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William Lindsey :toad:

"The fundamental issue is that 18 high-ranking individuals were happy discussing extremely sensitive material on a private messaging app, highlighting the administration’s extraordinary amateurishness, recklessness and unaccountability.

The visceral hostility to Europe spelt out again by the vice-president, JD Vance, was glaring."

~ The Guardian


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theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The Guardian view on the Signal war plans leak: a US security breach speaks volumesBy Editorial

"So was the indifference to the potential civilian cost of the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, designed to curb attacks on Red Sea shipping. The Houthi-run health ministry said that 53 people including five children and two women were killed. The response by the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, to the attacks was to post emojis: a fist, an American flag and fire."


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"The lack of contrition for this security breach is also telling. Individually and together, these are far more than a 'glitch', in Donald Trump’s words. They are features of his administration."


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@wdlindsy The NSA should send out a notice that none of these messaging applications should be "operatin by das dumkopfen!"

@wdlindsy maybe it's sort of a psyops aiming to have people hate America, kinda taunting them.. it's like they aim for USA to be alone, so they have no allies, no one that trusts them (except Putin I guess)

@wdlindsy

Evidently the Administration have just disbanded several entities within the Pentagon tasked with minimising civilian casualties. …not manly enough, I'll guess, for their Rogan/Tate/U.F.C. bloc of voters.

nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/poli

The New York Times · Hegseth Cuts Pentagon Work on Preventing Civilian HarmBy John Ismay