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New TDS Tactic: Trump Is Barry Goldwater


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2019 Mar 25, 11:08am   749 views  2 comments

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"BY ISHAAN THAROOR


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?

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Mar 25, 1:37pm  

Ceffer says
"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."


Peace through Strength combined with skepticism about nation building, regime change, and intervention is Militarism

But making slow progress on replacing late Cold War Military Platforms that are 30 years old, while pushing nation building, regime change, and interventionism by Obama/Clinton was all Peacey, Hopey, Changey.

Thomas Wictor has a great explanation of who and how ISIS was defeated, and why Obama was unable to do so. Basically, Trump spent the first year training Gulf State Commandos in FAC, and then 2018 was spent pinning down and obliterating ISIS using a combination of Gulf State Special Forces and their own FAC calling in US Air Support. Brilliant! Few US Troops on the ground, and it was an Arab Job. He actually listened to the people who lived there instead of MBAs and IR Master's from Harvard and Georgetown.
2   Bd6r   2019 Mar 25, 1:45pm  

Ceffer says
He repeatedly summoned the ghosts of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and George Patton

I though it was Ms. Clinton who was summoning ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt in White House...

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