Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 9
Tonight, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media: “President Trump ordered action—and the Department of War is delivering. Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR.” “[T]his mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood—and we will protect it.”
It appears that the administration is considering attacking another country under the pretext of stopping drug trafficking, in an echo of nineteenth-century imperial power that mimics the territorial ambitions of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
Political strategist Simon Rosenberg commented: “If Trump wags the dog in Venezuela it is going to do enormous damage to his already degraded brand here in the US. Zero support for this in the public. Will be seen for what it is—[a] transparent attempt to rescue his flailing Presidency.”
——Heather Cox Richardson
No. of Recommendations: 0
Heather Cox Richardson is not a historian, she's a political hack.
In fact, to first claim that Trump's actions mimic "19th century imperialism," but then (inevitably) compare those same actions to "Putin" shows just how much of a hack she is. Does she even realize that this is the 21st Century, and Putin didn't exist in the 19th Century?
If she was a real historian, she could have provided a more apt comparison, with a real 19th Century conflict, i.e. the Barbary Wars.
But again, she's not a legitimate historian.
No. of Recommendations: 3
A spear is much more manly and phallic than a cross.
No. of Recommendations: 2
[T]his mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood—and we will protect it.”
How many lies in that sentence...wow.
Hegseth just wants to play war. We have a juvenile fool in charge of the worlds most powerful military.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Hegseth just wants to play war. We have a juvenile fool in charge of the worlds most powerful military.
His mission is to launch Weapons of Mass Distraction.
