• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    18 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

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      16 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
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      17 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.