This morning HCR laid out the new 2025 Trump National Security Strategy. Reading it, the pit in my stomach grew. Even on its face, it’s a horror, but, deeper implications are even worse.
It’s a declaration of white Christian nationalism, isolationism, economic colonialism/extraction, and a threat to our neighbors. It insults and turns its back on our once trusted allies while aligning with Russia. It conflates diplomacy with extortion.
It is capitalism and the military industrial complex, Eisenhower warned us about, taken to its worst possible outcome. It’s shameful.
Everything you have pointed is true about the potential of war every 20 years for each new generation. It seems that the need for a “good fight” is always around the corner for those that have the “blood-lust” genes. As a medical person, this takes an emotional and physical toll on the persons involved in the combat and the medical profession to treat the war torn soldiers. It’s also a costly burden on the country’s citizens. At present, our military’s financial budget is in the hundreds of billions per year just to keep our troops trained, provided equipment, and supplies for a potential war or conflict. The conflicts or wars are not just affecting the military’s physical and mental wellbeing, but the secondary infliction of it affects the citizens and families.
"In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, which are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disputed area mostly located around the equator." -- Wikipedia
Sounds familiar with the new Strategy posted on the White House website and the talk posted on MeidasTouch by Ben on Saturday afternoon today-Saturday! Sounds like US getting this hemisphere, Russia getting Europe, China getting Asia & 1/2 Africa and Saudi Arabia getting 1/2 of Africa & Middle East
A vital analysis. But I don't buy that the US created the war in Iraq for "defeating terrorism and spreading democracy." The 9/11 conspiracy was related to the Saudis, who Bush Sr. knew well, and who provided a launch pad for the Iraq invasion, accompanied by torching others' oil wells and massacring retreating troops. The US invasion was immediately coupled with museum looting, and not at all with democracy,
Funny how they can pass this off as a "Police Action," when there are no police involved. Only an aircraft carrier group from the Department of War, ordered by the Secretary of War.
This is such utter bullshit (we know by now of the ridiculous distance to the US AND that our drugs come from Mexico and US pharmaceutical companies). Can you imagine if any country on the planet did this to boats off the coast of Miami!
Once again X coming with the facts. I think this is something they can’t escape. It’s gonna keep building and building. This is something that keeps getting bigger and bigger. And the story is getting bigger.
This morning HCR laid out the new 2025 Trump National Security Strategy. Reading it, the pit in my stomach grew. Even on its face, it’s a horror, but, deeper implications are even worse.
It’s a declaration of white Christian nationalism, isolationism, economic colonialism/extraction, and a threat to our neighbors. It insults and turns its back on our once trusted allies while aligning with Russia. It conflates diplomacy with extortion.
It is capitalism and the military industrial complex, Eisenhower warned us about, taken to its worst possible outcome. It’s shameful.
Everything you have pointed is true about the potential of war every 20 years for each new generation. It seems that the need for a “good fight” is always around the corner for those that have the “blood-lust” genes. As a medical person, this takes an emotional and physical toll on the persons involved in the combat and the medical profession to treat the war torn soldiers. It’s also a costly burden on the country’s citizens. At present, our military’s financial budget is in the hundreds of billions per year just to keep our troops trained, provided equipment, and supplies for a potential war or conflict. The conflicts or wars are not just affecting the military’s physical and mental wellbeing, but the secondary infliction of it affects the citizens and families.
"In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, which are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disputed area mostly located around the equator." -- Wikipedia
Sounds familiar with the new Strategy posted on the White House website and the talk posted on MeidasTouch by Ben on Saturday afternoon today-Saturday! Sounds like US getting this hemisphere, Russia getting Europe, China getting Asia & 1/2 Africa and Saudi Arabia getting 1/2 of Africa & Middle East
A vital analysis. But I don't buy that the US created the war in Iraq for "defeating terrorism and spreading democracy." The 9/11 conspiracy was related to the Saudis, who Bush Sr. knew well, and who provided a launch pad for the Iraq invasion, accompanied by torching others' oil wells and massacring retreating troops. The US invasion was immediately coupled with museum looting, and not at all with democracy,
I read of Iraqis pleading to no avail to US troops for protection their heritage sites. Oil installations, on the other hand, were guarded.
Thank you for your writing.
Also, thank you for your service in the military and in law enforcement. A true patriot.
Both done right are noble professions. Gen. Milley seemed the true patriot sort.
Funny how they can pass this off as a "Police Action," when there are no police involved. Only an aircraft carrier group from the Department of War, ordered by the Secretary of War.
This is an act of war, and they know it.
This is such utter bullshit (we know by now of the ridiculous distance to the US AND that our drugs come from Mexico and US pharmaceutical companies). Can you imagine if any country on the planet did this to boats off the coast of Miami!
Once again X coming with the facts. I think this is something they can’t escape. It’s gonna keep building and building. This is something that keeps getting bigger and bigger. And the story is getting bigger.