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William Ruger 🇺🇸

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William Ruger 🇺🇸

@WillRuger

Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration; AFG Vet; US Navy Reserve; formerly Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board; Oxford Comma.

Washington DC

Joined October 2015

William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Apr 4, 2021
My 16 year old son was denied entry to Arlington National Cemetery today because he didn’t have ID on him. Was going to see my grandfather who was in Battle of the Bulge. The reasons given for why ID required to visit the dead @ cemetery with three foot walls were flimsy as hell.
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Sep 14, 2021
Let's think about the consequences to our troops of General Milley alerting an adversary of a pending attack.......
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Aug 16, 2024
Where is the $25K housing subsidy going to come from? Asking for a country of friends already $35 trillion in debt.
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William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Mar 4, 2022
Notice how it’s always 1938 and never 1914 (or 1871, 1853, 1956, 1968, etc).
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Apr 4, 2021
Replying to @WillRuger
I’m guessing the idea that you’d have to show a govt ID to visit a military cemetery would have been repulsive to the people like my grandfather who fought for our freedom.
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Aug 16, 2021
@POTUS is displaying real courage by sticking with a decision that remains prudential given the realities about Afghanistan and the United States. Biden is showing the requisite realist spine that America needs at this moment. And for that he should be praised, not damned.
Jacob Heilbrunn
@JacobHeilbrunn
Aug 16, 2021
The Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Still the Best Course for the United States | The National Interest from ⁦@WillRuger⁩ nationalinterest.org/feature/afghan…
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Oct 26, 2022
George Kennan, the father of containment, suggesting in 1997 that NATO expansion would be: "the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold War era."
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Feb 9, 2021
What could have caused a year without a U.S. combat death in #Afghanistan? And what could end that streak? Thank you to the Trump administration, especially @US4AfghanPeace stripes.com/news/middle-ea…
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Sep 14, 2021
Again, huge caveat about whether this true, but this would be Benedict Arnold territory.
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Sep 14, 2021
Replying to @washingtonpost
“If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,” Milley said. Li took the chairman at his word, the authors write in the book, “Peril,” which is set to be released next week. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Oct 3, 2024
For all the Reagan haters out there, ponder this:
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William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Nov 13, 2024
If you want to understand the @PeteHegseth pick for SECDEF, recall what candidate Trump said at the Mayflower in 2016. I was there in the small audience and this memorable line stood out to me at the time. I haven't forgotten it since. And this is why Pete has the potential to
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William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
May 17, 2021
If you read the Axios piece and think the generals and bureaucrats are the good guys, you should rethink your commitment to democratic rule and liberal civil-military relations.....
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
May 26, 2020
If @realDonaldTrump delivers on this, it will be a huge win for the national interest. Given the normal incentives to maintain the status quo and some important elite opposition, it would also show political courage even as a majority of Americans right now support getting out.
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
@Tmgneff
May 26, 2020
Trump Wants Troops in Afghanistan Home by Election Day. The Pentagon Is Drawing Up Plans. Via @julianbarnes nytimes.com/2020/05/26/wor…
William Ruger 🇺🇸
@WillRuger
Jul 8, 2021
Dream answer would be: "Not the job of U.S. troops to protect human rights around the world. Job is to secure America's homeland, protect the conditions of our economic security, and maintain our liberal democratic system here at home,"