Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Something Is Changing in the US Military" video.

  1.  @angelogarcia2189  Not entirely accurate. The DoD lost focus on what the mission was: to capture Bin Laden. Once that was achieved, all other considerations were secondary and nominally irrelevant.
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  2.  @kristiansandsmark2048  Considering that they are unaccountable and unelected, that means they are answerable to nobody but themselves, no different than a dictatorship. Until those agencies are punished for their failures, we will continue to be plagued by incompetence and corruption.
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  3. Blind leading the blind.
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  4.  @MrWhitmen1981  Stalin and the Austrian painter micromanaged battlefield decisions just like LBJ would later do in Vietnam. When did Trump ever micromanage choices made on the battlefield? He didn't. Hel let his subordinates make the call and then held them to account if they screw up.
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  5. @Whinkle Fourth turning, also known as the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory. And I was born in 1984.
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  6. Thank you! Nobody wants to talk about how promotions among the flag officers are held as political leverage with the results being deleterious on the combat readiness of the force.
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  7. While Trump is left of Reagan, he is the closest to Reagan that the GOP has put up for president since the Gipper. Too many Rockefeller-Romney Republican RINOs.
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  8.  @angelogarcia2189  If your contention about a small number of troops in Afghanistan were true, then Kabul would NOT have fallen like it did. The DoD didn't even expect it as it was a repeat of the fall of Saigon and Phnom Penh in 1975.
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  9.  @jeffbob1776  Indeed. For the longest time, generals kept their politics to themselves. Somewhere along the line they broke that unspoken agreement.
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  10.  @theman9048  You didn't disprove his points.
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  11.  @yellowcard7139  Wow, talk about creepy psycho-stalker behavior on your part. Do you always behave like this to someone who has gotten under YOUR skin?
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  12.  @maritaschweizer1117  North Korea is no threat. And Russia has ALWAYS been in bed with Iran. Nothing has changed in the balance of power.
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  13.  @justmenotyou3151  Isostatic rebound. It is why Scandinavia's shorelines are receding after their ice caps melt. Much of Finland was underwater just 500 years ago.
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  14. You confused tactical and operational but are otherwise correct. The funnel is tactical -> Operational -> Strategic.
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  15. On what charge? The criminal cases are all falling apart under prosecutorial misconduct. And the ones he has "lost" are civil cases that don't result in prison. Even those will get overturned on appeal.
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  16.  @chrisdecokere2899  Or maybe his former advisors were all backstabbers. Everyone goes after the king if they see an opportunity to usurp his throne.
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  17.  @maritaschweizer1117  You are confusing Brandon with Orange Man. Everyone knows Trump is sharp as a tac while Joe Bite-Me is suffering from Dementia.
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  18.  @maritaschweizer1117  Trump is sharp as a tac, but I get it that you can't tell the difference between Orange Man and the invalid currently in the Whtie House.
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  19.  @somerandomguy4919  Funny because the bulk of the military draws from traditionally conservative areas. Liberals servicing in the military are the exception, not the norm. Consider this: legacy military families are generally of the nationalistic bent, a hallmark of conservatism.
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  20.  @yellowcard7139  You are making a distinction without a difference. Who provides security for the State Department? The DoD and State Department in some ways are independent of each other and in other ways act in unison. As for the withdraw of armed forces, that was entirely DoD.
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  21.  @yellowcard7139  Embassy security is provided by the United State Marine Corp, a part of the Department of Defense. The fact that you don't know that shows your ignorance on the subject. And the State Department RARELY uses PMCs in no small part because of the grey area they fall into regarding Mercenaries under the Geneva Convention.
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  22.  @yellowcard7139  The USMC has ALWAYS been responsible for Embassy security. Consulates, however, are a different matter. I can forgive you for not knowing the difference between the two. If you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," -Mark Twain.
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  23.  @yellowcard7139  You didn't teach me anything. You conflated the two to try and move the goalposts (logical fallacy). And whether I have worked at an embassy or not is an irrelevant red herring that has no bearing on the topic. It is an emotional appeal. My quick response leading you to make assumptions is yet another logical fallacy, this time an ad hominin personal attack. Either way, your use of those fallacies shows that you are desperate because someone debating merits would not need to resort to them to "win". Learn to code and debate.
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  24.  @brucegordon9007  The Senate acquitted him of insurrection during the January 6th Impeachment attempt.
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  25.  @_Alfa.Bravo_  From what? That is the same kind of justification all traitors make.
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  26.  @_Alfa.Bravo_  That isn't an argument, that is making excuses.
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  27. Funny, your first part of the UCJM is correct, but everything else is complete fantasy. The veterans didn't change their positions, YOU changed while they remained exactly where they have always been.
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  28. They can't be specific because all of their claims can just as easily be laid at the feet of others. They are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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  29. And it is all a farce. Isostatic Rebound is causing places in Scandinavia that were previously covered in ice to become higher elevation. Parts of Finland for example were completely underwater 500 years ago but are now high and dry.
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  30.  @justmenotyou3151  Storm surge has been around forever and known since antiquity. If people didn't build on stilts, that is on them. You would think people would have learned from Galveston, Texas after their 1900 super Hurricane.
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  31.  @LibertyFirst1789  Funny, because dictatorship is exactly what we have under a judiciary that doesn't respect its own rules of decorum. When trust in the legal system implodes because of political prosecutions, you get civil war. This is what the left has called for (no justice no peace, remember?) and when you plant the seeds of conflict, expect to reap the whirlwind.
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  32. Indeed, That flag officers push diversity sensitivity programs to cover their blunders and buck for promotion has had a deleterious effect on the military.
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  33.  @maloted1111  I hope you are being sarcastic about actually liking that. It is stuff like that which cause me to realize the real enemy wasn't Haji in the Middle East but our own leadership.
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  34.  @LibertyFirst1789  Pot meet kettle.
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  35.  @Jonny-uu7wf  Then why didn't Putin invade Ukraine while Trump was in office? Why did he wait until AFTER Trump left the White House? We can wait for your answer.
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  36. Same here. I joined the USAF in October of 2005 and already saw the wokeness and political motivation for promotion erode combat effectiveness. Our flag officers are all as worthless as a Russian General.
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  37. On what charge? The Georgia case is imploding, and even leftist lawyers admit that thew New York sham trial is beyond the pale.
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  38.  @McClane4Ever.  Republicans still oppose abortion, and LEGAL immigration. The party base hasn't changed, its leadership has gone further and further left, abandoning the values held by the people they are supposed to represent. What has changed is people like you have moved the Overton Window far to the left.
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  39.  @JT.Pilgrim  Wrong on BOTH counts. The DNC is LEFT of Justin Trudeau.
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  40.  @JT.Pilgrim  The DNC is left of Justin Trudeau. Don't fool yourself.
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  41. You are no independent, you are a liberal who just can't bring themselves to vote for the party. Until now, because your cult has told you to drink the kool-aid.
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  42.  @Develpup  Propaganda hit piece no different that the Russian Collusion Hoax.
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  43.  @maritaschweizer1117  You are confusing Trump with Biden. Trump is sharp as a tac. Joe Bite-Me is clearly suffering from Dementia.
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  44. Indeed. How quickly they forget that Hillary claimed the 2016 election was stolen.
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  45.  @doujinflip  When? The entire 2020 Biden campaign was that the 2016 election was stolen.
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  46. Ah, but healthcare is NOT a right. If it were, then people of Africa would be able to enjoy it without leaving their continent. Rights are inherent to people, not entitlements handed down from government. Rights granted by government can easily be taken away at the snap of the fingers.
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  47.  @GothPaoki  World Health Organization? The people who lied about the Wuhan Flu? The same organization that covered up a cholera outbreak in Ethiopia? THAT WHO? And you trust them to know what human rights are?
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  48.  @TheRealZeke2003  If you think "Human rights" are simply something that bureaucrats can legislate, you would be correct. But then what is the point of trials for crimes against humanity?
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  49.  @maritaschweizer1117  Everything. Not a single "fact" of theirs told the WHOLE story. Context matters.
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  50.  @maritaschweizer1117  Russian collusion was proven a hoax beyond a reasonable doubt. Even the media who pushed it have given up on those claims. You are in complete denial.
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  51.  @networkgeekstuff9090  It was a slow and painful fall. Cincinnatus, the Sulla tried to restore the Republic only to fail with Jullius seizing power.
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  52.  @networkgeekstuff9090  The cracks in the US system have been chipped at since the Progressive Era of the 1920s under Woodrow Wilson. Same people then are pushing the same things now, only they are more overt about what they are doing.
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  53.  @_Alfa.Bravo_  On what charge? The Georgia case is imploding. The New York case is going to get overturned on appeal and is so beyond the pale even liberal lawyers are calling it out.
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