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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: TRUMP: Military Never Fought to Win
Date: 09/06/25 6:51 PM
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Trumpedo said that the name, which was changed by president Harry Truman in 1949 to combine all of branches of the military, had been changed because the country “decided to go woke.”

As Trump, and the SecWar are saying, they want to build a "war" culture. Remember how Bush #43 was trying to do the same thing? Remember the media nattering about the "terror threat level" all the time? Remember how everyone in the military, had to wear camo, even if they were thousands of miles from anything resembling combat? Staff at Walter Reed hospital was wearing camo, as if they were staffing an aid station in Fallujah. Even the Navy changed work uniforms to the "blueberry" camo, as if a 100,000 ton carrier would be rendered invisible, by the crewmen inside wearing camo.

Trump isn't "isolationist". He is just moving the focus of US military intervention to the western hemisphere. He has gone quiet, recently, about invading Panama and Greenland...because knocking over Venezuela would be much more profitable. He'll probably demand 51% of the stock in PDVSA as "reparations" for the cost of invading the country and installing a quisling.

Trump says Venezuelan jets will be shot down if they endanger US ships

Trump told his general, standing beside him, that he could do anything he wanted if the situation escalated.


BBC: Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be 'shot down' if they endanger US ships

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