Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

Ok, cool cool. So you (general you, not OP) are down with inviting - checks notes - a totalitarian Monarchial government running with Sharia law, judicial corporal punishment (you know, floggings), modern day slavers, death penalty for homosexuals and apostates, terrorist financiers and currently providing shelter for Hamas leadership, corruption all up and down the government and military…

The first time one of these people ‘disrespects’ a US service woman, all hell better break loose. If not, thst disrespect will turn into something real ugly real quick. Better keep them confined to base for the duration so we don’t temp them with alcohol and unaccompanied females.

(Sorry, yes I am generalizing and yes I am aware that is ‘not all Qataris’ but let’s be real here, Democracies are supposed to support Democracies, not totalitarians, fascists, monarchs, or any other form of abusive government, which certainly applies to the government of Qatar).

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TraditionalLaw7763@reddit

I never thought of this… yikes. But then again I just learned about it and I really have not had time to process all of the emotions and possible horrific outcomes this insanity may cause.

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Wulfkat@reddit

Sharia law does not work with our laws.

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TraditionalLaw7763@reddit

Didn’t work with England’s either but they’ve made massive concessions to appease these folks.

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Dead_Inside50@reddit

Neither does capitalism, but here we are.

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RossCollinsRDT@reddit

you do realize the anti immigration people use this same logic.

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MacRockwell@reddit

It’s amazing how far people are letting this administration go, without admitting that they’re being bamboozled. Donny’s out front distracting everyone with his sales pitches and spiels. Meanwhile the back doors are open and we’re being robbed blind.

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Material_Let_9318@reddit

Not true. It’s training and has been in process for years

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MediocreModular@reddit

Do any other countries have military bases on US soil?

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ChilledRoland@reddit

Singapore has a similar training facility hosted at the same AFB.

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lukaskywalker@reddit

What possible reason would they have for having a facility in the USA. wtf

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ChilledRoland@reddit

Training their F-15 pilots; the same base (Mountain Home AFB) already hosts a similar facility for Singaporean F-15SE pilots.

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lukaskywalker@reddit

Training facility on a us base is a lot different from foreign base in us soil.

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ChilledRoland@reddit

Yep, and since it's the former the comments here as if it's the latter are overreactions.

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jjmdarkeagle@reddit

This is a bit out there, but given the possibility of eventual civil war/splitting of the military, is it possible that they're positioning external allies to assist? I'm not military so I don't know if this is even remotely reasonable, but it's all I can think of.

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WorldPeaceStyle@reddit

At best pilots get trained to fly F15 but for what yet another proxy war? Who pays for building a Sovereign Qatar Air Force base in Idaho? Was Congress even consulted? What happened to America First? All this money and aide given to Middle East Countries is getting out of hand. Like, getting out of the hands of the American Taxpayers. Seems like posturing to give into other Foreign Governments interests to destabilize the region and or remove Iran.

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LordDragonus@reddit

Qatar. Qatar pays for building some extra infrastructure at the established US base.

Deals like this provide a huge influx of money that is used to modernize our bases. I'm return, we help train their pilots.

Nothing is being given. Qatar bought F-15s, and now they're buying training.

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WorldPeaceStyle@reddit

ty

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EFIW1560@reddit

Theyre giving them part of a base that already exists, not building a brand new one.

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tator_tota1975@reddit

Jesus fucking Christ. It will be AIRMAN teach those Qatar pilots…not soldiers you dumb journalist.

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FIicker7@reddit

Can someone clear up some confusion I have? The US will build and own these facilities at this US base. Some people seem to think that Qatar will have its own facilities in the US.

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RossCollinsRDT@reddit

headline is tldr

I saw "Qatar ... build base .... US"

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popthestacks@reddit

So that’s what they bought with the plane

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RossCollinsRDT@reddit

yup my thoughts exactly plus we are throwing them a bone for not declaring war on Isreal for violating their air space.

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viktor_vokshy@reddit

Why though?

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Full_Wallaby8057@reddit

I read that and then reread that and was like um what....our government has gone insane....truly this is the mark of our government losing the last tiny bit of their minds like what the fuck. Nothing has been making sense before this, but somehow this makes even less fucking sense.

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Space_Cowfolk@reddit

i can only assume they're going to be welcomed with open arms by the very tolerant right....

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TheStruttero@reddit

I checked like 2 or 3 threads on r/conservative because I thought... surely they cant like this?

But Yes, Yes they can, or atleast brush it off as only being "training of US allies in a strategically important part of the world" (which is good apparently) and done all the time anyway, it would not be an actual foreign military base. The training would not be done with live ammunitions so there would be no actual danger during training and no actual valuable training would be conducted that could pose a future risk of fighter jet-trained islamists

One user said the article was click-baity, Im pretty sure I heard hegseth talk about an actual Qatari military base tho, I could remember wrong

... Are conservatives Ok?

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LordDragonus@reddit

Have you even looked up the base that is going to host Qatar? Mountain Home, look it up. They've had a Singaporean training squadron homed there for nearly 17 years. Joint training is nothing new.

We also have a very large base in Qatar, a critical piece of infrastructure in the fight against Islamic extremist factions like Daesh and, more recently, Iran's proxy war.

Believe it or not, if we want our allies to continue helping us, we must also help them.

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Bigtimeknitter@reddit

Remember 1/3 of activity online is estimated to be bots

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NickBurnsCompanyGuy@reddit

They the most highly regarded voters on the planet, some say super duper regarded.

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Frequent_Can117@reddit

Yes, let's give the country that supports and gives financial aid to Hamas, a terrorist group, a fucking base in our backyard.

Bails out Argentina with $40 fucking billion, gives terrorist sympathizers a base on our land. But won't give soldiers, ATC, etc backpay. Yeah, real America first alright.

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lashrew@reddit

Surprisingly, we actually host many other countries' troops and machinery on U.S. bases on U.S. soil. I had to look it up. I believe there is a big difference between hosting Qatar and hosting The Phillipines, of course, but this is not the first foreign facility on U.S soil. This is just another distraction from the Epstein files.

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Cultural-Basil-3563@reddit

Why?

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PilgrimOz@reddit

Melenia is admitting to back channels and the Qataris get an airforce base on US soil. But sure, it was the ‘Democrats’. Ps just release the files ya corrupt PDF

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makk73@reddit

lEtHaLiTy

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Individual-Engine401@reddit

Has anyone told Idaho? They aren’t going to like this one bit. Trump’s MAGA is a sellout.

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klutzikaze@reddit

Do Qatar know about this?

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Longjumping-Map7257@reddit

America first and all that nonsense...

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Femveratu@reddit

Being a big arms sales customer has its perks like included training on the hardware apparently

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dogdaysindurham@reddit

This isn’t that strange as Singapore already has similar facilities at that airbase in question. I believe they have been training over 25 years in the US.

Germany, England, and the Netherlands also have these long term joint accommodations in the US. There is also a joint NATO program to train folks on the F-35.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/qatar-to-establish-military-training-facility-in-idaho-which-countries-have-military-training-presence-in-the-us/amp_articleshow/124464382.cms

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ExtensionMoose1863@reddit

You mean the same Mountain Home air force base that already hosts a squadron of Singaporean F15s for training purposes?? Hmmm, seems like another rage bait headline...

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Senior_Suit_4451@reddit

Is Singapore funding terrorism?

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OtterSnoqualmie@reddit

Yeah but there is no appearance that Singapore prepaid.

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Slopadopoulos@reddit

This deal goes all the way back to 2017. There were already plans to allow for Qatari pilots to have their own facilities to be able to live and train on the base in 2022.

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Ok-Gas6717@reddit

Screw you for reading the article man

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ExtensionMoose1863@reddit

lol... exactly! Guess that makes me the asshole here

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NightmanisDeCorenai@reddit

Yeah it's just a facility at a base and not, ya know, a full on base.

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burgercleaner@reddit

"america first"

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Just-A-Thoughts@reddit

So classic question - if Biden/Obama/Clinton allowed a Qatari airforce base to be built on US Soil?!

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CAcastaway@reddit

Half my little conservative town in California moved up to Idaho because its too "liberal" for them. I really fucking hope you enjoy your new neighbors idiots, lol.

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thegoldeneel_@reddit

Redding lol

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Bigtimeknitter@reddit

Many other places than that are red in California

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EFIW1560@reddit

I lived in Chico area for a while and can confirm Redding is conservative AF.

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OtterSnoqualmie@reddit

In today's edition of:

There Is No Way This Can Go Wrong

A Qatari base in notoriously open and welcoming Idaho; aside from all of the other potential issues.

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Bigtimeknitter@reddit

Lmao good point too

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Outlaw_Josie_Snails@reddit

They’re not getting their own base, they’re getting a section of Mountain Home Air Force Base. They will be trained on fighter jets that they bought from the US.

Singapore already has a section on the same base.

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parakeetpoop@reddit

I actually needed this comment/info. This makes me feel a lot better/ less freaked out.

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Top-Elephant-2874@reddit

FAQs: https://apnews.com/article/idaho-qatar-us-air-force-base-fc1506584e7833dbde3e16fe8613b6b4

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New_Stats@reddit

It should not be a comfort. We train our close allies to fly the jets we sell them, this is normal and expected. Sometimes they pay to have a facility in the US where their pilots can go to be trained.

Qatar funds Hamas and various other terrorists. Singapore doesn't do that. The Philippines and Japan and South Korea and Germany and almost everyone else we sell planes to doesn't do that

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Pitbubba1@reddit

As I told a friend, you think Hamas is bad now? Wait till they have F-15 fighter jets.

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parakeetpoop@reddit

I’m not at all defending it or saying it’s ok. Dont get me wrong. But knowing it’s not their own independent base was something I needed to hear

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Ornery-Sheepherder74@reddit

This is a nice clarification, but worth saying there is a huge geopolitical difference between Singapore and Qatar.

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ganashi@reddit

To be clear, I’m always a bit wary about letting non-NATO forces into our bases, but logically this is the most practical way to train them up on the planes they purchased. It might look concerning but this is pretty routine when foreign countries purchase our jets and Qatar is smart enough to not fuck around.

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Senior_Suit_4451@reddit

We should not be selling terrorists weapons of war

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InspectionOk4267@reddit

Imagine being any more wrong than this lol, Qatar exclusively fucks around

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New_Stats@reddit

Qatar fucks around all the time what are you talking about

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40173757

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ganashi@reddit

They do not fuck with the US. We have a base in their country and have the biggest stick in the region, if they fuck around in the US for any reason it will end horribly for them and they are quite aware of that

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New_Stats@reddit

Oh so you know literally nothing about Qatar and are just pulling bullshit out from deep inside your asshole

Awesome

https://isgap.org/follow-the-money/

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Outlaw_Josie_Snails@reddit

Correct.

Singapore, while not a formal US ally, signed a defence memoranda of understanding with America in 1990 and has had enhanced cooperation agreements since then.

Qatar is an authoritarian regime which funded (funds?) Hamas for decades.

Yet, Qatar is officially a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) of the United States, a status designated by President Biden in 2022.

Geopolitics is very confusing to me at times.

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ExtensionMoose1863@reddit

They're also a nation of 2.8million people (roughly the size of St. Louis, MO) and their entire air force is 2k personnel with less than 100 combat aircraft so this is an absolute nothing-burger

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Senior_Suit_4451@reddit

tankie says what

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centurio_v2@reddit

what does qatar being a small country have to do with the soviets

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One-Employment3759@reddit

Other that demonstrating that Trump regime welcomes corruption and bribery from all nations great and small. USA is for sale.

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ExtensionMoose1863@reddit

Agreed ... Not new news and this is hardly the most egregious example.

Given this is prepper Intel, what are you doing with this news to change how you're prepping or what you're prepping for?

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shitchea420@reddit

good due diligence…world needs people like you, cause msm and the propaganda machine is hard at work

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ihavenoidea12345678@reddit

Finally a worthwhile headline.

Thanks!

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LeviathanTWB@reddit

Thank you so much for calming me lol this makes more sense.

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OtterSnoqualmie@reddit

Yup. With 3 year terms of service for Singaporean personnel.

However, there is an appearance of impropriety in our recent interactions with Qatar then the subsequent announcement. Where the Singaporean program was intended to strengthen a relationship with a Chinese neighborhood with significant downward pressure, Qatar has recently:

provided the commander in chief with a 'new air force one'
acted as the central negotiation pillar for the Israeli Hamas conflict
recently (9/29 ) had an entire executive branch policy letter written titled "Ensuring the Security of the State of Qatar", after they were bombed by Israel

How do you think it's going to go when Idaho does what Idaho does, not to a partner with objectively lesser power, but to Qatari nationals?

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sudo_vi@reddit

So does Sri Lanka, I think. I took a motorcycle safety course in Boise with a dude from the Sri Lankan air force who was working out at Mountain Home.

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Bigtimeknitter@reddit

I swear tg this admin is just Russia doing to us what we did to Iran with the Shah. Jesus Christ

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Kendle_C@reddit

No. We will not comply.

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Mhykael@reddit

I'm not cool with this. No other country should have a military base in it. Embassy, fine. But not this.

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lostndark@reddit

Umm, what?

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G_yebba@reddit

Just some casual treason, no biggie

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Popping_n_Locke-ing@reddit

Guantanamo North opening soon.

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SarpleaseSar@reddit

It's only fair if you ask me. The US has a base there, so why not?!

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Preference-Inner@reddit

What the fuck.

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fragrant-final-973@reddit

r/conservative assures me this is totally normal and happens all the time.

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NotEnoughFire@reddit

Robotville 🤖

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fragrant-final-973@reddit

Sadly, it's not. I encounter these people in the wild damn near every time I leave the house. I work with plenty of them and within our job function they are well educated, smart people who are awesome in our field.

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Preference-Inner@reddit

That's the pedophile subfourm

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fragrant-final-973@reddit

Sure are a lot of them over there.

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RedditMadeName@reddit

Seriously, why?

Potentially stupid question: has a foreign government built a military facility on US soil before?

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nanomeme@reddit

Well, that $400M luxury jet they gave the President wasn't just for nice points.

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AdUsed7094@reddit

I literally audibly gasped i dont think I’ve ever done that for a Reddit headline before

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eastside_coleslaw@reddit

and they got mad at Obama for a tan suit

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thehourglasses@reddit

“Wait a minute, you mean there’s corruption… in my openly corrupt government?!”

clutches pearls

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EFIW1560@reddit

"You got peanut butter in MY jelly!"

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onyxengine@reddit

Us is gonna fracture

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veryveryfrighten1ng@reddit

The US has been putting military bases in other countries for decades and expecting the rest of the world to just be cool with it.....

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brilongqua@reddit

Twat in da fuxk?

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These-Bedroom-5694@reddit

Call ICE on them, every, day.

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Outside_Park6014@reddit

Didn’t Qatar harbor the Hamas (terrorist group) officials ? How many Americans were kidnapped on Oct.7?? WTF Trump?

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_ForeverAndEver_@reddit

Went to /r/conservative to find the top comments on this that are definitely not Russian bots and paid actors - are super blase’ about it! This is clearly yawn-inducing stuff and they only have F-15’s and it’s supervised by the govt and what’s the problem cuck-beta libtards?!! Then the tone changes magically past a karma point where it’s all WTF and what is this to us? It’s a takeover to us, and the fucking moron red hats are the path into it. It happening, does it stop and if it does what stops it?

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luummoonn@reddit

Interesting facts: The current Attorney General Pam Bondi once worked as a foreign agent for Qatar.

On Bondi's first day in office as Attorney general, she shut down the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, shut down the DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture (which enforced sanctions on Russian oligarchs), and cut back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

This administration is being used by other countries to get what they want from America - and other countries, especially Russia, paid heavily for social media manipulation and influence campaigns to divide Americans and help get us where we are now.

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TraditionalLaw7763@reddit

Is this gonna be Trump’s private army too? I mean, he already took over ICE, pardoned all the J6 rioters and gave them jobs… so are these Qataris gonna be his personal Krav Maga’s ?

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suchdogeverymeme@reddit

Singapore is already there, that could be interesting. Otherwise Mountain Home doesn’t do much, it’s more of a preparedness base than much of anything tactical

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