A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The declination is a rebuke of the administration’s efforts to paint the six lawmakers — all of whom served in either the military or intelligence services — as dangerously undermining the president’s authority as commander in chief.
Americans still believe that they live in a democratic, humane and civilized society. That the USA is the embodiment of freedom, justice, democracy. Some believe that it was so but now Trump has changed it.
The truth is that the USA has never been that, Trump simply does not pretend like his predecessors. For example, in 1941 Japan bombed a US military base and destroyed warships. What did the USA do? First they made camps and imprisoned all the Japanese (including women and children) who lived in the USA who had nothing to do with the Japanese attack. They were Japanese and that was their sin. Then without a shred of remorse they dropped two nuclear bombs on cities where civilians (children) live and killed 200,000 to 300,000 people, almost all civilians, women, children. Those crimes against humanity were not committed by Trump but by Roosevelt and Truman.
The problem in the US is much deeper than Trump/MAGA vs. Liberals/Woke and is not from now or 5-10 years ago. Those who think it can’t get any worse are wrong. There will be rigged elections, banned opposition, imprisonment of all who speak out against Trump/MAGA. The US will become Russia, a state controlled by oligarchs. Someone will think that it’s lucky that Trump is 79 years old and can’t last long, but if they manage to rig/annul the next elections this (and even worse) will last at least another 20 years regardless of whether Trump is in power or not, there is always a successor.
Every dictator came to power through elections (Mussolini, Hitler, Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chávez, …), not one of them gave up power through elections. They will do anything to stay in power, absolutely anything, there is no law/morality that would stop them.
While I get your point I feel like using the nukes as an example is bad. Mostly because it was the least bad option for dealing with Japan during WW2, since it’s almost guaranteed that leaving them be after pushing them out of the mainland would be resulted in them trying again later, and doing an invasion of the Japanese home islands would’ve been a butchery comparable to few others. Japan was unlikely to surrender at all unless total annihilation was guaranteed, that’s the promise of the nukes one to show off another to show the promise.
Fact of the matter is the war on the Pacific was a shit show. For example Japanese POWs were rather rare because they had a nasty tendency towards faking surrender, injury, or death and then trying to kill medics or GIs, so they were simply killed because it was the most likely end result regardless. Another factor is that Japanese civilians on newly occupied islands had a tendency of killing themselves or turning into guerrilla. And then finally the US military hasn’t produced purple heart metals since WW2 since they produced so many in anticipation of an invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Point is while using the imprisonment of Japanese Americans is a prime example of the feds fucking up and doing horrific shit. The nuking of Japan itself isn’t, it was a way of getting the Japanese to just stop. They probably would’ve wiped themselves out rather than surrender without the nukes or at the very least bleed themselves down pretty thoroughly. The Japanese Imperial Cult was fucking psychotic and really needs to be factored in before you talk about anything done during WW2 against the Japanese.
Good points. After reading Flyboys, my perspective on the situation in the Pacific and toward wartime Japan shifted dramatically.
Still wish there could have been a viable alternative to targeting civilians, of any nation.
Sadly not every war can be the Western front of WW1 where civilians basically didn’t factor in.
This is such a stupid take. Every time I hear someone say we HAD to drop nuclear bombs on them to make them stop. Its such horse shit. It was a show of force to show the USSR what the U.S. was capable of. Nothing more.