the election. But now that its over and they lost, we have to demand change imo.
I’m not blaming voters but I am pointing out that it won’t work and it’s self defeating, what they do with that is their business
What the heck is a democrate? Is that like a crate of demolition goodies, or an act of demolishing and crating your enemies? I’m not sure your opinion can be taken seriously when you haven’t even seen their name spelled out enough to have that down pat
Edited the typo but yes, it would be like a crate of demolition goodies, if your chances of being elected was what you were trying to demolish.
Geopolitics isn’t so one-dimensional. The US has long-standing agreements with Israel for intelligence, tech, and weapons in the middle east, like it or not. That can’t just be unraveled at the drop of a hat without risking planetary stability.
Should the US not have put themselves in such a position in the 1950s? 100%. Should they have been more aggressive and quick on doing anything when the genocide started? Probably.
It wasn’t “the democrats” or “the republicans.” It was the US Federal Government as a whole. Choosing or abstaining a vote for a candidate solely on world events outside the US wouldn’t have fixed that in any universe.
Reality can’t be governed by aspiration, well, actually, I guess it can, because a bunch of idiots decided to hold back their vote that could have saved their own damn country, and look where the US is now, and now is only the beginning.
“Oh, I know, I don’t like that my current Federal Government isn’t being proactive world police in other countries even though I call out my nation for being proactive world police in other countries, so I’ll show them by not voting for a Presidential candidate. They’ll get my message…What do you mean a Genocidal Fascist Satan crew will win if I don’t vote? They’ll get my message! That’s unpossible! I couldn’t possibly be taking an action that will accelerate their genocide and lead to more genocide right in my home town?!”
Maybe too many people live in the world in their head instead of reality.
We also have very clear laws that specifically prohibit the sell of weapons to countries who plan to commit ethnic cleansing with them.
What your saying is low key gross tbh. If an ally is commiting genocide, the first thing that should happen is they simply stop being our ally, full stop.
If we were 90 years in the past and allied with Germany, would you be defending the holocaust? What if the holocaust continuing guarantees geopolitical stability?
It’s also laughable to talk about geopolitical stability when it involves warmongering Israel. They almost started a war with Iran which would have probably involved nukes, and are occupying and pissing off essentially all their neighbors.
I have to apologize to Keifer Sutherland and the creators of 24.
When they did an season where the President of the US was actively working against the country I threw my hands up and declared the show had jumped the shark.
On a similar subject I’ll say the creators of The Boys need to chill the fuck out. I have zero desire to watch a show only slightly more fucked up than reality.
Wouldn’t that mean they need to go more off the rails instead of chill out?
They could make it WAY more fucked up instead
Yes, then it wouldn’t hit as close to home. (But then, that was their goal.)
Don’t worry, his Russian handlers weren’t surprised at all.
All of these Trump officials using cloned telegram apps to send messages back to Russia is starting to make alot more sense now.
I know someone exactly like trump, who said the same thing about work he had me spend 3 days working on when it was inconvenient to admit the truth. I do not doubt at all that trump ordered this and threw hegseth under the bus.
That was the plan. The spectacle in the WH about suits was to convince Americans that Ukraine shouldn’t be helped. Trump was convinced that blocking help to Ukraine will force them to surrender, and the war will be over.
When Ukraine and Poland contacted WH asking what was going on, WH just acted like they don’t know what’s happening.
It was one of those things where your boss’s boss asks you to do something. No biggie
Those flights you can stop. Flights that render people to overseas gulag? :shrug:
The DUI hire order the flights stopped when he found out they weren’t full of whiskey
If you don’t do what Trump wants, you’re fired. He doesn’t tell you what he wants though…
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