The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

[Rigby5]

James Earl !


Even if technically true, a misleading representation.
Numerous reports from multiple sources indicate China is building up 3rd millennium military capability including a blue-water navy.

Additional reports describe China's continuing escalating aggressions apparently choreographed to prepare to invade and conquer Taiwan. None the less, China's record is far more peaceful than the U.S.'.


James Earl, a very good man. Not a very good president. But he's nailed the guns / butter debate here.

There are a couple reasons why China's military is more practical than ours.
One is that ours is foreign deployed, all over the world, which costs over 4 times more than domestic deployment.
China also has about 4 times the population, so the per capita costs are much lower.
China also avoids actual military conflict, which changes the cost of any operation by at least a factor of 4.
China just has to watch the South China Sea, which is right offshore and very inexpensive to patrol.
The US is spread out from Greenland to Yemen.

What is odd is most people think of Carter as being too weak of a president, but I think that the reason the media trashed him was because he was the only president to try to take on corruption like California stealing water from nearby states.
The failed Operation Eagle Claw should never have happened, and Carter should have instead explained to the public what we had done to Iran in 1953.

 

[sear]

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A penny short is a deficit. A penny over is a surplus.

There's no more extravagant waste than a 2nd rate military. Gen. Horner

Problem is, we don't / can't know exactly to the penny how much U.S. military spending is enough. So we overdo it as we have done year after year for a quarter millennium.

The compounding problem is, after we spend $Billions on ostensibly defensive arms,
a mindless sabre-brandisher like Trump takes control, and more blood is shed.

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 12 June 1815

Oh T.J.,
wouldn't that have been nice !

 

[Rigby5]

3,001

A penny short is a deficit. A penny over is a surplus.

Problem is, we don't / can't know exactly to the penny how much U.S. military spending is enough. So we overdo it as we have done year after year for a quarter millennium.

The compounding problem is, after we spend $Billions on ostensibly defensive arms,
a mindless sabre-brandisher like Trump takes control, and more blood is shed.


Oh T.J.,
wouldn't that have been nice !

Its too bad military technology with drones, anti-missiles, etc. are so complex these days.
My opinion used to be that we did not even need a military since our population is so well armed that invasion would be impossible.
But these days someone could just take out our utilities from a distance, so I no longer see a way around an expensive military.
However, no one would make any profit from taking out our utilities, so it seems to me that our offensive capability is actually what is going to ensure we do get attacked.
Which is all very confusing, and makes our attacks on Venezuela and Iran even more disturbing.

 

[Rigby5]

President Donald Trump and his family suffered devastating financial losses after investing heavily in bitcoin, an analysis has found.
Forbes detailed the series of unfortunate events that resulted in the president and his two sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., seeing their crypto investments hemorrhage around $1 billion in the space of a year.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/markets/crypto/articles/trump-billion-dollar-bitcoin-blowout-153003014.html

The only thing I like about things like bitcoin is that they may allow for transactions to be less traceable?
An unsecured currency would otherwise seem like a horrific idea to me?