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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Pirates of the Caribbean!

Would you like to seize cartel assets as a privateer?

My bill would allow the president to issue you a letter of marque.

Time to take these pirates down.
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Pirates are fun! But they're not the goodies.

The only thing that can tackle a bad guy with a small boat is a good guy with a letter of marque. And bigger weapons. Bigger than a drugs cartel is likely to turn up with. Even if they see the news, and know he and his friends are coming.

Vigilantes of the Caribbean!!! What could go wrong????
 
The Great Zaganza said:
I suggest that our brave Caribbean Patriots disguise themselves as drug smugglers.
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Maybe they already tried that and Hegseth blasted them to Davy Jones's locker.

They can't use the old ruse of disguising themselves as a whaler either because they'd just get arrested by some woke whale-lover. Tch. You can't do anything these days.
 
Dread Pirate Roberts said:
They certainly came to blows in Korea, and they chose to join that fight.
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That was a defensive war. The United States escalated the war by getting directly involved. When the North Koreans started the war in 1950, China "only" provided weapons and training, like we so recently have done for Ukraine against Russia. Once it looked like North Korea was about to win the war, the United States became directly involved and pushed them back towards the Yalu, or whatever the name of that river is that separates Korea from China. A certain general had to be fired because he wanted to start WWIII by invading China-proper. Just before he was let go, we very clearly threatened China right on their back porch. I'm sorry, but that wasn't China's choice to join the fight, so much as it was the USA forcing their hand. China was definitely the reasonable one in Korea, as they pushed us back towards the 38th Parallel; the original positioning after the Americans left after the defeat of Japan in 1945. I'm not too clear about events between 1945 and 1950. I know we were there for a few years when two Koreas were formed. And we pulled out before the North invaded the South in 1950. But ultimately, China was never directly involved until we were. And even then, China didn't become directly involved until US forces pushed up closer to their border.

And besides the fact that, its really weird for an imperialist westerner from an aggressive nation (of perhaps not; I don't know if you are American or not), to sort of "defend" the aggressive nation of the United States that has been literally in practically every single country on the planet since 1945. Whereas China, in comparison, has been extremely passive on the world stage. At most, you can only point at a handful of situations, and even then, pretty much all of them were very minor incidents. With Korea perhaps being the hottest event, and even then, it was much more defensive in nature.
 
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