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"Hopefully we’ll never have to use it, but nobody is going to mess with us. Nobody," Trump said last week. "It will be one of the greatest military buildups in American history."
He repeatedly summoned the ghosts of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and George Patton
THE TAKEAWAY
There's a facile contention that President Trump — hostile to free trade pacts and skeptical of grand military alliances — is an isolationist, an advocate of American retreat and retrenchment on the global stage. This is not quite true: As Cambridge historian Stephen Wertheim noted earlier this month, "Trump isn't an isolationist. He is a militarist, something far worse."
Throughout the election campaign, Trump proclaimed that he would be the military's president. He repeatedly summoned the ghosts of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and George Patton and spoke in their name. Dumping even more money into defense spending was a key plank of his platform to Make America Great Again, and Trump followed through this week by announcing plans to expand the Pentagon's already enormous budget by $54 billion — at the apparent expense of other federal agencies, including the State Department.
"Hopefully we’ll never have to use it, but nobody is going to mess with us. Nobody," Trump said last week. "It will be one of the greatest military buildups in American history."
"Our military will be given the resources its brave warriors so richly deserve," Trump declared during an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, where he promised a "renewal of the American spirit."
There's growing bipartisan disquiet with Trump's initiatives, particularly proposed cuts to the U.S.'s foreign aid programs."
Some nerve, considering the rank murderousness of the Obama administration. Globalists have to undermine Trump in some other ways, so is this one of the new tactics, the Goldwater Offensive?