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Trump administration 2024-2028

Just posted on FB:
"From 32 Alpha TF 1-08 - American OH 58 helicopter crew used to fight over who would fly overwatch on 32 Alpha. This doesn't sound like a section who would hang back and lounge around. So Donny boy take your bone spurs and ride off into the sunset. Don't go away mad - just go away."

I hope the motherfucker reads it
 
brihard said:
Then you get the U.S., which while being NATO’s most powerful and wealthiest member, is also heavily motivated by its own global hegemony. The U.S. has interest in the security of Europe for the economic stability; it has interest in the Arctic both for its sphere of influence and of course to cover against missiles and bombers coming over the top. But then the U.S. also has a lot of forces in the Middle East, some, clearly, focused on central and South America, and a very substantial posture in the Indo-Pacific. China and Iran are not likely to pose threats that fall under the NATO treaty. And again, yes, the U.S. can repurpose, at any point in time, much of their forces to a war in Europe… But it still means much of their spending isn’t for NATO purposes.
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Agree fully. I’m trying to find my records where I crunched the math of where US DoD was spending its 3.6% GDP, re: NATO - M.E. - ASIAPAC - LATAM - AFRICA - RoW, but I think the numbers showed NATO had about “only” 1.3-1.4% GDP. Notably less than several committed NATO countries…
 
Note to comms department/info-machine staff: the FB image becomes more credible if the animal or bird portrayed actually lives in the area being highlighted. Or you have to make it clearer that the penguin walked aaaaaaaaaaall the way from Antarctica. Graphics & slogan grade: fail.
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The Bread Guy said:
Note to comms department/info-machine staff: the FB image becomes more credible if the animal or bird portrayed actually lives in the area being highlighted. Or you have to make it clearer that the penguin walked aaaaaaaaaaall the way from Antarctica. Graphics & slogan grade: fail.
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Accurate or not, we could only hope that Trump walks away into the wilderness.
 

Joint Chiefs Chairman Issues Rare Invitation to Foreign Military Heads​

Top military leaders from 34 countries plan to discuss improving efforts in the Western Hemisphere to fight drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.

www.nytimes.com

Joint Chiefs Chairman Issues Rare Invitation to Foreign Military Heads

Top military leaders from 34 countries plan to discuss improving efforts in the Western Hemisphere to fight drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

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More hybrid warfare targets.

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Other side of the Atlantic

www.telegraph.co.uk

Local police forces can’t tackle modern crime, Mahmood believes

Home Secretary raises concerns current 43-force structure ‘buckling under the strain’
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

"She believes that the 43 forces are “too fragmented” and often lack the capability and expertise to combat digitally savvy, organised criminals operating across borders."

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"Police chiefs are also calling for a single overarching police body to bring together the National Crime Agency (NCA), counter-terrorism police, regional serious organised crime squads and the City of London fraud centre.

The Government analysis suggests these crime types are “increasingly interconnected”.

“An example of this is the increasing use of serious organised crime groups by states such as Russia to carry out sabotage acts in the UK and across Europe. Whether it be arson or cybercrime – these are cross portfolio threats,” a source said.

Fraud, which now accounts for more than four million crimes a year, is also often led by overseas scammers “with no respect for constabulary boundaries” while online child abuse and violence against women had nearly doubled in a decade."

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Hybrid warfare demands paramilitary responses. Just ask the Carabinieri.


Polizia di StatoState PoliceCivilian policePatrolling, investigative, immigration control, administrative and law enforcement duties[5][6][7]
CarabinieriCarabinersGendarmerie; militarized police constituting the fourth branch of the Italian armed forces.Patrolling, investigative, and law enforcement duties outside the larger urban areas. Also military police for the Italian Armed Forces.[6][7]
Guardia di FinanzaFinancial GuardMilitarized police not part of the Italian armed forces.Dealing with financial crime, smuggling, illegal drug trade, patrolling Italy's territorial waters, maintaining public security, and other duties.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Polizia PenitenziariaPrison PolicePrison officerControlling penitentiaries and inmate transfers[7][6]
Guardia CostieraCoast GuardCoast guard; militarized police belonging to the Italian Navy.Undertaking maritime patrolling duties[11]
Polizia LocaleLocal PoliceCivillian policePatrolling, investiga

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Kirkhill said:
www.stripes.com

US Marines gear up for Cold Response exercise in Norway despite heated Greenland rhetoric

Thousands of U.S. Marines along with other American troops are gearing up for large-scale combat drills centered on the defense of Norway.
www.stripes.com www.stripes.com

Continuity.
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More Americans for the Finnish to dominate. ;)
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One military source noted that in last year’s Joint Viking exercise in northern Norway, American troops struggled.

Exercise commanders had to ask Finnish reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them,” a military source said.
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HavokFour said:
More Americans for the Finnish to dominate. ;)
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"Stop treating them like the Soviets, boy-ko ..."
Kirkhill said:
It's hard to get angry at a kid from Tennessee when he is freezing.
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That's true, although I remember YEARS ago, hosting some Army NG from Minnesota for winter training in the 807 area code, and they seemed just as surprised at how cold it was and how hard everything was to do, even though they get the same winter as here. It was especially brisk for the poor US-RSS-equivalent who'd just been posted in from Hawaii :)
 
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