Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/global-events/worldwide-caution.html

by supernova215 • 4 months ago

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ceejayoz• 4 months ago

I am tired of winning.

fouc2• 4 months ago

winning what?

toomuchtodo• 4 months ago

One of President Donald Trump’s lines during the 2016 presidential campaign was his promise that, “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”

https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2016/user-clip-too-much...

Trump says US is 'winning so much' in longest ever State of the Union - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQUGjRtq-M - February 25th, 2026

Hence the joke, "I am tired of winning." as the situation continues to rapidly degrade through policy choices. So much winning, it's too much.

cdrnsf3• 4 months ago

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Arubis• 4 months ago

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1over137• 4 months ago

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cdrnsf3• 4 months ago

Indeed, particularly given that ICE agents are going to be deployed to airports. Their penchant for killing civilians and otherwise violating civil rights only to lie about their actions hardly seems like a good fit for airport security duties they haven’t been trained to perform.

pier25• 4 months ago

I travelled to the US some weeks ago and was anxious but everything turned out ok. I'm happy I don't have to go back any time soon.

cogman102• 4 months ago

Is this an orange, purple, or magenta threat level?

SlightlyLeftPad• 4 months ago

Approaching ultraviolet, invisible to the naked eye but still very much a threat. “there is no war, only excursions.”

refulgentis2• 4 months ago

lol.

The current situation has been giving me so many flashbacks. Here, my GWB-era teens had the terror threat level, and now we're lazily reimagining State Department traveling warnings as a dark slapstick version (be afraid everywhere, American!)

morkalork2• 4 months ago

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...

https://theonion.com/no-blood-for-oil-vs-exactly-how-much-oi...

cmdrmac• 4 months ago

My first thought: You don't say?

agnishom• 4 months ago

Right? What kind of person does not follow the news but subscribes to the State Department notifications?

nandomrumber3• 4 months ago

All the people who decided to stay in the Middle East even when the second carrier group was en route, and then thought they were news worth enough to get on camera and comment about there being no commercial flights out of there.

readitalready2• 4 months ago

When do we expect Iranians to actually attack US military bases outside the middle east? I heard there were already drones flying over bases in the US: https://wjla.com/news/local/unidentified-drones-fly-over-for...

cj• 4 months ago

They technically have:

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-fires-missiles-remot...

readitalready2• 4 months ago

NATO says they can't confirm this Israeli claim: https://aje.news/ohi6b8?update=4425189

And Iran denies it as well: https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2035477318055985648

Makes you wonder who really did launch those missiles?

mrbombastic2• 4 months ago

Crazy how effective at making everything worse this admin has been.

arvid-lind• 4 months ago

That's the strategy of Project 2025, make all the nice things we have much worse and broken so there's no choice but to scrap and start over. While they're in charge, of course.

MengerSponge• 4 months ago

Showing that government doesn't work by making sure government doesn't work.

fundad3• 4 months ago

Project 2025 and the Trump administration is the most success ant-growth movements have ever had.

stackghost3• 4 months ago

Trump is but a symptom of an underlying sickness. Things won't magically go back to normal after he dies.

malfist• 4 months ago

Did someone say they would?

michaelhoney• 4 months ago

It will be a lot harder to convince voters when he's gone... if the US still has elections

majormajor• 4 months ago

Very few other people have Trump's ability to channel frustration in a nonspecific-but-charismatic way that connects the various extreme factions of the American right.

None of those factions will be gone, but their battles will weaken their cause more than they have since 2016.

Some of this can be seen by how even his own popularity falls any time he actually has power, since there are no effective ideas there, only misplaced blame, and that doesn't sustain support for four years. Without him there at all in an out-of-power period, the "blame the Jews"/"blame the brown people"/"blame the women"/"blame the baby-killers"/"blame the anti-Semites"/"blame the sexual deviants" factions will likely fail to find another person they all rally around.

jb827• 4 months ago

America has neglected working class people for decades. The economy has shifted from supporting earning income to make a decent living, to protecting assets (bail outs etc.) Trump tapped into this and tricked these people into electing him, bringing along right wing or whatever they are.. and they got hold of power. Don't think numbers are there for this culture war crowd to stay in power unless they hitch a ride with someone. (edited: typo)

JeremyNT• 4 months ago

Having somebody less incompetent, senile, and corrupt at the helm may not make things "magically go back to normal," but it's a step in the right direction. Necessary but not sufficient.

Perhaps you'll be explicit though, what is the "sickness" you perceive?

nozzlegear2• 4 months ago

Could you enlighten the class as to what you believe the underlying sickness is?

elromulous• 4 months ago

Agreed. But also why are you speaking like Yoda?

encrypted_bird8• 4 months ago

They're not; they're speaking colloquially: this is the word "It's" omitted from the beginning.

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*EDIT*: Corrected word. Lol.

jazzpush2• 4 months ago

Has there been any official WH note on the need for this war, yet? Or objectives?

bdangubic4• 4 months ago

20 or so far, there is a new one each day

giwook• 4 months ago

And all of them different from the last and/or contradicting each other at times.

It's like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

nclin_3• 4 months ago

Yes, they are flooding the zone with many alternative explanations so that they're both all deniable, and all accessible to anyone who finds just one of them convincing. This is a strategy.

mememememememo• 4 months ago

This war is not a war. Not a.war war. Just a "war". No war has been declared.

briantakita• 4 months ago

We already won. Are you tired of winning yet?

refulgentis2• 4 months ago

It's a special operation

znpy• 4 months ago

It identifies as a special operation and people should just respect that.

daheza• 4 months ago

They rebranded to the department of war but its not a war. We definitely don't want war, but we want all soldiers to be warriors. Still not warmongering.

disqard2• 4 months ago

Excuse me, it's an "excursion", not a war.

bdangubic4• 4 months ago

I got jumped in Italy couple of weeks ago. I was wearing a "volleyball dad" hoodie my kid bought for me but did not realize that the "volleyball dad" is etched in the middle of a large American flag covering my entire back. Luckily (for him, not me :) ) three police officers were 10 meters away walking the area dealing with apre ski drunks and restrained him. fun times

kylehotchkiss• 4 months ago

oof I would not wear an American flag outside the country. We've hurt too many feelings. Like any good American though, a Canadian flag works.

stackghost3• 4 months ago

Like any good American though, a Canadian flag works.

Please don't do this.

nclin_3• 4 months ago

people*

bdangubic4• 4 months ago

didn’t even know I was wearing it (honestly never even noticed anything other that “volleyball dad”) but rest assured I wore it every day for the rest of the trip

genthree• 4 months ago

I find avoiding legible and most "graphic" clothing, period, works great.

Plus it usually looks better.

Not sure why you need any flag on you.

razodactyl• 4 months ago

Crazy does and crazy do. Be vigilant and try not to set these people off. There's no rhyme or reason, some people are just faulty in the head.

lyu072822• 4 months ago

r/thathappened

terminalshort2• 4 months ago

Didn't happen

bdangubic4• 4 months ago

yes, this is exactly the kind of story one would be dreaming up to share, I think if one was to make up a non-existent story one would come up with a lot more "interesting" one that this one :)

mlrtime2• 4 months ago

Sorry that happened to you, Italy has not been a safe place for tourists long before this administration.

What did the attackers say to you that told their intention was to harm you for having an American flag?

beloch• 4 months ago

The U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye.

No thankyou.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o

taneq2• 4 months ago

I feel like "form your own private paramilitary organisation with minimal oversight, then expand their reach by having them take over the operations of other government departments" has been done before somewhere, as part of a larger plan.

nclin_3• 4 months ago

This is a historical pattern: Bringing border forces to bear against your own population, because those border forces are trained to deal with people who don't have the rights of the state.

encrypted_bird8• 4 months ago

It has. (Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case I'm not surprised it went over my head. Lol.)

gotwaz2• 4 months ago

They dont have all the skills to do anything super complex in a sustainable way. Already proved in the first term. What their existence demonstrates is winning election is not super complex if you can find enough groups to precisely target and pander/capture attention. Social media has been a force multiplier for such behavior and the people that have emerged dont have any other skill other than attention capture. But thats short term win like full focus on marketing while product and operations have no hope of catching up. Every "large plan" will fail. Large plans in complex ever changing environments always need massive cooperation of very different skills. Never happens sustainably with just one skill dominating all.

nandomrumber3• 4 months ago

Would anyone argue that the TSA, Theatre Security Agency, shouldn’t be defunded?

hmmokidk• 4 months ago

This isn’t that.

tombert4• 4 months ago

There's an argument for that, though I think replacing it with Trump's basically-unregulated private military is pretty concerning.

Macha• 4 months ago

Replacing it with nothing in an orderly fashion? Probably a good move.

Replacing them with ICE as a political gesture? Not so much

derf_• 4 months ago

The TSA is responsible for more than just airports. As someone with family who works (worked) on port security in the maritime division, I would argue that Chesterton's Fence [0] applies here just as much as anywhere else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

mlrtime2• 4 months ago

Depends on what defunded means... if it means pay/control shifting from a Federal agency to local, then yes.

Maning, airports / municipalities should be funding this. If airports were in control the the user experience, I bet you would see a lot better outcomes.

vkou3• 4 months ago

It shouldn't be defunded, because as stupid as it and the 2001 politics that spawned it were, anything MAGA will replace it with in 2026 would be way worse.

AceJohnny2• 4 months ago

So ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports

It's even more disgusting than that:

"Tom Homan: ICE officers will not assist with airport security scanning amid TSA staffing shortage"

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5795316-homan-ice-...

bananalychee• 4 months ago

I can't tell what's supposed to be disgusting about this unless you stopped reading past the inflammatory headline.

fundad3• 4 months ago

Enter the country and you interact with CBP and that hasn't changed. CBP agents are the ones who murdered the legal observers in Minneapolis so there's that.

TSA checks bags for commercial airlines which is a service that should never have been nationalized.

jordanb• 4 months ago

It would really be amazing if the end result of all of this is the post-9/11 DHS finally gets reverted back to what we had before.

diego_moita2• 4 months ago

It will be so much fun to watch the World Cup from outside the US...

SSLy• 4 months ago

Remember to use a pirate stream.

dzonga• 4 months ago

why are common people paying for the incompetence of a gvt.

to not be political this lies at the heart of principles, morals, meritocracy

values that the current gvt lacks & things that drove america forward.

tremon2• 4 months ago

That's because the common people voted for the incompetent. Not being political either, of course.

dotancohen2• 4 months ago

In what part of the world does the populace not suffer for the incompetence of their leaders? St. Petersburg? Ramallah? Port Au Prince?

hsbauauvhabzb• 4 months ago

People vote for the current government. I’m not sure why you would expect others’ to pay for americas internal messes, we’re already busy dealing with the external ones.

refurb• 4 months ago

The federal government hasn't passed a budget because the Democrats are blocking it. They feel it's worth the political gamble to cause Americans pain and that it'll turn on Trump.

There you go - mystery solved.

terminalshort2• 4 months ago

Because it's the government they voted in. Typical American take. Wanting no responsibility for the adverse effects of your decision.

tombert4• 4 months ago

I'm American, I didn't vote for Trump, so I don't feel like it's me dealing with adverse effects of my decisions.

I did vote for Eric Adams in NYC, and while Eric Adams didn't advertise blatant corruption as part of his campaign, insofar that I can be blamed for his idiocy and bribes I will accept responsibility. I didn't vote for him the second time around and I feel foolish for voting for him the first time.

UltraSane• 4 months ago

Trump wrecks everything he touches.

bradleyankrom• 4 months ago

Bankrupting a casino is a literal thing he did and also a pretty decent metaphor for what he's doing now.

softwaredoug• 4 months ago

This is so non-specific to be meaningless.

Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety.

alephnerd• 4 months ago

Like actually tell us what you know so we can make useful decisions about our safety

"Americans abroad should follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate."

chneu2• 4 months ago

This is just more victim fear being pushed so (mostly Christian) conservatives can claim to be the victims, once again, as they colonize another people/land.

drgo• 4 months ago

A small price for demonstrating that our El-Douche is always right and a stable genius.

tombert4• 4 months ago

What the fuck was even the intended purpose of starting this war in Iran? Like in their mind, what was the best case scenario?

intended3• 4 months ago

Remove Epstein from the news cycle?

chneu2• 4 months ago

Hegseth is a white christian nationalist with a crusades tattoo. Whatcha think the intended purpose is here? People said this was going to happen when he was nominated.

There's a christian prophecy involving israel occupying certain lands, a cow, and some other nonsense. A weirdly high number of Americans, mostly christians, believe it. There are a ton of them in the Trump admin.

vkou3• 4 months ago

1. Distracting from domEstic ProblemS. StarTing a rEgIoNal war is an effective way to do that.

2. Kidnapping Maduro made the rest of Venezuela's government roll over and play fetch, they are stupid enough to believe it would have worked again.

3. Israel says jump, GOP asks 'how high'?

4. There are no negative consequences to them killing people, driving the country into ruinous debt, or blowing up the American economy through higher energy prices. The drawbacks simply don't exist.

It's all upshot, zero downshot.

ggm2• 4 months ago

Would the current state of affairs qualify for cancelling the mid-terms? Is that overly cynical?

Not in the US, not a US citizen or voter. My suspicion is the answer is "no, but it is not a given that a competent supreme court which looks likely to overturn the WH exists, if they say they want to do this"

atq2119• 4 months ago

AFAIUI, elections in the US are not run by the federal government but by the states.

Trying to cancel elections seems like it'd be a lot harder than in other countries.

ggm2• 4 months ago

Hopefully that is reassuring. Worryingly I would like some sense of confirmation but in any case I expect a declaration it's not a valid real result because that's what happened before, counts not withstanding.

Tadpole91812• 4 months ago

The US does not have a legal avenue for cancelling elections regardless of circumstances without a constitutional amendment. It cannot happen under any conditions or circumstances.

To do so would basically be an open announcement of dictatorship and - more than we have already - the end of rule of law and a likely civil war.

disqard2• 4 months ago

You are more confident about this than I am. Let's revisit this comment in December.

I truly hope you are proved right by history, but I'm concerned.

marysminefnuf• 4 months ago

So the presidents personal law enforcement that is tasked with racially profiling people who overwhelmingly do not pose a threat are going to now be conducting security directly from the source where millions of foreign travelers come through…hmmm…ridiculous

flowerthoughts• 4 months ago

On the flip side, I _think_ there's actually less and less about Epstein visible, so I think WH is winning that war. Or at least successfully postponing battles.

nisiddharth• 4 months ago

"Americans", do they own the entire American continent?

padjo• 4 months ago

They certainly behave as if they do.

metalman• 4 months ago

There is a worldwide consensus that the American State should exercise increased caution.

Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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