Giving quarter to the enemy is what these people appear to be doing. They are leaving this nation defenseless. And based off the budget congress just passed they appear to be funding a new war within the US, one filled with sick horror and inhumanity.
And the civilian National Security Council—the apparatus to share intelligence with the executive—is in utter miserable shambles, with the chief executive basically disinterested in hearing intel briefings & most of the experts driven out. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/02/trumps-nat...
There is a shortage of courageous people. Military analysts and generals have sounded the alarm about serious gaps in capability, but they are all __retired__. The maga slogan is apparently just enough for media and public. The US doesn't build ships and is lacking the industrial capacity to sustain a prolonged war.
The Biden program's to onshore certain industries seemed to work, but those programs have been thrown in the toilet. The tariff scams have scared people to invest and expand production in the US.
It is one more example of how the concept "nation" or "common good" is meaningless for the 0,01%. You burn the village for personal profit. When the host dies they move to the next victim to parasite on, and so on.
Autocracies can't sustain themself, they will eventually collapse because without freedom sustainable and efficient productivity is not possible in the long term. It is why the Putin clan needs to parasite on other countries (Transnistria, Georgia, Ukraine etc). And this is why the Republicans are talking about annexing other countries.
Actively shutting down investigations into the all but total compromise of US communication networks, Salt Typhoon. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/salt-typhoon-hack-keeps-... https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/20/donald-trump-is-turning-...
Cutting DHS intelligence funding 75% https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dhs-intelligence-arm-to-cut...
Giving quarter to the enemy is what these people appear to be doing. They are leaving this nation defenseless. And based off the budget congress just passed they appear to be funding a new war within the US, one filled with sick horror and inhumanity.