at 1:35:20 Mr. Gallagher says that the Department opposed a legislative effort to give the DoD the ability to reroute expiring funds. Does anyone know what that draft legislation was about?
(1) Mike Rogers would sound far more credible if he knew how to pronounce world leaders' names (in the ballpark of) correctly. Xi is not Zee. It's not a question of respect to the adversary, but a question of whether Rogers knows who the heck he's even talking about. It's about not sounding ignorant on the subject matter. (2) To Ratner at 45:55 about Taiwan, I believe the #1 problem for the Taiwanese is in getting their own people to take seriously the idea of defending themselves. The Taiwanese objective on defense has been to hold out for enough DAYS for the US (and maybe Japan) to get there in time to save them. The MAGA and Progressives in our congress have shown them with Ukraine that help may not be coming for Taiwan when the time comes. The Taiwanese Kuomintang (KMT) party (Ironically) and the CCP have collectively pushed the narrative that the US isn't going to help, so surrender now and there is no point in training for war. Further, their conscript training is far below subpar and their recruitment is worse than our own. Lastly, socially, military service and a career service in Taiwan is derided and looked down upon. The Taiwanese don't say, "Thank you for your service" to their soldiers. They, like the South Koreans and Japanese and also like our former President Trump think that people who join the military are suckers and the dregs of their society. (3) From Smith on India at 46:43 India and Modi and the India/Pakistan/Kashmir issue should be treated almost as 3 different variables to consider and not a single "India" variable. India, by itself, is immune to trade agreements and trade sanctions. Depending on what side of the bed Modi wakes up on, his decisions are rational only in a regional and an anti-US context, but almost never in any global sense. They are not exactly Swiss or Sweden in their neutrality, but also just simply don't give a damn much beyond their immediate borders in the same way that the US is not. Like the US, India has a geographic moat around its country, though mostly of rough terrain rather than two oceans. The only thing India gives us is the Malacca Straights and access for the US to start sinking cargo ships. (4) Stop Worrying about BRICS! No joke! It was literally an idea thought up as a foreign investment strategy by the former CEO of the notorious Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neil. That's all it was: An economic, investment hedge against G7 countries. The BRICS countries themselves hate or at least distrust each other politically.
Btw, on Wilson, it's very concerning about WHERE he is getting his info from about Panama and who is providing that info and where his money comes from. Everyone is dismissing him as an idiot, but as soon as I heard his questions, my first thought was to investigate him as a dumb-ass that was told to ask those questions by his aid and to be asking where the question came from. btw, was he merely drunk, or also high? I'm not questioning his question, or right to ask, but I am questioning his ability to have originated the question: WHO came up with that question? Why?
On Courtney at 59:41 it wasn't Admiral Harris. It was Stalin who said that "quantity is a quality all its own" which we have seen in the Russo-Ukraine war. That is so common and so easy a quote to attribute that I'm concerned about Courtney's aids and speech writers. The submarine purchases are about procurement and a member of Congress asking about it shows that he either doesn't know it or was confident that the witnesses couldn't speak on it.
Yeah, sorry buddy: You can't use solving the border crises as an issue, anymore. You had a solution negotiated by arguably the second-most conservative member of the Republican Party and you publically, visibly un-ironically dumped it so that Trump would have something to run on. Now, every time the border gets brought up, Republicans are derided and scoffed at and it has become almost as radioactive for Republicans as Abortion. The Border is dead to you as an issue. Every time you bring it up, you get clobbered in the polls.
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at 1:35:20 Mr. Gallagher says that the Department opposed a legislative effort to give the DoD the ability to reroute expiring funds. Does anyone know what that draft legislation was about?
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(1) Mike Rogers would sound far more credible if he knew how to pronounce world leaders' names (in the ballpark of) correctly. Xi is not Zee. It's not a question of respect to the adversary, but a question of whether Rogers knows who the heck he's even talking about. It's about not sounding ignorant on the subject matter.
(2) To Ratner at 45:55 about Taiwan, I believe the #1 problem for the Taiwanese is in getting their own people to take seriously the idea of defending themselves. The Taiwanese objective on defense has been to hold out for enough DAYS for the US (and maybe Japan) to get there in time to save them. The MAGA and Progressives in our congress have shown them with Ukraine that help may not be coming for Taiwan when the time comes. The Taiwanese Kuomintang (KMT) party (Ironically) and the CCP have collectively pushed the narrative that the US isn't going to help, so surrender now and there is no point in training for war. Further, their conscript training is far below subpar and their recruitment is worse than our own. Lastly, socially, military service and a career service in Taiwan is derided and looked down upon. The Taiwanese don't say, "Thank you for your service" to their soldiers. They, like the South Koreans and Japanese and also like our former President Trump think that people who join the military are suckers and the dregs of their society.
(3) From Smith on India at 46:43 India and Modi and the India/Pakistan/Kashmir issue should be treated almost as 3 different variables to consider and not a single "India" variable. India, by itself, is immune to trade agreements and trade sanctions. Depending on what side of the bed Modi wakes up on, his decisions are rational only in a regional and an anti-US context, but almost never in any global sense. They are not exactly Swiss or Sweden in their neutrality, but also just simply don't give a damn much beyond their immediate borders in the same way that the US is not. Like the US, India has a geographic moat around its country, though mostly of rough terrain rather than two oceans. The only thing India gives us is the Malacca Straights and access for the US to start sinking cargo ships.
(4) Stop Worrying about BRICS! No joke! It was literally an idea thought up as a foreign investment strategy by the former CEO of the notorious Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neil. That's all it was: An economic, investment hedge against G7 countries. The BRICS countries themselves hate or at least distrust each other politically.
Btw, on Wilson, it's very concerning about WHERE he is getting his info from about Panama and who is providing that info and where his money comes from. Everyone is dismissing him as an idiot, but as soon as I heard his questions, my first thought was to investigate him as a dumb-ass that was told to ask those questions by his aid and to be asking where the question came from. btw, was he merely drunk, or also high? I'm not questioning his question, or right to ask, but I am questioning his ability to have originated the question: WHO came up with that question? Why?
On Courtney at 59:41 it wasn't Admiral Harris. It was Stalin who said that "quantity is a quality all its own" which we have seen in the Russo-Ukraine war. That is so common and so easy a quote to attribute that I'm concerned about Courtney's aids and speech writers. The submarine purchases are about procurement and a member of Congress asking about it shows that he either doesn't know it or was confident that the witnesses couldn't speak on it.
Disagree minimal funding for borders. Correct crisis here at home first.
Yeah, sorry buddy: You can't use solving the border crises as an issue, anymore. You had a solution negotiated by arguably the second-most conservative member of the Republican Party and you publically, visibly un-ironically dumped it so that Trump would have something to run on. Now, every time the border gets brought up, Republicans are derided and scoffed at and it has become almost as radioactive for Republicans as Abortion. The Border is dead to you as an issue. Every time you bring it up, you get clobbered in the polls.