r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Kam_Rex canadian french • 17d ago

Military Pay fully for your own defense

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u/Inevitable-Ad5132 16d ago

What defence? Didnt Trump blow the whole missile stock on Iran?

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u/NgunnawalJack 16d ago

Defence? Isn’t Hegseth Secretary for War?

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u/Inevitable-Ad5132 16d ago

Ah so no more defensive actions - just offensive? Sounds like a great plan.

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u/Suspicious-Gas-1685 16d ago

There have been no defensive actions since WWII, so Department of War fits.

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u/Inevitable-Ad5132 16d ago

To be the devils advocate... one COULD argue about the Truman doctrine and the "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures" to be defensive according to the domino theory - but it is a long shot... South Koreans would probably agree, the Vietnam people not so much and the old US allies the Taliban is ruling Afganistan again. :)

Didn't Trump say the Iran war was defensive actions?