Oh wait, looks like it ended in 23? I don’t think I’ve looked since 2018

Wait is GWTB still ongoing?! I need to read it all again in entirety

I really hope that GOs don’t take the oath lightly. When I taught that lesson to my cadets it was a serious conversation and usually involved stories about commanders I knew who got fired or court-martialed for everything including extra-marital affairs, to belittling subordinates, to fabricating illegal orders (and then breaking international law). I hope it doesn’t come to it, but I imagine that a military court would be less partisan than our current courts have been.

I’m speaking from firsthand experience, my guy. You might want to check your bias too

That is neither a regulation nor a guidance. It only summarizes entrance requirements for training specifically and mentions nothing of graduation.

Admission is highly competitive and includes academic performance, leadership potential, physical fitness and character evaluations.

Even here it mentions core requirements for the entirety of training. Training has its own hurdles. A lot of people wash out because they either can’t maintain academics, fitness, or it’s not a good match for them personally. Trainees can also be removed at any time. I’ve had to do it myself on numerous occasions. Not everyone is cut out for or willing to put in the effort for officership. Check out some DoD, TRADOC, and AFMAN documents for more detail.

The regulations and guidance are publicly available if you would like to educate yourself

If you water a dying plant, it will drink. It’s almost like people without enough money need it for something

Nah man not sticking around to be abused like that, buhbye

Just accepting you can’t reason with ideologues 👍

I see this is going nowhere. Good luck out there

You are portraying Russia, a global superpower, as the unilateral victim. I am saying there is more nuance, especially concerning superpowers. I don’t support usurpation or invasion by anyone. You can’t suppose that ideologically and economically opposed nations won’t both editorialize (which seems here to be your concern, editorializing). Yet here we are.

You’re fixating on a symptom, not a cause. What you’re really concerned about is the parasitic nature of predatory marketing. That’s where all the garbage comes from. If you changed the USPS the way you say, all that trash would migrate to other delivery services. Attack the root cause: predatory marketing.

Edit: typos

It’s not a business. It’s a service.

Touché

I’m honestly surprised they’re still up

I’m not going to get into a citation contest with you, that would be a train to nowhere. My final point still stands.

Right, because the US told Yanukovych to brutalize his people, and also told the people to revolt and the supreme court to remove him from office, so he could flee to Russia. Not saying the West didn’t see this as an opportunity to strengthen economic ties, but it was not a bear and stick moment. Why do you insist that only the West is at fault? Culpability is shared

You’re speaking as if the US started it. They did not. Russia literally invaded Ukraine in the false pretense that they are under the control of a Nazi regime. There is no Nazi regime, barely even a functioning contingent, and certainly nothing out of proportion with the rest of the world’s far right representation. If anything, this “proxy war” serves two purposes: 1. To field test new technology and 2. To undercut Russian propaganda. It’s apparent to anyone paying attention that Russia is the aggressor, they’ve vastly oversold their own capability, and their propaganda machine is flailing.

I’m not saying there are no issues within the US that urgently need resolved, but let’s be honest with ourselves – authoritarianism is authoritarianism no matter their lat/long or cultural/economic history, at home and abroad.

Edit: got caught up in my own argument and forgot to mention the obvious third reason: to help the sovereign nation of Ukraine defend itself from invasion.

“non-empire”

Crimea and Ukraine might contest that

The dissent doesn’t “reveal concerns.” Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor have been very vocal about these issues for months, since last summer at least. I wish the news would stop with this limpdick rhetoric. We are in a fucking crisis, act like it