Anonymous
ID: /ylXULUd
8/20/2025, 9:17:01 AM No.513521508
17:30—17:40
>"... We haven't won any wars since 1945, unless you count the Gulf War [1991], so... I don't think we're doing anything right. Including ['night raids'] assassinations."
18:10—20:04
>"I think a lot of people—including people who are anti-war, and would prefer to see a more isolationist foreign policy—complacently assume that because we spend ungodly amounts of money on our military, a trillion dollars this year on the national defense budget, that whatever else you think of our foreign policy, at least we have the world's most powerful military."
>"That assumption goes largely unexamined. And the reality is, we don't."
>"I was just at Trump's military parade in Washington D.C., a magazine sent me to cover that. And a lot of those troops were from Fort Bragg. You may have seen on TV what a joke the parade turned out to be. How disorganized, how unimpressive it was. And the technology that was on display: people expected it to be this 'fascistic' spectacle, this authoritarian spectacle like you might see in North Korea, or whatever. But I was looking at the troops going by, not even marching in step, the Bradley fighting vehicles which are 40 years old and performed very poorly, haven't been replaced with anything new; same goes for the Abrams tank that's been in service for more than 40 years. The Black Hawk helicopter—just before the parade a [UH-60] had crashed into a passenger plane over the Potomac River, killed 68 people; worst aviation disaster since 2001."
>"I'm looking at all of this and thinking, 'man our Army is in sorry, sorry shape.' And that was the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, because the Army actually predates the Constitution and predates the creation of our nation. To me it is very worrisome to see the state of decline and disrepair in which it is currently languishing. And I think the stuff that's going on at Fort Bragg is highly symptomatic of just that."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9n3pXFEVMg
>"... We haven't won any wars since 1945, unless you count the Gulf War [1991], so... I don't think we're doing anything right. Including ['night raids'] assassinations."
18:10—20:04
>"I think a lot of people—including people who are anti-war, and would prefer to see a more isolationist foreign policy—complacently assume that because we spend ungodly amounts of money on our military, a trillion dollars this year on the national defense budget, that whatever else you think of our foreign policy, at least we have the world's most powerful military."
>"That assumption goes largely unexamined. And the reality is, we don't."
>"I was just at Trump's military parade in Washington D.C., a magazine sent me to cover that. And a lot of those troops were from Fort Bragg. You may have seen on TV what a joke the parade turned out to be. How disorganized, how unimpressive it was. And the technology that was on display: people expected it to be this 'fascistic' spectacle, this authoritarian spectacle like you might see in North Korea, or whatever. But I was looking at the troops going by, not even marching in step, the Bradley fighting vehicles which are 40 years old and performed very poorly, haven't been replaced with anything new; same goes for the Abrams tank that's been in service for more than 40 years. The Black Hawk helicopter—just before the parade a [UH-60] had crashed into a passenger plane over the Potomac River, killed 68 people; worst aviation disaster since 2001."
>"I'm looking at all of this and thinking, 'man our Army is in sorry, sorry shape.' And that was the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, because the Army actually predates the Constitution and predates the creation of our nation. To me it is very worrisome to see the state of decline and disrepair in which it is currently languishing. And I think the stuff that's going on at Fort Bragg is highly symptomatic of just that."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9n3pXFEVMg
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