Saturday, January 18, 2025

When you cross a border and "confiscate" another nation's armaments, it is stealing stuff, nothing less.

https://x.com/IDF/status/1879564125648327017?mx=2

UPDATE: Two related things: the repo and redeployment of our arms out of Lybia after Gdaffi Muammar Gaddafi was "Arab Spurng" from power and from his life was different, (deep state meddling -- and a Clinton problem made that by Republicans).

Then, leaving stuff for the Taliban in exiting Afghanistan on the Trump-set timetable recognizes Afghanistan's bordering Iran as a reality where armed Taliban might discourage neighborhood adventuring.

Entering and exiting military events/situations may each have its own details. If Israel exits Syria, which is anything but a certainty of exiting without some accretion of land in border reshaping movements before exiting, there is the valid claim of neighborhood policing, not stealing.

Trump/Hegseth assurance of no more unending wars in other nations is good news, but then troops might be freed to deploy stateside, which is a feared and loathed possibility. Call it that, not a probability, since the first hundred days is by tradition a "honeymoon." But U.S. troops on the streets and soil of the U.S. conducting anything called "policing" is wrong. That it is wrong is a certainty, that it might happen, a possibility. Leave it there for now, and we'll see.