US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Contrary to what people (perticularly anti-US people) like to pretend, the Vietcong never defeated the US. There was no great final battle where the noble Cong blew up the Yanks until they surrendered or anything.
True, but the optics from the fall of Saigon were pretty bad.
uuuuuuh.... Drumf.....won?
Was there ever a doubt? Gotta give him credit, he played this one well.
 
Did someone post that teacher's PhD dissertation or whatever? It was literally some bullshit like "Intersectional Queer & Non-Binary Feminism in Rural America" aka academia dying right in front of us.
Meanwhile I have a Bachelor’s in Biology and a Masters in Education and I can’t get a teaching job in my area for shit…
 
In other news theres a Elephant doing gods work rampaging through India for 10 straight days. I think its killed like 20 something Indians so far. Valid crash out honestly, Id do the same if I was stuck in India surrounded by pajeets.
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https://nypost.com/2026/01/19/world...ly-two-dozen-in-10-day-rampage-through-india/
Anyone notice in India whenever a wild animal pops up there is a googolplex of Jeets surrounding it making it feel stressed.


Yes my first instinct seeing a 500 pound striped jungle cat or 5 tons of trunked fury is to approach it…
 
It’s funny to see the shoe on the other foot lol. This sounds so paranoid and a great way to start beating up someone because they decided to wear more protective gear. I guess if you need a way to convince protesters to wear less protective gear, this is the way.
 
We lost so much in Vietnam. Battles were just chasing ghosts and recaptured territory. Mcnamara thought we could quantify success like you would at a GM plant with statistics and numbers, so there were efforts to count and cook books to make it look like we were winning. It was similar to the Taliban where the soldiers and sympathizers could just melt away into the population. We tried to pacify the population with good will efforts building schools and medical care which the population didn't care about.

The only way we had a chance at winning the war was to treat civilians like combatants which we couldn't be because 'rules'.
This isn't really accurate, the Viet Cong were effectively pacified by the end of the war through a combination of getting their back broken in the Tet Offensive and the hearts and minds programs that get scorned actually working, the problem was that the US was never allowed to go directly after the North Vietnamese Army itself for geopolitical reasons. The way to win the war was to either to invade Cambodia and North Vietnam and defeat the NVA in the field instead of just driving them back across the border, or to commit to parking American troops in the South long-term as in Korea or Germany until they could get their shit together (which they were slowly doing), but political realities made either solution a no-go. Indiscriminate slaughter of Vietnamese wasn't really the way to 'victory'.
 
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