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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe point of this July 4th display is for Trump to demonstrate that he "rebuilt the military"
He's claimed without proof that Obama destroyed the military. said that lie over and over and over again. This will be his show that he built America's mighty military structure. As if we only had pointy sticks before.-----------------------------------------
Trumps claim to having rebuilt the military is also foundational to his tale of revived American greatness and his own authorship of it. He pulled out of the Iran deal international diplomacy had produced a weak solution and will now force Iranian capitulation by threatening unilateral obliteration.
There is no doubt that Trump envisions this Fourth of July speech delivered amid a show of military might as a display of his own imagined role in restoring U.S. greatness.
But the whole story Trump told about American decline is false, and it is producing epic policy disasters. The demented worldview undergirding his lies about immigrants is producing a horrific humanitarian catastrophe. The anti-globalization rhetoric while containing kernels of truth has in practice produced a combination of bread-and-circuses bluster toward foreign elites and destructive trade wars with no end.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/03/trumps-hijacking-july-th-just-got-lot-uglier/?utm_term=.70bfe9325884
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The point of this July 4th display is for Trump to demonstrate that he "rebuilt the military" (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jul 2019
OP
Rebuilt the military? He sure had a bunch of aircraft carriers and planes built fast!
tableturner
Jul 2019
#3
leftieNanner
(14,997 posts)1. They were NOT pointy sticks
And that is the problem. The Orange One put them in to the pencil sharpener - which by his thought process - equates to rebuilding the military.
Please, Goddess, relieve us of this misery!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. "This is out-and-out banana republic authoritarian performance art."
Charles Pierce
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28261884/president-trump-military-parade-fourth-of-july-authoritarian/
#4 of the 14 Characteristics of Fascism:
Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
( sadly, not even a stretch of the imagination is needed to see that all 14 now apply to our country)
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html
The 15 countries with the highest military spending worldwide in 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
USA $649 Billion ( does not count all the 'secret" spending)
China, the next highest military spending is only $250 billion
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262742/countries-with-the-highest-military-spending/
Russia is wayyyy down the list @ $61.04 billion
tableturner
(1,676 posts)3. Rebuilt the military? He sure had a bunch of aircraft carriers and planes built fast!
It takes years to add key elements to our military. It is not better equipped than before he was in office.
maveric
(16,445 posts)4. Dick polishing
MFM008
(19,776 posts)5. Hey
Just like Hitler...