But would the current administration be the current administration without wealth hoarding psychopaths?

How is sticking a sticker on your car dragging other people into something?

You’re going to need a team of people, fly them in and out and make sure they get back home alive or it might hurt the president’s polls. It might be cheaper but it’s much riskier. Nobody in the US cares about those 52 other people so that doesn’t really matter to them.

I’m surprised they didn’t use drones.

It is mentioned in the text, but I don’t see anything redacted in the screenshots either.

Edit: It could be in the very first message, it’s not clear if there is text between the first and second screenshot.

A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe’s chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was “completely appropriate” to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.

Imagine if those people looked up to us, we’d have to really question our values.

Now you’re just trolling, I’ve already given you evidence about how the Chinese suppression apparatus works. People are being abducted for just being Muslim.

If they are not suppressing free speech, you show me some Chinese pro-palestine protests. Or go to China and see how long you last.

Yeah, I don’t understand who’s still in doubt about Russia’s true motives

China’s suppression certainly includes black bagging people, no idea where you got that from. Are you paying attention to China?

Anything else than democracy is shittier

You’re just plain wrong about that. The Chinese government hates any kind of social unrest and do not tolerate anything close to the protests happening in the US. The pro-palestine movement in China is suppressed harder in China than in the US.

If you were saying anything good about China I might agree with you, but you are not saying anything good about China. What you are complaining about in the US is a lot worse in China.

I love China, say anything that’s positive about China and I’ll agree with you.

She made a few public appearances, that means she’s on indefinite house arrest or something similar. Could be worse of course, this is indeed not the best example.

Some better examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_and_Michael_Kovrig

Never heard of the Xinjiang concentration camps? In China it’s also mostly brown people who criticize the government who are disappeared, the billionaires are the exceptions that make the news.

The USA might be getting worse, but it’s still a far cry from China.

In the US making people disappear without due process is news, in China it’s a daily occurrence.

What I mean is the pivot to the east was pretty clear with Obama. With Trump? I think he sees China and Russia more as a role model than an opponent, but who knows what’s going on in his mind.

Maybe you weren’t paying attention when Obama was president? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration

The US has a trade deficit because everyone wants dollars, even though the US keeps on printing them. You basically get free stuff and complain about it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The last one is only true because before capitalism we didn’t produce enough food.

It’s not that hard. They don’t need aid to continue to fight, but they do need aid to be able to win.

You guys shouldn’t complain, you still have saldering (net metering) ánd get money for the electricity you have left which is still a huge subsidy.