• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    13 hours ago

    So this is really happening, huh? It’s almost surreal, as it’s pretty obviously going to turn into a disaster, but there’s no stopping it. A horrifying train crash in slow motion.

  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    17 hours ago

    “Weighs”. A curious term.

    The WSJ sanewashing this administration because the Pentagon follows the commander in chief and we know Trump neither weighs, ponders or considers shit.

    He makes up random bullshit on the fly and the Pentagon blindly obeys. If they are lucky, they get to react as to how to minimize the inevitable fallout of supremely stupid decisions in the hopes they can survive long enough to make it to to retirement.

    The smarter Pentagon officials are probably googling “US military pension lump sum payouts” along with “Renouncing US citizenship” and “Warm, cheap places to retire to.”

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      17 hours ago

      I just posted this because last week it was 2000. By these trends it will be 50000 next week and 250000 after easter…😑

    • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      16 hours ago

      There’s no lump sum option for a military pension, at least not in the US, and renouncing citizenship also forfeits any future pension or social security entitlements.

      Edit: VA and healthcare benefits too.

      • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        15 hours ago

        AFAIK, once you qualify for Social Security, you get it even if you stop being a citizen. I looked into it at some point as I plan to renounce once my parents pass (I already live overseas)

        • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          12 hours ago

          I’ve never heard of it. Doesn’t that require the pension to have a buy-out value? Military pension doesn’t have that.

          • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            8 hours ago

            If you have a pension worth $1 mil, that trickles in over time, you sell it for $600,000 lump sum and just get pension payments deposited into an account of their choosing. You got some immediate cash. They get more money over time.

  • crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    16 hours ago

    If this is the headline then you can be damn sure the Pentagon is already planning to put those boots on the ground, they just need a few friendly articles first

    • lennybird@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      14 hours ago

      It’s a trial balloon at best, or yes softening the inevitable.

      This also sounds exactly like how we ramped up troops in Vietnam.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      16 hours ago

      A friend works for the Department of Defense in Japan and told me a couple of weeks ago that a lot of military folks were already being shipped out.

  • LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    11 hours ago

    Do it. Doooooooo it. Let’s just throw those kids into the meat grinder, fire up the old conscription, and watch America implode