After years of advocating "America First," President Donald Trump's administration, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday, "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."It led to a...
    • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      622·
      2 个月前

      Now everyone knows how weak we are and exactly how to get whatever they want from us.

      • evenglow@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 个月前

        Go look up how long it took Trump to call Xi after China hit the off button for rare earth metals.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        18·
        2 个月前

        Lol … most powerful military in history and all you have to do defeat it is … threaten to stop investing in them.

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
      55·
      2 个月前

      That’s ridiculous. Qatar holds like a billion or two in US Treasuries, which isn’t even a minute’s worth of trading volume. Japan, China, UK, all closer to a trillion, would be a serious threat. Even UAE at $100B. But Qatar?

      No, if anything this is payback for the nice airplane Qatar gave to “Trump Library.”

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
      45·
      2 个月前

      Tinfoil hat: the threat was just a ruse to provide plausible deniability. The actual reason they are allowed to establish an air base on US soil is because they gave Trump a $400M airplane.

    • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      13·
      2 个月前

      So you have a source? Because this would be amazing to have in a discussion with some maga idiots I know.

    • cmbabul@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 个月前

      Is there a source on that? Not saying it’s not true I’m just having trouble finding anything atm

    • Bone@lemmy.world
      149·
      2 个月前

      Google AI (sorry) indicates this is a false story. “Reports of Qatar threatening to sell all its U.S. Treasury bonds are false. The rumor, which gained some traction in September 2025, appears to have stemmed from a misinterpretation of remarks made by a Qatari official.” I asked it, “did qatar threaten to sell all its us treasury bonds?”

        • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
          111·
          2 个月前

          how does one even know and verify what an LLM’s “sources” are? wouldn’t it just vomit out whatever response and then find “sources” that happen to match its stupid output after the fact?

          • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            2 个月前

            Precisely my point. But if it is correct and can link to an authoritative source (eg. a news article), that is relatively easy to verify.

            How much you can trust a news article is still up for debate.

            • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
              1·
              2 个月前

              so then all the value it brings is the exact same thing search engines have already been doing for decades.

        • Bone@lemmy.world
          41·
          2 个月前

          Sure, but where are the sources saying it’s true what OP stated? It seems harder to prove a rumor.

          • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            2 个月前

            Agreed, I’m more worried about people blindly trusting AI than I am about this particular situation.