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Max Boot on the futility of engaging ISIS in Nigeria militarily: (Original Post) applegrove 19 hrs ago OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Takket 19 hrs ago #1
drumpf and musk giving up our soft power is gonig to let ISIS flourish Takket 19 hrs ago #2
on Christmas Day! Skittles 19 hrs ago #3
"at levels not seen for many years, and even centuries!" Norrrm 19 hrs ago #4
Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM usonian 19 hrs ago #5
Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov Ping Tung 7 hrs ago #6

Response to applegrove (Original post)

Takket

(23,438 posts)
2. drumpf and musk giving up our soft power is gonig to let ISIS flourish
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 08:41 PM
19 hrs ago

and a few missile strikes won't do shit to them.

Norrrm

(3,892 posts)
4. "at levels not seen for many years, and even centuries!"
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 09:14 PM
19 hrs ago

at levels not seen for many years, and even centuries!...
Trump offered visas and asylum for white South Africans with supposed genocide.
Perhaps the Nigerians are not white Christians.

usonian

(23,340 posts)
5. Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM
Thu Dec 25, 2025, 09:32 PM
19 hrs ago
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20729427

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-dont-want-to-be-the-policemen-of-the-world/


President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”

“We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

“We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.

Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.


Reason?

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