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 @LardSummerNo Labels from Maryland  commented…2yrs2Y

This is another visible indication our military strength is in terminal decline.

Americans by and large won't understand the significance until it's too late, a day I fear is going to be upon us much sooner than anyone could've guessed just a few decades ago.

I strongly suspect many veterans understand this intuitively, which is why they're telling their children to steer clear of the military.

 @SeahorseMartyDemocrat from New Mexico  commented…2yrs2Y

You severely underestimate our military and probably have never served.

You have no idea what we have developed.

 @LardSummerNo Labels from Maryland  commented…2yrs2Y

Tell me, how long before China's navy, which has far surpassed us numerically in the last few years, has an insurmountable advantage? Leveraging their massive civilian shipbuilding yards, They already have the ability to build new ships many times faster, each generation far better than the last.

We have few shipyards left, can't build new ones, and it's impossible to catch up at this point.

So please, in this simple example, by what miracle will we stop their meteoric rise to naval dominance? I'm all ears armchair warrior.

 @Diplom4cyBarryConstitutionfrom Maine  agreed…2yrs2Y

Tell me, how long before China's navy, which has far surpassed us numerically in the last few years, has an insurmountable advantage? Leveraging their massive civilian shipbuilding yards, They already have the ability to build new ships many times faster, each generation far better than the last.

We have few shipyards left, can't build new ones, and it's impossible to catch up at this point.

So please, in this simple example, by what miracle will we stop their meteoric rise to naval dominance? I'm all ears armchair warrior.

 @JumpyNomineeLibertarian from Pennsylvania  disagreed…2yrs2Y

Skipping over small details like our submarine fleet response capability etc... This is a fear and scare, sales pitch piece for more tax payer money to the military industrial complex . Which only considers it's own profit margin. Not the security of the United States.

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For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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