If you read between the lines, Trump is saying he would have used nuclear weapons.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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This was my take also. I don't know if he's right or not, but I also don't care; nuclear weapons should never be used, period, end of sentence. To contemplate otherwise is madness.
I think he's referring more to what's happening in Gaza now. Not exactly nuclear weapons but removing the rules of engagement for soldiers. He's right too. It is much easier to slaughter an entire group of people when you're not trying to pretend that you're doing something less barbaric.
I'm not sure that's as profound of a statement as he seems to think it is but speculation about his thought process is a pretty pointless exercise anyway.
Shit, we've known this for decades. The CIA trained people in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa to do this since the 50s.
Fucking DEI programs and their checks notes combined arms warfare and counterinsurgency strategies!
(Even using this verbiage straight faced without a ton of asterisks gives the US the benefit of the doubt lol)
Oh, yeah. We took it so "easy" in Vietnam that Nixon also started illegally bombing neighboring Cambodia as well.
Ah yes, the famously politically correct Presidents we had in the tail end of Vietnam: Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon
Of course, our loss could also have been the fault of Dwight D. Eisenhower and JFK fucking up the war in the beginning. Everyone knows neither of those guys knew how to run a military or a successful foreign policy.
American exceptionalism / chauvinism is a hell of a drug
So war crimes, torture and genocide are back, baby! Yeaaaahhh!
Let's nuke entire cities again, just to send a message!
Let's go kill some babies for casual Friday, W00T W00T! USA USA USA!
Am i hitting the right tone here?
He'll likely start with Chicago.
Chicago might even get to experience the new battleships he wants to order! All the WW2 fanatics will rejoice
Wait what battleships?
When Trump and Hegseth yelled at their generals for being fat beardos Trump also, with seriousness he added, wanted the military to invest in old school battleships because they were more "aesthetically pleasing" and also cheaper to fire 🤷
Oh please do, please do. Nothing would make me laugh harder than that first battleship getting it's ass handed by some drone or missile that'll take it out easily
It's weird how battleships just went obsolete with the invention of missiles with 10 times the range of cannons even though they are so aesthetically pleasing?
But to be fair.. the US used a battleship as late as in the Gulf war. Albeit it was rebuilt to fire missiles lmao
I got curious and read about it and yeah it's as crazy as it sounds.
I never felt like this was a great argument against Trump, as draft dodging is based and hypocrisy on it's own isn't a moral failing.
I guess this works better with military types, or if you want to highlight the social detachment of his class privilege. But I try not to make arguments that incidentally consent to national militancy.
Trump was like Charlie Kirk and George W. Bush. All three were fervent patriots who whole-heartedly believed that the US should prevail. They all had a great excuse as to why they didn't go themselves.
And hypocrisy is a moral failing if it means you are willing to have people die.
It's the hypocrisy. You can use draft dodging as an argument against any right-winger even if you support draft dodging, because they don't.
He dodged the draft not for ethical reasons but because he is a coward and a narcissist who only cares about himself.
That's the difference here
I've got eyes like a bat and my feet are flat.
And my asthma's getting worse
Oh Alex Cole spam is here as well.. thought he lived on Reddit.