Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.

The headlines are getting more absurd: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Ahh, good. You never know nowadays 🫣

Brilliant? Interesting take…

Hegseth ousts US Army chief of staff and two other generals amid Iran war | CNN Politics Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday fired the US Army chief of staff and two other generals as the Iran war continues.

When you want a ground war, but the military leadership disagrees….
www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/p...

It took him only 5 weeks to admit he wants their oil 🙄

You forgot some …

Joint operation with Europol and several European countries initiated by the Biden administration

Haha, I approve 😉. not likely though when he can wear a buttoned shirt

yes, I know it’s an expression 🙄. The US being part of a long term international operation in Ecuador, together with Europol and several European countries, to counteract a large drug cartel is good news.

reading up on a subject before making statements would stop your head from spinning

Please read the article before commenting 🙄. Has nothing to do with war

There is no new war. Just a planned operation, also including several European countries.

Please stop commenting on stuff if you haven’t bothered to read up on what is actually going on. Nothing to do with a new war, but planned operation also including several European countries 🙄

Sure, we could try diplomacy—right after we finish stirring the hornet’s nest and asking them to calm down about it

Didn’t know this. Thanks

This is actually quite normal in the history of the US: Grenada, Panama, Kosovo, Lybia, etc etc, all without congress being involved.

Iran has vowed to retaliate. The world may be on the edge of something far more serious than we’ve seen in decades… if not longer.

When you call a nation a strategic partner, while it treats dissent as treason, you’re not just compromising your values — you’re compromising your judgment. At some point, you have to ask yourself what exactly you’re partnering with. After all, they were the ones pushing for the strike on Iran.

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

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When Russia attacked Ukraine, sanctions were imposed quickly. Can we expect a similar response this time? Rhetorical question of course, we all know the answer.

I can think of a few….

To be fair, the last time congress declared a war was WW2...

So let me get this straight: a regime that represses its own people gets attacked by a country with a genocide on its résumé, teamed up with another country that happily brutalizes both foreigners and citizens, all because they’re worried the first regime might want the same nuclear toys they have

Imo, he doesn’t need to do any of these things. There is no way he won all swing states last time, hence they know of a way to manipulate the results without having to resort to the scenarios you describe.

He doesn’t have Alzheimer’s, but frontotemporal dementia fits perfectly

true! and when you mention that peaceful protests wont bring down a new authoritarian regime, people call you a bot

IMO, the system is the problem, not the companies as such. And many Americans prefer lower taxes even if it means higher healthcare costs, while many European countries fund cheaper care through 30–40% income taxes. You can’t have both low taxes and low healthcare prices, unfortunately

FDA nowadays can’t be trusted anymore, and the FDA had no regulatory authority over tobacco until 2009, as it wasn’t a drug.

As I mentioned before, that’s a failure of the U.S. pricing system, not something inherent to the drug itself. It doesn’t change the fact that Novo reinvests a large share of its profits into R&D and funds basic research globally.

US lobbying power affects pricing laws, patent protections, Medicare negotiation rules, and regulatory burdens. It does not mean companies can simply “buy” drug approvals or suppress safety data within the FDA process. The influence is structural and political, not an override of scientific review.