I don’t know about the numbers you present, but absolutely agree that some industries are just worth supporting, from a government perspective. Cannot be reliant on a geopolitical enemy for goods that allow your country to continue to function.
I think Trump losing us allies is a travesty, but there’s no guarantee during a global conflict you can get items from said allies.
A bullshit argument “Hen Mazzig” has. That land is owned by the Palestinians. They don’t want to leave, it is Israel forcibly removing people from their land, and then whining that the Palestinian’s friends won’t let them crash on the couch. They want to live in the land that they either bought or inherited from their family.
Who is your “they” in this scenario? Because R’s sure don’t fit into that “they”.
I’m just glad my kids will never have to talk to Gaetz, sounds horrifying.
I feel like this is giving the GOP too much credit. The “old Republican party” never wanted trans in the military, and given how small the percentage of trans people in the US, I don’t know that it will majorly impact readiness. But even if it would have, would have been an acceptable sacrifice to any time period of republicans. To pretend like the Rs of the past wouldn’t have celebrated this at any time is looking back at the past with opaque rose glasses. It is hallucinating a time that never was.