Let's talk about that Qatar training announcement

[Maxmars]

I worked with a former Iranian Fighter Pilot back in the 1990's here in the USA. Nice really smart guy who was promoted into corporate HQ.  I never discussed stuff about his former country.

Let me guess... Texas... Lackland?

This is not the stuff of threats, sorry I digressed before...

[cherokeetroy]

All criticism of any sitting president is not only welcome here, it's required
if we are ever to strip away the, dare I say it...., political pornography always included
in "journalism" products now....
I note... with some irony, and some grief mixed in,

there are no sources of fact within the press/media... only 'report products' which we have been innocently consuming for many, many years...

If

1. I can now be guaranteed of never finding a true - formal - "trusted simply factual" means to simply "observe" the reality in front of me. 
(It won't happen.  Collectively, and effectively, the industry operated, and largely still does operate, as an information monopoly... the broad view back is unequivocal.)

2. I wish to understand the now increasingly impactful "use of other countries need money - we're taking it" ploy....
(Part of me always thought the tax payer should be the arbiter of where his INDIVIDUAL tax dollars go.... instant plebiscite - but the thought of all those politicians crying just breaks my heart.)

3. I can't know enough, nor trust what I'm being "SHOWN."

You know what?  Many hands make light work....  If there is fact at the bones of it... WE'RE HAPPY TO SLICE OF CHUNKS OF "MEDIA" MEAT... until the facts remain.... and you realize why it's "free news."

That's but ONE reason to participate in dialogue .... you may discover something new... relevant... and although sometimes unexpected, you discover that your beloved source is just as full of shit as those they so deeply focus on.

Politicians on the left and the right have perfected their cooperative ability of maintaining "good cop bad cop" dual roles. On one hand, inciting division between their constituents while on the other hand, protecting each other across the board from facing any real accountability.

Trump is not the outsider he portrays himself to be. He's an active jacket wearing, card carrying member of the club.

[Maxmars]

Like all these celebrities we dare to trust... he is a human.

While that could bring all the gifts, blessings, and benefits of sincere good will and the negation of "ambitions" (think context of Ghandi's perspective of them,)  it instead seems to guarantee self-aggrandizing dissimulation, media exploitation, and "gamesmanship" in the news products... go figure.

All the while, rather than acknowledge the problem, we are developing new ways to keep things exactly as they are.... no arguments, no changes, the parties have spoken.

My last political comment on this matter... please forgive the compulsion to expand.

[AdmireTheDistance]

I got downvoted to hell on other sites, but this is nothing new. Here's an article from 2022 talking about it.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_for...30963.html

[Maxmars]

I got downvoted to hell on other sites, but this is nothing new. Here's an article from 2022 talking about it.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_for...30963.html

Of course you did... activism is on the loose.

[Zaphod58]

I got downvoted to hell on other sites, but this is nothing new. Here's an article from 2022 talking about it.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_for...30963.html

Because that proves that the agreement was being worked on under the Biden administration, and then they can't blame Trump for being corrupt and using this as a quid pro quo.

[RazorV66]

Because that proves that the agreement was being worked on under the Biden administration, and then they can't blame Trump for being corrupt and using this as a quid pro quo.

Jesus.

These guys are still trying to bang a dead horse?

[Maxmars]

I don't think anyone should expect that nonsense to stop, at this point it has become a tradition.... spanning generations... that's someone at work...

[Zaphod58]

Jesus.

These guys are still trying to bang a dead horse?

It’s not as bad here, but other social media platforms, Jesus Christ.

[cherokeetroy]

To be fair, Biden faced scrutiny and criticism over similar concerns

Trump isn't being picked on or unfairly singled out

It's gotten to the point where RW extremists want to dismiss every single criticism of Trump as unwarranted liberal hysteria

Ridiculous 

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