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That blame lands squarely on the Democrats, beginning with Carter and then accelerating with Clinton. While some Republicans share that blame, especially the Libertarian foreign policy wonks, it was those two administrations that explicitly set the stage for the mass exodus of US manufacture...

WW2 happened and England took some of the hardest fighting of that war. What folks are forgetting is that WW2 utterly devastated England and drained their financial reserves in ways no other war in their history had, and left them with little to no resources to draw on in order to rebuild...

Yeah, there's laws that prohibit manufacture of certain military equipment and items outside of the US. While the Federal government certain did things to enable offshoring, and the MIC has done shady shit in the past, hollowing out the private industry sector isn't something the MIC wanted...

You forgot two critical descriptors: Federal and Democratic. The US is a Federal Constitutional Representative Democratic Republic. To break it down: Federal - Sovereign power is divided between a central authority and a number of constituent political units (in the United States case those...

You do that, makes no difference to me. Others cannot control your wrong opinions as you've demonstrated many times.

I don't know if he's assigned to Ukraine or not, but I have no reason to doubt his posting, considering how long I've known and interacted with him.

He's an Army Intelligence Analysist. His job is literally to be looking at pictures and data from those frontline areas and provide information to higher ups as to "what's going on in this picture". In other words, of everyone here, he's actually one of the people most likely to KNOW if...

It doesn't mean they're off the hook... now they have the media playing "shit on the conservatives" as noted, but because they've had to do that it means that people on base are likely aware of the fuck up and it then becomes harder to keep quiet.

Actually Bacle, at this point they probably can't, as there's been to much hay made over it. That's why bringing these instances to light becomes critical, because once they become publicly known, it becomes much harder to blacklist people due to them and they have to start stretching more.

. . . OK, let me clarify something for you that it appears the American military is forgetting to teach you and, given their actions regarding Trump, even many of the Joint Chiefs seem to have forgotten. The US Military serves and is accountable to the Civilian Government. It does not get to...

Zach, while I normally sympathize with your defense of the military, this is both an indefensible act AND something you're not understanding how real world things like this work. Yes, on paper, they cannot hold participation against someone; however, anyone who does go and is found out will...

You want to know what's really fucked up? For Boomers and GenX, college was actually affordable, costs were not that extravagant and you could either work part time to pay for most of your college OR if you took some loans out you would generally get a job that allowed you to pay back those...

No, the leftist conquest of academia came long before than in the US. You see, in the US the majority of elite colleges were actually religious institutions founded by various Christian Churches. In the late 19th and early 20th century you saw the rise of a group of "intellectuals" in the...

Depends on where they're deployed. In some areas the local housing would be a considerable benefit, like any of the bases in the DC Metro area, of the San France Naval Yard. And then there is 29 Palms, where those assigned to housing should receive hazard pay.

This isn't really true. The Han Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty, all ethnic Han dynasties, saw considerable expansion of "China". That said, the modern shape of China was heavily influenced by the Yuan and Qing Dynasties, which were not ethnically Han (the first being Mongol and the...

Did you miss the part where China and India have already clashed over their borders and that from the Indian perspective China is a malicious actor who's undermined existing agreements? While India was colonized by England, in the long run the West has actually been a much fairer actor to them...

Why should it have been? The Qing Dynasty, for all the Chinese like to claim their territory as theirs, wasn't a Chinese dynasty. The rulers of the Qing were a semi-nomadic steppe people from Manchuria, the Manchu, and were an ethnic minority ruling over a Han Chinese majority and did many...

. . . Camp Lejeune is a Marine Corps Base... one of the Big Three along with Pendleton and Quantico. Though that does kinda help your point. If the Army is getting the blame for things that are the fault of the Corps... That said, I know from personal experience that there were serious mold...

This is actually a bad idea with how the military is presently structured (Also, the military has always used contractors to supplement in support roles from manufacture to administrative going even back to the Revolutionary War). The core issue is though that the military constantly rotates...