Someone during the 2020 primaries said something to the effect of "Bernie is the only one who can draw down the empire gracefully" and I think that was spot on. Trump is blowing it up trying to do too much at once without a coherent plan, Biden was keeping things as they were and letting it slowly die (hillary and kamala likely would have done the same).

With really good Iranian food too, I'd do it

Destroy an aircraft carrier

Redeploy an aircraft carrier

...and on second thought

Destroy an aircraft carrier

GI, it is a good idea to leave a sinking ship

"Runaway carrier group turns into mercenary unit" used to be my favorite cyberpunk scenario for when the US collapses, but if this war has shown us anything, it's what a logistical nightmare it is to actually deploy a carrier for extended amounts of time.

Doesn't this historically lead to mutinies?

US soldiers are way to cucked for that, IMO.

When Musk was doing doge, he had to be informed that the federal money was spontaneously created by congressional appropriation and didn't depend on tax revenue. These people don't all seem to understand that if they want more graft they can just print it, and leave the pay of the violence monopoly untouched.

Congress won't let them print the money for this

In an absolute sense, yes the federal government pays for itself. However, said dollars still get tallied, divided up into the relevant sub-budgets, and the bureaucracy of additional allocations have to be gone through in order to add in more funds. So if this story is correct, it means Trump is trying to avoid the usual budget allocation/funding process, either as a hope he can speed run a “victory” over Iran, is trying to avoid congressional scrutiny into this war, or a combination of both.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA