Amongst the fireworks of the second debate, lost amidst the talk of jail, taxes, and sniffles is a statement that I found utterly terrifying in relation to Russia and our foreign policy.
Now, with that being said, she talks tough against Russia. But our nuclear program has fallen way behind and they've gone wild with their nuclear program. Not good. Our government shouldn't have allowed that to happen. Russia is new in terms of nuclear. We are old. We're tired. We're exhausted in terms of nuclear. A very bad thing.
Nuclear weapons were the first place he went. Nuclear weapons. Of course, we all remember those rumors of Trump asking the generals, “Why can’t we just use them?” Snopes claims these are just rumors, poorly substantiated if at all, but it is a believable rumor.
One might dismiss this as merely another attempt to try and show how America is no great any more, so not great that Obama allowed Russia to make a new missile gap. Or maybe he just heard about the US Missile command using floppy disks. (I don’t think this is such a huge problem, though — why should we be in such a rush to throw out proven technology that works, particularly when age and obsolescence can actually provide security against hacking — but I digress.)
Then again, maybe his understanding of military matters really is that shallow. After all, his plan to re-take Mosul basically amounts to sending in John Rambo to kill the bad guys in their sleep.
Let me tell you something. You take a look at Mosul. The biggest problem I have with the stupidity of our foreign policy, we have Mosul. We have ... coming out of Washington and Iraq, we will be attacking Mosul in three or four weeks. All of these bad leaders from ISIS are leaving Mosul. Why can't they do it quietly? Why can't they do the attack, make it a sneak attack and after the attack is made, inform the American public that we've knocked out the leaders, we've had a tremendous success. People leave. Why do they have to say we're going to be attacking Mosul within the next four to six weeks which is what they're saying. How stupid is our country.
Gee, why didn’t anybody think of that before? Oh, that’s right, it’s because Obama wants America to fail. Thanks, Obama!
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