A modest proposal: give our F-35s to all potential enemies and let them have a really expensive plane that doesn't work.
The Golden Oops Award to US Strategic Air Command that tweeted that it was prepared to drop something "much bigger" than the New Year's Eve crystal ball in Times Square. The tweet was followed by a video of a B-2 bomber dropping bombs. The blowback on social media was so fierce that the military quickly pulled the video and apologized that it "was in poor taste and does not reflect our values."
The Ethnic Sensitivity Award to the US State Department's director of policy planning, Kiron Skinner, who, at a public talk last April, said that the competition between the US and China was bitter, because "it's the first time that we will have a great-power competitor that is not Caucasian." This would come as a surprise to Pearl Harbor veterans. So exactly who does Skinner think we fought at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Saipan?
The Kudo Award to:
- The Stansted 15, who broke into the Stansted International Airport north of London in September and chained themselves together to block the British Home Office from deporting refugees from Ghana and Nigeria.
- Captain Pia Klemp, for rescuing more than 1,000 refugees from drowning in the Mediterranean. She is facing a 20-year prison sentence in Italy, even though not rescuing them would have been a violation of Article 98 of the 1982 UN Law of Sea.
- Artist Philipp Ruch, who constructed a replica of Berlin's Holocaust Memorial next to the house of far-right Alternative For Germany Thuringia state legislator Bjorn Hocke. Hocke has called the Berlin memorial a "monument of shame."
- Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, the little Swede that could.
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