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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould DUers please explain the meaning of national security to me?
If it isn't about the safety of citizens, what is it about?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)there is no peace, tranquility or security and he has the nerve to believe is is a great leader
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Hes going to do even worse between now and the elections.
Maybe his base will die of COVID-19 between all the daily rallies he plans to have each and every day for the next two months. I wont weep for them.
TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)until there is justice.
malaise
(269,054 posts)safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)There is always a song in my head and my heart.
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)National security or national defence is the security and defence of a nation state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government.
Originally conceived as protection against military attack, national security is now widely understood to include also non-military dimensions, including the security from terrorism, minimization of crime, economic security, energy security, environmental security, food security, cyber-security etc. Similarly, national security risks include, in addition to the actions of other nation states, action by violent non-state actors, by narcotic cartels, and by multinational corporations, and also the effects of natural disasters.
Governments rely on a range of measures, including political, economic, and military power, as well as diplomacy, to safeguard the security of a nation-state. They may also act to build the conditions of security regionally and internationally by reducing transnational causes of insecurity, such as climate change, economic inequality, political exclusion, and nuclear proliferation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security
malaise
(269,054 posts)Thanks
House of Roberts
(5,177 posts)Using our military to secure and protect other nations' natural resources, that our oligarchs want for themselves at well below market value. Otherwise, geopolitical foes' oligarchs might get those resources instead, using their countries' militaries.
malaise
(269,054 posts)We peons don't matter
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)old guy
(3,283 posts)safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)Has never been more true than now.
malaise
(269,054 posts)It's been true for a very long time
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)They're also pining for the 18th century (and earlier), when blacks were owned or killed at random, Native Americans were slaughtered, women were raped and beaten just for breathing, and LGBTQ people could be burned as witches. We also belonged to a foreign nation then too. This time it isn't Britain. "The Wall" is meant to keep the serfs in. That's national security.
They believe that was when America was great. White, straight, Christian men made the laws and had all the rights.
This explains his yellow powdered wig on that hollow Trump-O-Lantern of a head.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Correct is right
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Well, when Republicans are in charge, they promptly deploy National Security against the Citizens of the United States and impose fascist rule over them. It may have been softer and kinder in the past, but their motives were all the same as today. After all, just where did Bill Barr get his start and does he give a damn about democracy in the United States?
Republicans are shit stain frauds that must exposed so that every person in this country shames the very thought of the criminals.