He opens by yammering on and on about the brave men and women he put in harms way and congratulates himself for "evacuating" so many civilians.
He vows revenge against ISIL-k like it was a thing he'd thought of, no one else thought of it, eh?
He blathers about his son who died, on and on he goes.
Then a moment of silence.
He vows to "find and get them out" Americans stranded in Afghanistan after the troops withdraw so he's admitting they will not succeed in the mission he just said they would succeed in. 🙄
"...they gave me a list here. The first person I was instructed to call on was..."
He's literally reading a list of which reporter he's instructed to call on.
His answers to these pre-selected questions were terrible too.
With the possible exception of Britain, none of you have a leg to stand on either. The might of the American people has been your shield for most of a century, and it shows in your complete lack of military capability. Your nations would lose a war to the Canadians for God's sakes.
Did you know that the Canadian submarine fleet consists of 4 mothballed British diesel subs from the 90s, one of which caught fire on its maiden voyage home because some sailors left a hatch open while at sea and sea water caused an electrical fire?
Canada also operates a diesel submarine fleet that lacks the ability to operate in Arctic waters. Thankfully, it doesn't snow in Canada.
The mothballed subs, yes. The diesel submarine, that was new.
The sad thing is they'd still beat the Germans for example. Germany is a completely cuckolded society.
They also bought mothballed F18s from Australia I believe and because they're technically a last gen fighter, and at the end of their life cycle, they're already woefully out of date compared to literally every other country.
They were "world class" when we bought them, and continue to be front-line machines all over the world too.
Canada's air force is known for keeping ancient birds in service: we were the last nation to retire the F-101 VooDoo for just one example.
Actually, the Canadians bomb worse than the Europeans when you compare economies and military. But, yeah, Europe's military rankings and economic rankings are massively out of whack. (True, reducing everything to a single number is a gross oversimplification but it gives an easy standard of comparison).
Ironically enough (given the memes) France has the highest military ranking in Europe, and it's military and economic rankings are the same (7th in the world). UK goes from 6th economically to 8th militarily, which isn't that bad. Italy is 8th economically to 12th militarily. Canada and Germany are pretty much complete failures - Germany goes from 4th economically to 15th militarily, and Canada goes from 10th economically to 21st militarily.
South Korea ranks higher than every single European nation. Turkey's military ranks higher than any European nation besides France and the UK. Egypt and Iran both outrank Germany, and Indonesia comes out of freakin nowhere to be just behind Germany. And Japan ends up as the 5th strongest military in the world somehow - hopefully it's because of a secret battlemech or giant killer robot program they've got going.
I gave it to the Canadians because I've dealt with their field troops, and that of the Germans, French and several other NATO allies.
The Canadians were actually some semblance of battle ready, the rest were not. Military rankings aside, the French army might as well be a jobs program for smokers as far as I'm concerned.
The Germans were the worst. The California Highway Patrol could kick their asses.
It's nice to hear that the Canadian Forces members are professional despite being treated like shit at home.
Chronically underfunded for decades while using equipment way past its life cycle while politicians sabre-rattle and pork-barrel over procurement contracts while the general public couldn't care less since they don't consider the military to be a "respectable" career and parrot 1990s era talking points that we shouldn't be fighting foreign wars and instead should be "peacekeeping".