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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 6 points 5 hours ago
[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Oh, well thats nice of them, I guess. Who is Mexico attacking?

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, roght out of Isreals play book, invade a country on the basis of eliminating terrorists/gangs

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ehm... the US doesn't need to use someone's else's copy of the book they wrote.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago

Pretty much every nation with an army has attack plans against its' neighbours, just in case. Actually using them, of course, is quite another thing. Unless you need to be really on your toes because of an unpredictable, aggressive and vicious southern neighbour like -not to name anyone- Austria.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 36 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When current news gives you flashbacks to the Cyberpunk 2077 lore. The names and dates are different but the trends and events match enough to give the uncanny feeling. Agencies in the streets being deployed, USA in trade war losing irrelevance, going for the Central American war and then losing. By the way, that's why cybernetic limbs got so good, they needed them to patch up the soldiers from that war.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

How does one lose irrelevance?

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 11 points 14 hours ago

By gaining relevance!

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[–] Mortoc@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anything to distract from the Epstein files.

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

Are those similar to the Trump-Epstein files?

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

drawing up

Doesn't DoD have detailed attack plans for every nation already?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yes but this is a bad headline. The article is about specifically using US military to attack cartels, which the Trump administration has already made legal for themselves by recategorizing them as terrorists.

It is still a violation of both international law and common sense.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I imagine most militaries have contingency plans against enemies and allies ready to go. Wouldn't be much of a defensive force without them. (I know that the US is not a defensive force. I live here. We will 100% take over your country for borderline no reason.)

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes.

Well, not necessarily detailed. Like I'm sure the plan for an invasion of Uruguay is basically nonexistent, while one for war with China is comprehensive.

Plans for a zombie apocalypse have also been created at least once as an exercise. It's good practice for an emergency situation.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Airborne Rabies wouldn't be that dissimilar from zombies. Pretty sure there's a tabletop for that.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

We've got that in Australia!

note: It's 'not rabies' (it's Bat Lyssavirus, which is 'totally not rabies'*) and it's 'airborne' since they're bats :P

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 26 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

The US isn’t ready for a two front war where the whole world wants to get rid of them. They don’t have the cards.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

Please... I'm not a big fan of the US right now either. But that is just an absurd claim. No one is going to willingly open up a front against the US.

Like it or not, but they absolutely have the cards.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

US doctrine since WWII has been to have the muscle to fight on two major fronts and one brush fire. We've gone down to one major front.

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (13 children)

He's trying to imitate Putin. Probably go about as well as it has for Putin as well.

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[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why? What's even the end goal? A war to stay in office maybe?

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

If this was a competent president. I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt.

But we all know Trump only cares about one thing. And it's not the US. It's himself.

He may very well be under the impression that it will somehow give him more time in office, or it's just some way for him to try and get better approval rating. How he is percieved by the US is of major importance to his ego.

He hates how his approval is lower than Obamas. And he probably hates how his approval is lower than G.W.Busch.

G.W.Busch had an approval rating of around ~60%. Then a certain incident happened and his approval went to as high as 92% at a certain time.

Trump might, for some reason. Think that him starting/provoking a war will give him a similar boost.

Ofc to you and me it sounds insane and we know that's not going to improve his rating. But we are reasonable, normal people with common sense.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Martial Law is definitely on his wishlist.

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