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So why are we funding both sides of this war? Yes. We. Are.

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What if the pier is just to get terrorists out and on their way to Michigan and Minnesota.....escape route as no one else will take them - maybe they arrive in September / October just in time for.......

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This is going to go very, very bad, I bet.

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Bets that Warrant-in-Command gets saddled with a Legion-of-Merit-Seeking 06 Supercargo?

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At least it's not an ESB sitting off the coast of Gaza.

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(Profanity) how in (profanity) is putting Americans in a (profanity) war zone going giving “humanitarian” aid to a (profanity) DESIGNATED FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION is good idea?

Are we trying to get Americans killed? That’s what it looks like to me. That group is still holding American hostages and consider Americans to be the second best people to kill, if DC has forgotten.

No, it’s time society learned what war looked like. This is was dead Carl called unlimited war, as Israel knows that loosing means they are no longer a country.

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Great information video. Difficult and expensive to do in a benign, surveyed, exercise environment. Obviously, this is anything but. Risk management is multilevel and hierarchal here: operational (military risk / security) at lower level, political risk management (NCA) above that.

Kind of like Afghanistan, where political decisions by civilian leaders over-rode the advice given by our senior military leaders.

Or, so we are told. I'm sure that's how AFG unfolded. Totally sure. Hope this one works out better.

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Love your Substack and podcast! Hey, you mention X. What's your X name? I found several with various combinations of CDR and Salamander. Cheers!

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Mar 11·edited Mar 11

This is how the Lebanon bombing and the Somalia "Blackhawk Down" operations began... Do our leaders understand that we are targets here and if so, do they just not care. We saw this with the Afghan withdrawal. And what of our military leaders who accede. Do we trust them?

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Mar 11Liked by CDR Salamander

This makes me a Very Angry Badger. Why are we going to support Evil. How can anyone be so foolish as to not realize that ALL the aid will go directly to Hamas?

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This is the most myopic commitment of one of the MOST limited capabilities in the Army inventory.

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I expect the Houthi, Hamas will attack it.

Gazans will swim out or take a boat and swarm it then loot it.

So if this happens does mission creep begin?

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Twitter is, predictably, having a normal one over this.

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What's the force protection package? Sternly worded memos?

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Let’s face it, after the Michigan primaries, the People Smarter Than You (tm) really running the Executive Branch in POTUS's name (Which, see: Woodrow Wilson and actual First Woman POTUS) panicked over their precious polling. Let’s just call this what it is: Operation Dearborn Votes.

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Forget Heinlein's Crazy Years. These are the Stupid Years.

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