France was (and I’m using past tense here because relations are strained due to…gestures generally) one of USA’s first allies. They provided political, navel, and monetary assistance during the revolutionary war. They were one of the first counties to acknowledge us as an independent country once the war was over.
The statue was commissioned as a gift to the US, not to the president. It doesn’t have any listening equipment and it sits as a tourist attraction, along with information about our long standing alliance.
Something that provides a whole lot of modern context is realizing that America was France’s early “Proxy war”. They wanted to give Britain a hard time, and so they gave colonials weapons to do it. Both of us won out from that exchange.
The key part here is that France didn’t keep an iron stranglehold of us. It was enough to win us our freedom that we would want to be their buddies without being forced. Fun story for anyone who insists the US wants to control the Ukrainian government.
The assholes are bombing the reactor containment over the incident site they created originally, I am more than happy to ship all the bombs to Kyiv so they can walk into Moscow and hang the war criminal in charge
Not a bad idea. Some 22s logging training hours flying from Poland to Finland to visit our friends while the Lancers practice nighttime maneuvers out of Elmendorf would have Ivan shitting his pants as things start exploding from all around, one thing we do very well is long range logistics.
Technically, if the Qatari plane gets instated as property of Air Force One operations then it belongs to the US and not the president. It would have been better to lean on the fact that Saudi Arabia is a direct sponsor to many groups and nations that the USA lists as adversaries.
Given that Trump is explicitly granting it to his Presidential library or whatever bullshit, and therefore restricting its use to his own purposes - no, it would effectively not belong to the US.
France was (and I’m using past tense here because relations are strained due to…gestures generally) one of USA’s first allies. They provided political, navel, and monetary assistance during the revolutionary war. They were one of the first counties to acknowledge us as an independent country once the war was over.
The statue was commissioned as a gift to the US, not to the president. It doesn’t have any listening equipment and it sits as a tourist attraction, along with information about our long standing alliance.
It wasn’t a fucking bribe!!!
Something that provides a whole lot of modern context is realizing that America was France’s early “Proxy war”. They wanted to give Britain a hard time, and so they gave colonials weapons to do it. Both of us won out from that exchange.
The key part here is that France didn’t keep an iron stranglehold of us. It was enough to win us our freedom that we would want to be their buddies without being forced. Fun story for anyone who insists the US wants to control the Ukrainian government.
Pfft, I don’t want to control the Ukrainian government.
I just want Russia to suffer for their crimes.
We are not the same.
The assholes are bombing the reactor containment over the incident site they created originally, I am more than happy to ship all the bombs to Kyiv so they can walk into Moscow and hang the war criminal in charge
Nah, takes too long.
We should spring for express shipping, sure we have some air-launched cruise missiles we can mount to b-1bs to handle the logistics.
What we really need to do is send some f22s on ‘training maneuvers’, and be extremely surprised when random sukhoi start falling out of the sky.
Not a bad idea. Some 22s logging training hours flying from Poland to Finland to visit our friends while the Lancers practice nighttime maneuvers out of Elmendorf would have Ivan shitting his pants as things start exploding from all around, one thing we do very well is long range logistics.
I think autocorrect got you, unless there was a secret bellybutton supply we don’t know about?
You ever been on a ship from that era? If you’re over 5’ tall you’ll spend a lot of time bent over staring at your navel
Belly button lint was used as a cartridge if paper wasn’t available.
Ohh! TIL, thank you.
… Hey, wait a minute!
Heh… navel.
Technically, if the Qatari plane gets instated as property of Air Force One operations then it belongs to the US and not the president. It would have been better to lean on the fact that Saudi Arabia is a direct sponsor to many groups and nations that the USA lists as adversaries.
Given that Trump is explicitly granting it to his Presidential library or whatever bullshit, and therefore restricting its use to his own purposes - no, it would effectively not belong to the US.