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Trump confirms Gov. Kristi Noem a potential VP selection

Updated February 21, 2024

Feb. 21—South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is on former President Donald Trump's shortlist as a potential running mate in the general election.

During a Tuesday night, Feb. 20 town hall on Fox News, Trump confirmed Noem is on the list of vice president candidates during an interview with host Laura Ingraham.

Ingraham listed high-profile Republicans Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Byron Donalds, Noem and former Democratic presidential primary candidate Tulsi Gabbard as the six names, and Trump confirmed they are possible running mates.

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https://news.yahoo.com/trump-confirms-gov-kristi-noem-153600297.html

Within minutes of the Tumpy Toon brigade going out on uuuuh...  limb......


You forgot to drop the mic.

WILL FEARLESS AND TIRELESS ROBOTS LEAD TO MORE TERRIFYING WARS?

Are they planning to make the entire military democrats?

WILL FEARLESS AND TIRELESS ROBOTS LEAD TO MORE TERRIFYING WARS?
ANTONIO SALINAS
APRIL 24, 2024

While developing the nuclear bomb, Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues expressed concerns about the possibility of igniting the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, with the emergence of autonomous weapons, we are faced with a similar risk of causing catastrophic damage by unleashing weapons that can kill without feeling fear. The consequences of unleashing such fearless weapons on the battlefield could be far more devastating than we can imagine. Indeed, humanity may come to miss the restraining and mitigating effects of fear, fatigue, and stress on the horrors of combat.

The proliferation of autonomous weapons will affect the future conduct of warfare. But we do not know how. After all, while new technologies are produced with instruction manuals, they do not come with strategy, doctrine, or tactics. Throughout military history, warfare has been wedded to humans who kill under the shadow of primordial danger and fear. People behave differently when they think they have a chance of dying. The combined psychological stressors of combat can aid in producing friction, which can impede the most intricately drawn “blue arrows” on any battle plan from coming to fruition. With this in mind, it is critical to consider how supplementing humans with autonomous weapons will impact the future face of battle.

Military technology may be on the cusp of a revolution that will forever change the face of warfare. Autonomous weapons, immune to the psychological factors of combat, are on the horizon and will usher in a new era of lethality. They will influence offensive and defensive operations and provide novel strategic options. The deployment of autonomous weapons has the potential to make warfare more efficient, but it also has the potential to make it more gruesome and terrible.

https://warontherocks.com/2024/04/will-fearless-and-tireless-robots-lead-to-more-terrifying-wars/

Coddling Iran Brings War to the Middle East
Obama's deference to the Mullahs finds us fighting proxy wars against them.
by FRANCIS P. SEMPA
April 28, 2024, 10:36 PM
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It cannot be stated too frequently that during Donald Trump’s presidency the Middle East was at relative peace and the Abraham Accords charted a new course for U.S. foreign policy there. This accord removed the irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict from center stage and replaced it with a realism that hadn’t been seen since the Nixon administration. In Trump, America had a president who didn’t care what Thomas Friedman wrote about the region in the New York Times, and who was determined to break through the bureaucratic inertia of the State Department (like Nixon and Kissinger did) to make deals that would benefit U.S. interests.

Meanwhile, Thomas Friedman, who people in the Biden administration undoubtedly read, keeps calling for regime change in Israel.

Trump’s approach, as Edward Luttwak points out in an insightful essay in Unherd, broke with the “delusional” policies of the Obama administration, which unfortunately have reappeared under Biden. As a result, Iran has been emboldened, launching proxy wars against Israel, supplying the Houthis with weapons to cause havoc in and around the Red Sea, and most recently attacking Israel directly with ballistic missiles and drones. Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian forces within the United States hold public anti-Israeli/anti-American demonstrations on college campuses and elsewhere. The world is reaping what Obama sowed. (READ MORE from Francis P. Sempa: What Will Happen to Russia After Putin?)

Luttwak notes that Obama’s Iran policy “has achieved the exact opposite of what he had wanted.” The U.S. and Iran, instead of reconciling, are fighting a proxy war in the Middle East. The Obama apology tour of the region in 2009, his nuclear deals with Iran, and the removal of sanctions against the regime have reaped a foul and dangerous harvest. Obama’s policies, Luttwak explains, gave Iran’s leaders “the time and the oil revenues to recruit Shi’a militias from Lebanon to Yemen now holding the Middle East to ransom.” Luttwak writes that it was delusional of Obama to believe that he could persuade the Mullahs to abandon their “‘death to America’ hostility.” And while Luttwak gives Obama credit for refraining from following the advice of some neoconservatives to attack Iran militarily (Trump, too, wisely rejected similar advice), the overall approach to the region during his eight years was a combination of Wilsonian imprudence regarding the so-called Arab Spring, hostility to Israel, and deference to the region’s Islamic regimes.

https://spectator.org/coddling-iran-brings-war-to-the-middle-east/