• [OT] Qatari air base in Idaho?!

    From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Fri Oct 10 20:13:13 2025
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    Suzee is getting new neighbours. It seems that Pete Hegseth has okayed a Qatari air base in Idaho!!

    I know that sounds like some kind of epic troll but I just saw that
    tidbit in this short video - and couldn't believe my ears:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AE1EhkVGfI [3 minutes]

    What the living FUCK???? This is the first time I've ever heard of the
    United States allowing a foreign military base on US soil and Qatar is
    not just *any* foreign country, it's where the top Hamas leadership
    lives and has been hosted in luxury for many years. Qatar is also
    believed to have spent close to $2 billion funding the pro-Hamas
    protests for the past two years.

    I thought people were pretty livid when they found out about the Chinese police stations in many Western countries - including Canada, the US,
    and much of Europe - but this would seem to be at least an order of
    magnitude worse. How could they possibly justify this?

    I've gotten used to Trump moving in mysterious ways but this has me
    completely baffled.
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    Rhino

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  • From moviePig@nobody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Fri Oct 10 23:13:58 2025
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    On 10/10/2025 8:13 PM, Rhino wrote:
    Suzee is getting new neighbours. It seems that Pete Hegseth has okayed a Qatari air base in Idaho!!

    I know that sounds like some kind of epic troll but I just saw that
    tidbit in this short video - and couldn't believe my ears:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AE1EhkVGfI [3 minutes]

    What the living FUCK???? This is the first time I've ever heard of the United States allowing a foreign military base on US soil and Qatar is
    not just *any* foreign country, it's where the top Hamas leadership
    lives and has been hosted in luxury for many years. Qatar is also
    believed to have spent close to $2 billion funding the pro-Hamas
    protests for the past two years.

    I thought people were pretty livid when they found out about the Chinese police stations in many Western countries - including Canada, the US,
    and much of Europe - but this would seem to be at least an order of magnitude worse. How could they possibly justify this?

    I've gotten used to Trump moving in mysterious ways but this has me completely baffled.

    It's a service station. Trump's Qatari plane is still under warranty.


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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Tue Oct 14 14:00:18 2025
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    On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:13:13 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    Suzee is getting new neighbours. It seems that Pete Hegseth has okayed a >Qatari air base in Idaho!!

    I know that sounds like some kind of epic troll but I just saw that
    tidbit in this short video - and couldn't believe my ears:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AE1EhkVGfI [3 minutes]

    What the living FUCK???? This is the first time I've ever heard of the >United States allowing a foreign military base on US soil and Qatar is
    not just *any* foreign country, it's where the top Hamas leadership
    lives and has been hosted in luxury for many years. Qatar is also
    believed to have spent close to $2 billion funding the pro-Hamas
    protests for the past two years.

    I thought people were pretty livid when they found out about the Chinese >police stations in many Western countries - including Canada, the US,
    and much of Europe - but this would seem to be at least an order of >magnitude worse. How could they possibly justify this?

    I've gotten used to Trump moving in mysterious ways but this has me >completely baffled.

    That was my initial reaction as well though while I don't know whether
    they're still doing it, Canada used to give the Germans CFB (Canadian
    Forces Base) Brandon as a training base for German armor. (Western
    Manitoba having a lot more open flat land than what was then still
    West Germany). I saw German soldiers all the time in the Winnipeg
    airport with a few buses labelled "CFB Brandon" in the airport parking
    lot when I lived there in the late 1980s.

    I agree with you on Chinese secret police offices (aka the "United
    Front Work Department") in Canada - and from what I've heard pretty
    much anywhere there is a Chinese diaspora in a lot of countries beyond
    the US and Canada.
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  • From suzeeq@suzeeq@imbris.com to rec.arts.tv on Tue Oct 14 15:12:35 2025
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    On 10/14/2025 2:00 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:13:13 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    Suzee is getting new neighbours. It seems that Pete Hegseth has okayed a
    Qatari air base in Idaho!!

    It's actually about 500 miles south of here.


    I know that sounds like some kind of epic troll but I just saw that
    tidbit in this short video - and couldn't believe my ears:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AE1EhkVGfI [3 minutes]

    What the living FUCK???? This is the first time I've ever heard of the
    United States allowing a foreign military base on US soil and Qatar is
    not just *any* foreign country, it's where the top Hamas leadership
    lives and has been hosted in luxury for many years. Qatar is also
    believed to have spent close to $2 billion funding the pro-Hamas
    protests for the past two years.

    I thought people were pretty livid when they found out about the Chinese
    police stations in many Western countries - including Canada, the US,
    and much of Europe - but this would seem to be at least an order of
    magnitude worse. How could they possibly justify this?

    I've gotten used to Trump moving in mysterious ways but this has me
    completely baffled.

    That was my initial reaction as well though while I don't know whether they're still doing it, Canada used to give the Germans CFB (Canadian
    Forces Base) Brandon as a training base for German armor. (Western
    Manitoba having a lot more open flat land than what was then still
    West Germany). I saw German soldiers all the time in the Winnipeg
    airport with a few buses labelled "CFB Brandon" in the airport parking
    lot when I lived there in the late 1980s.

    I agree with you on Chinese secret police offices (aka the "United
    Front Work Department") in Canada - and from what I've heard pretty
    much anywhere there is a Chinese diaspora in a lot of countries beyond
    the US and Canada.


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  • From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Tue Oct 14 19:40:37 2025
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    On 2025-10-14 6:12 p.m., suzeeq wrote:
    On 10/14/2025 2:00 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:13:13 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    Suzee is getting new neighbours. It seems that Pete Hegseth has okayed a >>> Qatari air base in Idaho!!

    It's actually about 500 miles south of here.
    I didn't mean that they'd necessarily be next door neighbours ;-)>>>
    I know that sounds like some kind of epic troll but I just saw that
    tidbit in this short video - and couldn't believe my ears:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AE1EhkVGfI [3 minutes]

    What the living FUCK???? This is the first time I've ever heard of the
    United States allowing a foreign military base on US soil and Qatar is
    not just *any* foreign country, it's where the top Hamas leadership
    lives and has been hosted in luxury for many years. Qatar is also
    believed to have spent close to $2 billion funding the pro-Hamas
    protests for the past two years.

    I thought people were pretty livid when they found out about the Chinese >>> police stations in many Western countries - including Canada, the US,
    and much of Europe - but this would seem to be at least an order of
    magnitude worse. How could they possibly justify this?

    I've gotten used to Trump moving in mysterious ways but this has me
    completely baffled.

    That was my initial reaction as well though while I don't know whether
    they're still doing it, Canada used to give the Germans CFB (Canadian
    Forces Base) Brandon as a training base for German armor. (Western
    Manitoba having a lot more open flat land than what was then still
    West Germany). I saw German soldiers all the time in the Winnipeg
    airport with a few buses labelled "CFB Brandon" in the airport parking
    lot when I lived there in the late 1980s.

    I agree with you on Chinese secret police offices (aka the "United
    Front Work Department") in Canada - and from what I've heard pretty
    much anywhere there is a Chinese diaspora in a lot of countries beyond
    the US and Canada.


    --
    Rhino
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