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29 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The absolute state of US military leadership
People in the comments were asking for verification, so the guys running this account posted more:
People who really believe that Pentagon rot did not exist before Biden became president are delusional. The generals sucked when and before Trump was president
Even worse military brass negligence is this:

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The Kabul bombing will be used to argue for a return to Afghanistan and against attempting a withdrawal from there or anywhere again. Disagreement will be framed as cowardice or an endorsement of those US troop deaths a la George W. Bush, "you're with us or against us" 1/
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There was no way to withdraw from Afghanistan that would have avoided the government's eventual collapse. After 20 years, more than $2T and 240,000 lives later, "Biden did the pullout wrong" misses that reality 1/
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Cuban-Americans demanding US foreign policy cater to their ethnic interests abroad illustrates Teddy Roosevelt's point about the dangers of "hyphenated Americanism" and the foreign entanglements that brings and this is from the GOP not the "identity politics" Democrats
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