If anything, it’s a milquetoast and meaningless statement.

This sounds eerily familiar. I’m picturing him in a bunker, yelling at his generals.

Fishing boats? Are they going to pull a reverse Dunkirk on Taiwan?

Only if the ingredient is HFCS.

You may want to check that link.

Containing China is the primary military objective of the US at the moment (other than defending domestic territory): https://www.csis.org/analysis/2026-national-defense-strategy-numbers-radical-changes-moderate-changes-and-some#h2-priorities-homeland-defense-then-deterring-china

Their forces currently deployed to the ME are nowhere near half of what they have in total.

Thanks. Would they take advantage of US distraction to move against TW? I doubt it - the US can easily fight another war on another front.

Paywalled - I can only see the first sentence.

TBH Grok would probably tell them to avoid “femoids” and work on semen retention to activate their redpill powers.

Go bring that sarcasm to Ukrainians - I’m sure they’ll love it.

OK then, but that’s still idiotic.

If so, that’s an idiotic strategy. It would be like Palestinians suicide-bombing EU countries to make them stop Israel’s war.

I think mostly selling Rafales, but I’m not French so I can’t speak to their motivations when choosing who to vote for.

Many on the left are under the misapprehension that being a pacifist must mean being defenceless.

Are you suggesting they simply ignore the defence treaties they signed with allies? Who do you think they are, Russia?

What exactly would they be defending? France is out of range.

I see the geopolitics understanders have logged on…

The carrier is there strictly in a defensive posture. no? I’m not aware of France being involved in any attacks on Iran.

That’s fine, they can survive on the large domestic market thanks to protectionist tariffs, and Americans can enjoy their very own Trabant equivalents

NYT stop sanewashing Trump challenge (impossible)

And this is why anybody who made a mistake in the past should be shunned forever, regardless of their current views and actions. They may as well just jump off a bridge and save us the trouble of setting up a firing squad.