Military Parade

[naynay]

Kim Jong Un style, with some gold Trump flair.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-marching-orders-to-the-pentagon-plan-a-grand-military-parade/2018/02/06/9e19ca88-0b55-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.e8efd3445ae4

President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed forces.

Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions — marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.

Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.

“The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” said a military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the planning discussions are supposed to remain confidential. “This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”

Anyone ever driven on DC streets?

[dcs13]

Trolling 101. You democrats will be on record as hating Memorial Day, July 4th and Veterans Day before he's done.. Ya'll already shut the government down to keep the borders open.. Anti americans I say...

[Strychnine]

It's been how long since anyone put real pressure on NK to stop being assholes and stopped placating them?


This headline came out today in Japan:

In announcement to all Koreans, Pyongyang calls for unification and end to U.S. military exercises

North Korea has issued an appeal to “all Koreans at home and abroad,” urging them to “turn out as one” to make a “breakthrough” for “independent reunification” and urging the South to halt joint military exercises with the U.S. “forever,” state-run media said Thursday.

The announcement, which came after a joint meeting of the government and political parties, said all Koreans should “promote contact, travel, cooperation and exchange between the north and the south on a wide scale” to create a climate for “reconciliation and reunification.”

The appeal, which was aimed at supporting remarks on reunification in leader Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s address, said this year was particularly meaningful for both Koreas as it is the 70th anniversary of the North’s founding and will see the South host the Pyeongchang Olympics from Feb. 9 to 25.

But the announcement — which comes amid easing tensions after the two Koreas agreed to cooperate closely on the upcoming Winter Olympics in the South — also denounced Seoul’s joint military drills with the U.S.

“The south Korean authorities should stop the war games with the U.S. forever and refrain from introducing the U.S. nuclear strategic assets and aggression forces to south Korea,” the official Korean Central News Agency said, quoting the announcement.

Koreans should “smash all sophisms and attempts to slander the nuclear treasured sword of the nation … and brand it as a hurdle in the way for the improvement of the north-south relations,” it added.

Pyongyang’s unusually strong appeal to Seoul for it to halt joint military drills with Washington — exercises that the North views as a rehearsal for invasion — could leave the administration of liberal South Korean President Moon Jae-in in a bind.

Moon has walked a fine line by backing both the U.S. policy of heaping “maximum pressure” on North Korea while at the same time seeking engagement with it in hopes of building on breakthroughs such as the recent deal to cooperate on the Olympics.

On Wednesday, a high-ranking South Korean diplomatic official said that now is the “best time” for North Korea to hold a dialogue with the United States on its nuclear and missile programs, according to the South’s Yonhap news agency.

The Moon administration said it would not oppose the bilateral talks, the official added.

“Now is the best time, as the U.S. opens its door for talks,” the unidentified official was quoted as saying. “The U.S. could close the door shut anytime. It is important for the North to stop provocations and come out for talks.”

Sue Mi Terry, senior fellow for Korea at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, told a news briefing that Seoul could push for an indefinite postponement of its joint military exercises with the U.S. in exchange for North Korea taking steps to denuclearize.

The two allies had earlier agreed to suspend the annual drills for the duration of the Pyeongchang Games. Terry said Moon could seek to extend that suspension and bring the U.S. and North Korea together for negotiations on denuclearization.

South Korea wants “to make sure that this opening with North Korea over the Olympics leads to something and leads to perhaps U.S.-North Korea dialogue,” she said, according to a transcript of her remarks.

“So they’re going to try very hard,” she said. “And if they cannot give concessions on the sanctions front, they have to give something, because North Korea will demand it. So I’m a little bit concerned that the Moon government might actually push for the postponement of joint military exercises.”

Despite the apparent momentum for talks, experts have cast doubt that Pyongyang would seriously entertain discussions about denuclearization. They say it views its nuclear weapons as a lifeline and that without them, the Kim regime believes it would suffer the same fate as Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, who gave up a nascent nuclear weapons program for security assurances. Gadhafi was later killed in a U.S.-backed rebellion.

North Korea has continued to stoke global condemnation after conducting a spate of missile tests and its sixth nuclear blast last year. Those tests have prompted some of the most stringent United Nations and unilateral sanctions measure against the country to date.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula had soared to unprecedented heights in the wake of Pyongyang’s November claim that its nuclear program was “complete” after the successful launch of a long-range missile that experts believe is capable of striking the continental United States, though they have cooled with the recent Olympic rapprochement.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/25/asia-pacific/announcement-koreans-pyongyang-calls-unification-end-u-s-military-exercises/

[SS Junk]

Because there's no gay pride or pink hats or rainbows or strap ons with this parade libtard fucktards are triggered and scared, as evidenced by a fakenews fucktard.

Anyone ever driven on DC streets?

Certainly not you.

[naynay]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trumps-hair-illusion-came-undone-and-we-all-missed-it.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&__twitter_impression=true

[naynay]

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/military-refuses-to-participate-in-trumps-parade-citing-bone-spurs

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Pentagon has turned down Donald J. Trump’s request for a grand military parade in Washington, D.C., citing a sudden outbreak of bone spurs that would prevent men and women in uniform from participating.
Harland Dorrinson, a Pentagon spokesman, said that, within an hour of Trump’s request, more than a hundred thousand military personnel complained that they were suffering from acute cases of bone spurs that would make marching in such a parade a painful ordeal.
“In the history of the U.S. military, we have never experienced a bone-spur epidemic of this magnitude,” the spokesman said. “Regrettably, however, we have no choice but to issue thousands of deferments.”
A statement from the bone-spur sufferers said that they would continue to valiantly serve their country around the world in a non-marching capacity, and offered an alternative to their participation in Trump’s proposed pageant.
“President Trump is welcome to march in the parade all by himself if he would finally like to enlist,” the statement read.

[Craizie]

This is bottom tier trolling.

[Shaggin Wagon]

Id like to see this parade happen.

[juiceweezl]

Trump living rent free in naynus head.

[naynay]

umm, no.

Trump is stink bait that i use to bring out the bottom feeders.

[Craizie]

You sure? Your trolling has been sub-par by all standards... and it appears that he is all that is on your mind.

[naynay]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/navy-seal-bin-laden-shooter-trump-military-parade/index.html

The former Navy SEAL who claims he fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden is blasting President Donald Trump's desire for a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.

"A military parade is third world b-------. We prepare. We deter. We fight. Stop this conversation," Robert O'Neill tweeted Thursday.
O'Neill was part of the military operation ordered by President Barack Obama that killed the al Qaeda leader in 2011. He also has been a guest host on a favorite morning show of Trump's, "Fox & Friends," and dined with the President at the White House last year.

[SS Junk]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/polit...ade/index.html

Perhaps a fakenews fucktard can explain the logic on this? According to libtard logic, stating anything "third world..." is racist, yet liberal fakenews fucktard websites are all about plastering this everywhere just because a veteran disagrees with Trump. In your best liberal fakenews fucktard logic, explain why this benefits a liberal fakenews fucktard cause?

[Chili]

I think the 'third world' rational for being against it is pretty silly, but am also against a random military parade in DC with tanks and shit..

It's not about it being something that third world countries do, IMO, rather it's akin to a dick measuring contest.. Boasting or bravado meant to pump people up and get them behind a country that they might have some issues with. It's an attempt at manipulation and I hate that. That's not to say I am against military parades, or military vehicles and units participating in parades, but the parade should have an actual purpose aside from being simply a show of force.

Veterans day, Memorial day, 4th of July.. Just won a war... Yeah, those make sense, but even then, I'm not for including a bunch of tanks and other large weaponry and vehicles (other than what's needed to transport people maybe). Celebrate the people, not the tools.

On top of all of that, I think it's a terrible decision from a security standpoint. It would cost taxpayers a ludicrous amount of money to properly protect such a parade, which isn't worth it IMO. Otherwise just a couple of small devices could too easily cause significant damage. If you think the World Trade Center or the Boston Marathon were attractive targets for them, just think how much they would love to hit a large group of US military AND civilians in DC?

[Sgt Beavis]

There is only one reason I can think of to do this parade and that's to try and scare the shit out of lil Kim in North Korea. Other than that, it's bullshit.

Here's the thing I don't like. As a soldier, you've got a lot of shit to do during your day. Besides doing your actual job, you've got PT, shining your boots and uniform maintenance, training, etc., etc., etc. I know there are soldiers that would disagree but I think many look at this as bullshit and just one more thing to do for the politicians.

You know what soldiers want? They want good equipment, good medical care for themselves and their families, and a pay raise.