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Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s director of national intelligence
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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Do you think that maybe being pro-Assad and praising Russia for backing him might make her a poor choice for the role she's been handed?
Nope. She got 52 out of 53 Republican votes. If you only listen to left wing media, you probably won't figure out why the Republicans don't have issues with her gender and race.
What does the number of votes have to do with her support of a ruthless dictator like Bashar Assad? All that proves is that Republicans are fine with her supporting a horrible ruthless dictator that tortured and murdered countless people. You can make this about her race and gender all you like, but all you’re doing is ignoring the quotes of her saying literal things and support of both him and Russia in that article. Not that I’m surprised that you’re ignoring her actual words that she said. It makes it much easier to defend her if you ignore them. Not honest, but easier.
It shows that Republicans are willing to try something new after many decades of failed foreign policies.
The something new being support for ruthless dictators? Is that the sort of new thing you think is good?
The something new being stopping the forever wars.
Trump is literally threatening wars all over the planet right now. Are you really that ignorant about what is going on in your own country? What your own president is saying literally on a daily basis?
Have you seen the actual results? Very peaceful world in his first term.
We are less than a month after inauguration, he has already made good progress to try to end 2 wars that started when Biden was at the White House.
He was bombing Somalia two weeks ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrye506z1go
He has threatened to go to war with Panama, Greenland and fucking Canada.
Either you're ignorant of what Trump is doing or you're just lying. Neither is a good look.
Do you even know forever war means?
I know that Biden didn't start any wars and also that even if he did, they weren't in Somalia. Or Panama. Or Greenland. Or Canada.
You're really not good at being deceptive, so maybe you should stop trying.
Trump did not start wars against Panama, Greenland, or Canada. You don't get the facts right at all.
Under Biden, the world is a mess. Multiple big wars started under his watch.
I said he is threatening to start them. Read before you respond.
Also, the president, despite what you and Trump think, is not the emperor of the world and cannot stop other countries from starting wars. Trump won't be able to either if that's what some other country decides to do. He doesn't have magic powers like you seem to think he does.
We were talking about forever wars. LOL
Which wars in specific were the "forever wars" that Biden started that Trump then stopped? Which countries did Biden invade with the military he controls? Name them.
The wars that Trump is working to end, and on which he has made significant progress within less than one month of his inauguration, are the Israel-Hamas war and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Neither of those were started by Biden. Why did you say they were?
Also, what progress? Russia just drone bombed the Chernobyl concrete dome.
Started under Biden's watch.
It’s quite a denial to claim that Trump didn’t make significant progress in stopping that war.
Okay the Trump is responsible for all of these wars and military conflicts since they happened under his watch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamwina_Nsapu_rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_in_Rakhine_State_(2016%E2%80%93present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasese_clashes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Chad_(2016%E2%80%93present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932020_Qatif_unrest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Marawi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglophone_Crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Cabo_Delgado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Iraqi%E2%80%93Kurdish_conflict
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_clashes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLA_insurgency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2018_Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_clashes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2019_Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_clashes
Oh yeah, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_insurgency_in_Iraq_(2017%E2%80%93present)
I believe you described all of that as "very peaceful" earlier.
Looking forward to the explanation for how ISIS in Iraq isn't Trump's fault even though somehow it's Biden's fault that Russia invaded Ukraine.
Seems like you have problems figuring out that wars are at different scales. The Israel-hamas war and Russia-Ukraine wars are large scale wars. Not all wars are the same. Just common sense really.
You have not explained why none of those are Trump's fault and yet the wars you are talking about are Biden's fault. Please explain.
No need to explain. The vast majority of people would agree the world is much more peaceful under Trump's first term than under Biden's administration.
Nope. That's not an explanation for why all of the conflicts I listed including the war with ISIS in Iraq, which is still happening (sounds like a forever war to me) are not Trump's fault.
Trump have already won the argument on this.
I didn't ask for an argument, I asked for an explanation. Apparently you don't have one.
I already explained to you not all wars are at the same scale. Did you read?