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For fun, follow @realDonaldTrump's trajectory and me if there is consistency or direction other than disaster mismanagement. He creates conflict, fails and then reverses himself, leaving his supporters looking like fools and his followers baffled. realclearpolitics.com/timeline/presi…
@realDonaldTrump The media loves Trump because they have to google er...research statements and find a rich landscape of random attention seeking statements, errors, insults, fibs and controversial statements not to mention over 40,000 tweets. nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…
@realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump tweets an average of 15 times a day. A max of 87 tweets in 24hrs and only 6 days without tweets. Much triggered by what he sees on television. There are no estimates how much time is used by 60 million followers reading 40,000 tweets. kaggle.com/doughersak/don…
@realDonaldTrump August 28, 2018: The marathon man. Trump goes the distance on Twitter. politico.com/magazine/story…
@realDonaldTrump Tweets are now a way to shift policy or the narrative with just a few key strokes. vox.com/2018/7/26/1761…
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There is a significant lack of understanding in the media about what 'security contractors" do in Afghanistan. Between targeting support and training much of is clearly defined, quite dull and rigidly overseen due to previous problems. usnews.com/news/national-…
However attention must be paid when these skill transfers are provided to dictatorships or communist regimes under the guise of anti terrorism. We have already seen multiple examples of Saudi Arabia, China and other nations abuse technology and skill sets. defenseone.com/ideas/2019/04/…
We don't even know the depth of evil that secondary usage of seemingly mundane social media and big data collected in "free countries" have been used by American and foriegn "security contractors" working in nations that have no legal restrictions. epic.org/privacy/facebo…
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#Haftar has history. "In 1987, Haftar led a Libyan invasion force into neighboring Chad and was captured and imprisoned by Chadian forces. Gaddafi did not negotiate for Haftar's release." He was defeated by the tiny mobile forces of "GUNT" and captured. nytimes.com/1987/04/13/wor…
1987 The Toyota War: Ouadi Doum was Libya's "Death Star", defended by 5,000 Libyan troops. 1,269 Libyans died, 438 Libyans captured vs 29 Chadian soldiers killed and 58 wounded. "Prisoners included the regional commander, Col. Khalifa Hastar" (Haftar) latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
January 1987: "(Haftar) made disastrous mistakes, such as dispatching Libyan columns to recapture the city of Fada, only for these columns to be mauled, and requiring a secondary force to rescue them, which was also crushed." washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Docume…
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Oliver North, the most famous American to successfully sell weapons to the Iranians, suddenly figured out what the NRA really does with that all that donation money. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Olly is loved and hated by many but even he couldn't clean up the NRA. everytownresearch.org/nra-in-crisis/
I shouldn't belabor this (but I will anyways) Just like his about face supporting Haftar in Libya, Trump again pops up supporting a allegedly corrupt, ineffective organization. Why? The NRA is outspent and outgunned. nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/…
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