• edge [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    General Michael Langley

    That has to be made up. "Hi I'm General Mike CIA".

    • whatup
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      4 months ago

      Knowing how much of an old-money spoils system those sorts of roles are, he’s probably the great-great-great-great fail son of the guy Langley’s named after. Nepo babies are, like, 99.9 percent of the one percent. Upwardly mobile monsters like Bezos are an anomaly.

      • edge [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        I thought that might be the case, but nope it’s named after some hamlet in the middle of nowhere, England.

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        4 months ago

        It's a fairly common British surname. There could be someone who posts here with that name.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      At one point the main representative of the US State Department to the press was one Ned Price.

      • Greenleaf [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Biden’s head of global anti-corruption is named Rich Nephew.

  • notthenameiwant [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I want to be hopeful about this, but Iraq tried doing something similar, and the US is still there.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        The americans will stay until casualties are too high to pretend they're training accidents. They will never leave just by asking.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Niger can do the same thing that Mali did to France. Siege the embassies and bases, cut them off from all food water and power and just play chicken to see if the US will invade over it or fuck off

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Stop being so negative American power is crazy thin right now it’s basically now or never

        • sir_this_is_a_wendys [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          We'll see how well they can really maintain those 800+ bases when people realize they can't actually fight every country on earth.