There aren’t any peace activists in Trump’s cabinet, with the possible exception of Tulsi Gabbard. From Bill Astore at bracingviews.substack.com:
Trump and the war hawks. Or war sluts. Or war pigs. I thought about all three of these. Then I thought: Why insult hawks, sluts, or pigs?
Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, seeing enemies everywhere while wearing their red power ties
Donald Trump is forming his cabinet by rounding up the usual warmongers. In 2016, he gathered the generals, men like James Mattis and John Kelly. This time around, he’s tapping people like Marco Rubio. “Little Marco” as Secretary of State, a man who’s rarely met a war he didn’t like. For Secretary of Defense he’s nominated Pete Hegseth, whose main concern seems to be waging a war on “woke” generals. One thing is certain: Rubio and Hegseth won’t challenge the military-industrial complex. They will feed it … and feed it again.
Other nominations include Elise Stefanik, a rabid Zionist, as UN ambassador, along with Mike Huckabee, a pro-Israel evangelical who believes in the “end times,” as U.S. ambassador to Israel. Trump may trump Biden as being more slavishly pro-Israel. “Bombs for Bibi to kill babies” should be their motto.
Kristi Noem, who shot and killed her own dog because she couldn’t train it, will run Homeland Security. (If you work for DHS, it might be a good idea to watch your back, or at least to avoid being alone with Noem at a gravel pit.) Mike Waltz will be the National Security Advisor; here’s how Caitlin Johnstone describes him:
Waltz is a warmongering freak. Journalist Michael Tracey has been filling up his Twitter page since the announcement with examples of Waltz’s insane hawkishness, including his support for letting Ukraine use US weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, criticizing Biden for not escalating aggressively enough in Ukraine, advocating bombing Iran, opposing the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and naming Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and Venezuela as “on the march” against the United States toward global conflict. The mainstream press are calling Waltz a “China hawk”, but from the look of things he’s a war-horny hawk toward all the official enemies of the United States.
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“Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
“Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
Reading about Hegseth mad about Ukraine not being armed fast enough and calling Putin a WAR criminal, old comments not current.
If we had a press that would be something to ask about if he still thinks that way about SMO.
He is a veteran and purging commies is always a good thing, Alinsky works for us now.
Meanwhile RF says the former West is playing with fire and any missile strike deep into their territory will result in a response.
This as UK/Germanystan ponder deep strikes.
Joe Joe Brandon will gift one last round of shekels and gear?
Probably already has while one claims that the Bolsheviki Enemedia are setting the table for Zelensky’s departure.
Comrade kommissar Barnie Sandlers of the glorious peoples republic of Vermont has never voted against any WAR and had MIC protestors arrested for a hawk from the CPUSA (D) side of the UNI club that we aren’t in.
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