Not really that impressive, that's Testing Quick Attacks 101

QA? Or testers?

the worship of death? try all the videos of 'lethal kinetic strikes' on speedboats

somehow I dont think regime change is gonna happen before the midterms or even before 2028

> I dont think regime change is gonna happen before the midterms

I agree. But to be fair, I would have said the same thing about Venezuela a year ago. Maybe the term should be a regime slip.

We didn’t change the regime in Venezuela though right? Just decapitated it?

No one’s thinking America cant succeed at the killing partz. It’s what comes after that people are worried about.

> We didn’t change the regime in Venezuela though right?

Practically speaking, we changed it. The foreign and energy policies we care about changed. The notion that you need to wholesale clean shop to qualify as regime change is misguided and counterproductive [1].

(On the other end of the spectrum, the fact that we kept the Japanese Emperor on his throne doesn't mean we didn't change the Japanese regime.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Ba%27athification

I don't know if the same theory works in Iran though right, Iran is amidst economic collapse. It seems like the situation in Venezula with Maduro was tenable so when we decapitated the leader and got what we wanted it was ok that maybe most things didn't change. Is there a similar theory for Iran that's not soaked in hubris?

> Is there a similar theory for Iran that's not soaked in hubris?

Lots of factions in Iran, including within the IRGC. Khamenei's bunker gets hit, oh no, new dude knives the competition and then makes a call to the White House.

The U.S. is amidst economic collapse... hubris ...

Delusional. With your line of thought Al-Qaeda got regime change in the US.

I think he meant another regime not the Iranians.

Epstein files and plummeting poll numbers are more likely reasons

My guess is Hegseth is cumming in his pants at the idea of starting the 10th Crusade.

Then Hegseth and Caine must be prepared to face the next Taiwan strait crisis with depleted munitions.

yeh, my natural pond in Michigan has lost about 15 feet, the snow we're getting now won't be enough to regain it

your question implies that the person in charge of tariffs has any idea of the effect of using them...

What if the idea was to add a tax without calling it a tax so they would have more revenue to apply their plan?

Or to tax the poor.

I've heard this defence plenty from other Americans. & the campaign pushed "built in America" as a goal, so it seems likely the person in charge had this idea

Bob Woodward's book Fear: Trump in the White House made it pretty clear that Trump (in his first term) either did not understand how trade works between countries or did not care. At the time he was singularly focused on "trade deficits," especially the one between the US and South Korea, because on paper it seemed like the US was "losing" or "being taken advantage of" by South Korea. That was all he cared about, reducing that trade deficit so the US came out on top.

It's rebounding on them, support for ICE is now negative They're going after the weak and easy targets and dont care about citizenship as Miller has set them daily targets

that sucks, hope you get to work with a good tester/QA person at some point so you get to see what they can do