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Excuse me, what?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should be impeached and removed by a bipartisan group of House members. This is the latest reason, but not the only reason.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

This is Hegseth trying to make it sound like a bigger deal than it is. We have friendly foreign air forces in the US for training exercises and the like all the time, especially ones that use US equipment. That's what this is. It's not like an operational deployment or giving them a whole airbase.

Perhaps this is, in fact, that. But, yeah, the timing here and the wording makes it suspect. That, and in 2022 America was, in large part, a very different country under leadership more consistent with those...um... American values we hear so often about.

someone linked me this from 2022 so maybe this was just the kind of thing that was going to happen anyway? like the US trains a bunch of other nations and maybe the Idaho base needs expanding to accomodate the Qatari's being trained? something like that?

spokesman.com$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho baseBOISE – The U.S. Air Force may soon bring 170 members of Qatar’s air force to live on the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. They would be coming to learn to fly the newest model of the F-15 fight...