3w ago

The Final Boss

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This will make it much easier for the Qatari air force to carry out their combat air patrols over Montana.
That was likely part of the price the Qataris wanted to put pressure on Hamas to accept Trump‘s deal. Worth it.
- https://simpleflying.com/usaf-modify-qatar-boeing-747-8-executive-airlift/
You only wish this was the final boss of “imagine if Obama did it.” Trump could cook and eat a baby on live tv and his cult would call it a bold tactic to own the libs.
- AND he’d face no repercussions. Congress would applaud him
  
  It would be an "official act"
  /s
Are they the ones that bribed him with a plane or the ones that bribed him with crypto? I can't keep up.
I really don't yet see what the strategic interests being served in this are. An airbase in the US is a strategic liability for Qatar, and just a weird thing for the US that seems unnecessary. I've yet to read a really good analysis of this, but it's a really remarkable turn of events. Whatever is behind it, I would like to understand.
- Probably has to do with human smuggling but I dont want to start any conspiracies.
The Final Boss, so far...
Ethics/morality aside, it's a pretty smart financial move to sell goods and services to multiple sides of a prolonged conflict. Sure, some of them might figure it out and bomb an iconic skyscraper in a major city, but what's a few thousand peasant lives against the billions of dollars that could be gained?
The US has an air base in Qatar, it makes sense for Qatar to have an air base in the US.
- It would be kind of hilarious of every country that the US had an air base in also had an air base in the US. The American pearl clutching alone would be quite the entertainment.

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