and how can she be jewish when both of her parents are not?
and how can she be jewish when both of her parents are not?
Here y’all saying there ain’t no hell, ain’t sure about heaven. And if you do something wrong you got to figure it out yourself. And as far as God’s concerned, it’s your job to keep asking questions and to keep learning and to keep arguing. It’s like a verb. It’s like you do God.
Because Trump decides who is Jewish and who isn't.
I remembering reading of trump's books. he said he should pull all the american military forces out of europe and rely on the threat of nuclear missiles in order to control europe. do you really want this guy as president?
We should certainly be willing to significantly lower our presence there, or at least consider it.
When it comes to Europe, our presence is wasted money. We're part of NATO, and an invasion of Europe guarantees our involvement no matter what, so whether we maintain a bunch of bases or not isn't incredibly relevant because the invader (in this climate) is totally fucked as soon as they step over the line.
With Japan... China as it currently stands isn't going to risk the economic damage of a war like that, but I suppose you could make the argument that the relationship could shift at some point in the future. I don't know. I'm not going to say that I know we should pull out of Asia because I don't know this. But I do think that we shouldn't be maintaining military bases based on momentum alone. There needs to be a meaningful threat.
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i don't think you make a good argument by saying the existence (or not) of our bases in europe makes no difference if we suddenly need military force in that region (europe)
@Lunamaria The main contention is generally that Europeans should be footing the bill to defend Europe, rather than Americans. When U.S. forces are deployed in bases in Germany, it isn't the citizens of Berlin and Munich that are paying for them, it's the citizens of New York City and Houston.
The NATO recommendation for defence spending is 2% of GDP. The only European member of NATO that spends that much is the United Kingdom. The American taxpayer is left to pay, literally, for Europe's pacifism.
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we should be footing the bill. We are the world's most developed country. America is the symbol of world wellness and morality. As such, we should be the ones who should most invest in the well-being of others. It's why we have such a big military -- why members of our military are the most educated soldiers on the planet. For the past sixty years, we have taught ourselves in schools that america's virtuous place in the world is a symbol as well as a real force.
If we suddenly decide that we are no longer responsible for the well-being of others (japan, europe, everywhere else where we have military bases and military presence), we might as well start teaching in our schools that the wars that we've fought since and including World War II (Korean, Vietnam) were also wrong as well. How can we suddenly decide it's no longer our duty or our task when our very history has shown ourselves to be exactly the opposite? When the people in charge of our nation and thus the people who voted those politicians in have decided that we ought to take a very active role in maintaining the world's well-being?