Posted on 02/06/2023 11:47:21 AM PST by Nextrush
The all weather hospital can be deployed in 40 minutes and is capable of handling up to 100 patients
MOSCOW, February 6./TASS/. Russia's emergencies ministry said on Monday it has sent an airmobile hospital to help those hurt in the devastating earthquake in Turkey...
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Wait, so now the RUSSKIES are responding to actual worldwide catastrophes, not the USA?
Biden is still waiting for permission from China before he sends help.
Will Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse be allowed into Turkey? The don’t have much fanfare, but they do mighty work in emergencies and Samaritan’s Purse will go if the Muslim’s will allow them into the country.
“Wait, so now the RUSSKIES are responding to actual worldwide catastrophes, not the USA?”
We’re responding.
We have an Air Force base close by that has already made its hospital and medical services available. More help is on the way.
Thanks for sharing that!
Since we maintain close to 1000 military installations world wide, that is the least we can do.
I am impressed with our ability to maintain so many foreign military installations with borrowed money. We have amazing ability to borrow and spend in foreign countries.
It’s called national security.
We should cut spending for woke social bull@#$% and bailing out union pensions and fiscally irresponsible states.
What is the Ukraine sending?
Turkey’s BFF Russia is helping them out. That’s nice.
What security? Did Vietnam attack us? Did Iraq attack us? Did Taliban send pilots to attack tall buildings? Did Russia send spy balloons?
You are low level of geo-poolitical knowledge and typical neocon who just want foreign wars going on BORROWED MONEY. It is disgusting.
I despise people like you spending MY TAX MONEY for imaginary enemies.
“What security? Did Vietnam attack us? Did Iraq attack us? Did Taliban send pilots to attack tall buildings? Did Russia send spy balloons?”
In your post #7, you said: “I am impressed with our ability to maintain so many foreign military installations with borrowed money. We have amazing ability to borrow and spend in foreign countries.”
I responded to your post#7 with my post #8: “It’s called national security. We should cut spending for woke social bull@#$% and bailing out union pensions and fiscally irresponsible states.”
My post #8 is self-explanatory: We have bases or installations — from very large to very small to tiny — all over the globe. THAT, son, is national security. We get to keep tabs on what is going on around the world and ascertain how it affects us. It’s called being prepared. And that is smart.
“You are low level of geo-poolitical knowledge and typical neocon who just want foreign wars going on BORROWED MONEY. It is disgusting.”
I am light years ahead of you, son, in terms of geo-political knowledge. I deal with facts, and reality, and the real world. I don’t live in a Pollyanna world populated by unicorns and angels who dance on the head of a pin. I recognize the world as a very dangerous place full of people who wish us harm, most for no other reason than they want what we have. Mankind exists in a world that sits atop a bubbling and boiling and festering cauldron of savagery and barbarism and slaughter and hate; and the only thing that keeps that horror from consuming us all is a very, very thin and fragile crust called civilization; and civilization exists only as long as people fight for it, and preserve it; because that is the price.
“I despise people like you spending MY TAX MONEY for imaginary enemies.”
I really don’t care what you think.
In any event, you need to take a chill pill.
“Since we maintain close to 1000 military installations world wide,”
Sort of. A friend, a crewman on an Air Force Cargo plane was rapidly deployed just prior to the Gulf War. She was shocked to find they’d landed on a tiny Island in the Mediterranean with an abandoned but functional runway and a couple of tiny disused buildings. Turns out this was one of those military installations. In Conversation with a base activation crew that had arrived before them this was one of hundreds of “bases” that are essentially just landing strips and a handful of buildings that can be rapidly activated with generators, imported fuel, tents, etc. This was turned into a fueling stop for planes that didn’t have the legs to get all the way into theater and couldn’t for one reason or another be air refueled. She spent weeks there and this tiny Iland was turned into a huge tent city. (The landing strip was left over from WWII.)
I’m not real fond of VOX but here’s their piece on America’s 800 overseas bases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU8rQWh_qtc
“The all weather hospital can be deployed in 40 minutes and is capable of handling up to 100 patients”
We would do the same, but first Turkey must LEGALIZE gay marriage and child grooming.
United States is border-line insane spending $900 Billion on military, and more Billions on 1000 welfare programs including woke issues.
No wonder China now owns more than a thousand American outfits, vast chinks of agricultural land and mines world over, and are our landlords of our national debt.
It is because of people like you who are either full neocon or financial dunces. If you think you know geo-political issues, I have a beach front property in Arizona to sell you. If you think the national debt is just a small problem, you are a financial dunce. If you think we should be BORROWING money to fight Russia in Ukraine, you are even bigger fool than I expected.
You are exactly what president Eisenhower warned us about.
Why maintain a SINGLE base on foreign lands when we are more in debt than 150 countries of the world combined?
Do you have any idea how much INTEREST US Treasury will be paying out in fiscal year 2023? It is well north of half a Trillion dollars. And it will go much higher in fiscal 2024 due to FED funds rate nearing 5% in 2023.
Fighting foreign wars on borrowed money is the quickest path to demise. We need to build our industry and productive manufacturing instead of spending money on foreign wars.
“Why maintain a SINGLE base on foreign lands when we are more in debt than 150 countries of the world combined?”
It would take a hundred thousand words to unpack the strategy and tactics the US uses to keep America safe in the modern world. Way too much to attempt in an FR post, but here’s my go at it. We are living with the legacy of the cold war. Before WWII the world was imperial. There was a collection of empires and they had colonies. The French navy patrolled the seas to protect French trade and the British protected the British trade. After the war the US got the allies together and decided that the US would patrol the seas for everybody and even throw open the only significant market that still existed, the US market so everyone would export themselves back to prosperity.
It was as if every country had won WWII on their own. There was one catch. The US got to write their security policy. We bribed-up an alliance to fight the Soviets. This led to the largest expansion of trade and population the world has EVER seen. But when the cold war ended, we never had a conversation about what we wanted out of the world. From president to president we just stumbled on clinging to the old cold war strategy while America turned inward and went politically nuts. (BLM, “trans,” insane border policies, etc.)
As far as those tiny bases, and I worked for companies that supported some of them, they are worth their weight in gold. For example, there are areas of the globe where our low Earth orbit satellites are out communications. Some of those bases are in incredibly remote areas and have only a satellite up-link/down-link giving the US full time communications with them. That and the fact that America can use those bases to deploy troops and supplies anywhere in the world quickly makes it very unlikely that America’s enemies would attack us. If we didn’t have those bases American citizens would be at much greater risk. Face it, America is a hegemon. This fact means that America can spend huge amounts, sometimes unwisely, yes, but during the pandemic America poured more stimulus money into America’s economy than the entire rest of the world combined. That’s because America is a hegemon and the US dollar is the defacto world currency. Suddenly giving up all of those bases and being a hegemon would mean all those dollars floating around the world would come home. There are many more dollars in foreign accounts than there are in the US economy. Imagine the inflation spike that would cause. The US is integrated with the world and if it suddenly wasn’t, as it appears your post suggests, then America and Americans would be at much greater risk. Someone would rise up to take our place. That is the nature of things. And, to prove they’d taken our place they’d have to wipe us off the map. It would be best to avoid that as we could likely have avoided WWII if the world empires had taken a leading role rather than trying to keep out of the fight and mind their own business. Sometimes you must appear strong in order to avoid a more dangerous fight.
The US sanctions against Syria are going to get in the way of helping Syria recover.
https://www.state.gov/syria-sanctions/
Even the Atlanticists are against the Syria sanctions [January 13, 2023]:
One problem with the children running our illegitimate "government":
You wrote: That’s because America is a hegemon and the US dollar is the defacto world currency."
Stealing the money of people and countries is going to put a real dent in the status of the US dollar as defacto world currency.
I can see a lot of countries wising up and getting their assets out of the reach of the lawless hegemon.
It is very simple...we are BROKE and can’t afford foreign military indulgence. All we should be doing is build defensive military. Urgently we should Move those foreign military installations to our southern border. That is where the invasion is coming.
We have no money to maintain military in Korea or Germany.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia have not sent any invaders to our country. 911 terrorists were all Saudi’s inspired by Al-Qaeda, not the Afghan gov’t. Only spy balloons are coming from China.
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