Low-cost made-on-the-fly weapons systems like drones have completely upended warfare as we have known it, and we haven’t even seen the introduction of Artificial Intelligence systems into this new weapons landscape yet.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
What are we going to do to beat Trump's gang of authoritarian thugs who want to shred the Constitution and put tanks and soldiers in our streets? As the old saying goes, nice guys finish last.
Given the results of the election in November and a look at the list of suck-ups and house pets Trump wants to serve in his Cabinet, you can guess the answer without too much mental strain.
The media expects Biden to toe some imaginary line drawn while Trump promises to pardon insurrectionists convicted of attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Some of Trump’s Cabinet picks will crash under the weight of bureaucracies that are too large, too complex, spread out and too expert at dealing with right-wing crazies that happen along with big ideas and small brains.
Kash Patel is just one more grifter in the great panoply of Trump loyalists who have made careers out of their closeness and loyalty to the Great Man, for which he was promoted ever-upward.
Who among us will be surprised if the TRUMP brand isn’t emblazoned on the North Portico of the White House with signs welded to the outer perimeter fence reading “Open for business! Gift Shop inside! We accept Bitcoin and WLFI tokens!”
No wonder Trump nominated Hegseth to run the Pentagon. It would be like having a mini-me over there across the Potomac doing his bidding, at least when he isn’t blocking hotel room doors on visits to Europe.
Wars make sense to those seeking to vanquish others for their own gain. Wars are forced on those who must defend themselves against conquest, thus the sense they make is dictated, not chosen, as from a menu of options.
What kind of leadership example could possibly be set by the appointment of two sleazebag sex offenders to critical cabinet postings?
Trump has already made perfectly clear that each one of his cabinet appointees will be expected to be loyal not to the Constitution and the country, but to Donald Trump.
Right now tens of thousands of men and women in service are steeling themselves for what is coming their way. They have steeled themselves before when incompetence and political hackdom came through their doors.
Ideas cannot be destroyed, nor can the ideals we have fought to preserve, protect, and extend so that they can outlive us in our children and our children’s children.
We must not fall into the trap of feeling that we are special because we strove with our votes for goodness and have been crushed by our losses at the polls.
For nearly 250 years we have been making mistakes as a nation and then going back and getting it right, or nearly so. Today is our opportunity to make another major and lasting correction.
Even given the problems we have with poverty and want, the United States is not the “failing country” that Donald Trump says we are.