Who keeps giving Grok a gun?

Please read the article you yourself

Buddy, you can try reading past the first paragraph. There’s an extended back and forth in the interview discussing the violence around these bases and their broad unpopularity.

There are people in literally every country that wants foreign influence or bases out, that proves nothing

You don’t think an enormous population of foreign military resulting in high rates of unprosecuted sexual violence and organized crime demonstrates anything about the state of politics in the host country?

So you believe people in Korea, Japan, and the Philippines at the highest levels of power just… want this for their people? Or do you think they’re so beaten down they don’t believe in their own capacity for self-defense?

Random, but did you know an alternate name for Russians where I live is “occupiers”?

I mean, you keep coming back to Russians, as though you think they’re a different species.

I guess you’d call them, what? Orks?

Is the violent occupation of conquered territory only a problem for you when the occupying army is Slavic?

Germany, definitely. We’ve had that country inundated with bases for nearly a century

Brother, this isn’t Pravda

Congress declares war. Not the executive branch

Congress authorized enormous discretion to the president under the NDAA and AUMF. There’s no actual need to declare war in the modern era.

Congress declares war, not the President.

Congress has already authorized the President to deploy military units at the president’s discretion, per the AUMF which renews biannually under the NDAA

Japan Taiwan Philippines South Korea

Are client states under the occupation of the US military. They aren’t worried the US might fall to act. They’re worried the US might act to remove their leaders and replace them with more pliant ones.

Nuclear proliferation will follow

Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?

Why would the US allow them to do so?

Aren’t things like Article 5 basically a ride-or-die pact that obligates member nations to come to eachother’s defense?

They aren’t self enforcing. Someone at the Pentagon actually has to give the order to mobilize

Two-State Solution has never been viable for the same reason Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan have never been viable outside the sphere of Israeli influence. Any state that isn’t aligned with Israel is targeted for a combination of assassinations/bombings and infiltration/regime change.

Why would an “independent” Palestine be any different? A popular government would never be allowed to rule. At best, you’d have an Egyptian style military dictatorship or Jordanian monarchy which rules the public with an iron fist. At worst, you’d have a Libya or Yemen, where the native government is merely a proxy for the Israelis to continue their genocide of the local population.

Sure. But that administrative overhead goes somewhere - typically to private consulting firms and third party private administrative groups. So its very lucrative if you’ve got the ear of the President and a media-environment that’s good at playing Three Card Monty with your voters.

Everyone hates migrants, pensioners don’t add labor to the economy, and now a friendly consulting firm is invested in giving the current administration kickbacks to keep their contract going. Win-Win-Win.

:-/

Tell that to Ukraine.

I have become desensitized

Weird that hearing about fascism has left you incapable of identifying fascists. I never see your type have this problem with Muslims, Feminists, or Tankies.

That sounds amazing.

It sounds arbitrary and heavily weighted to favor the smaller cantons. Same problem we have with the US Senate and the filibuster. Representatives for a meager 30M voters can obstruct policy championed by the other 300M

both look fine, I don’t care enough to vote

Voter suppression in the United States

Past that, it is very weird to insist a less-than-perfect turnout in a Blue States was a vote for Trump. And God help you if you had the nerve to vote third party. This was somehow a vote for both Trump and Harris, through the eyes of the opposition parties.

Harris shed over 10M votes relative to Biden, and Democrats still don’t want to ask why. It’s always a betrayal of the party by the voters. Politicians never seen to have any duty to the people.

The Cheeto will be buried by the trump/Epstein files soon enough

A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

Shrug

The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.

Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.