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Wednesday, February 7, 2018

L'Enfant Square becoming ... Red Square?!

Trump’s ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade from the Washington Post
"Shows of military strength are not typical in the United States — and they don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it."
Yes, mein Fuhrer.  Stalin, Kruschev and Brezhnev would love it!  On a more serious note, those dictators loved these displays because they created the illusion of strength where the reality was systemic rot and weakness through and through.  The same is true for Trump.

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