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Trump wanted a military spectacle for his parade. Instead, he got a history lesson
The parade must go on, and the Army sidestepped a major crisis of image and messaging June 15, 2025 at 2:49 p.m. EDTJune 15, 2025 "The Army’s 250th birthday parade was not the grand military spectacle that many anticipated, and for that Americans can breathe a momentary, measured sigh of relief. It was a family-friendly conclusion to a celebratory day, with events on the Mall and fireworks at the end. What had been billed as an overwhelming display of military might turned out to be a linear history lesson, from the early days of revolution to the age of robotic dogs and flying drones. A narrator made sense of it all over loudspeakers and for those watching the live stream on television, with a script that rarely strayed from the Army’s disciplined sense of itself as a lethal fighting machine in the service of democracy and the Constitution. ... The president was supposedly inspired to demand a military parade, an exceptionally rare event in recent U.S. history, after seeing a very different display on Bastille Day 2017, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Given Trump’s admiration for strongman leaders in Russia and China, there was worry that the Army parade might hew to the authoritarian geometry of military spectacles in totalitarian countries, especially the absurdist mix of camp and menace favored by the regime in North Korea. ... ...People who are deeply troubled by the unprecedented federal use of the National Guard on the streets of Los Angeles were invited to hate on an unnecessary and costly (up to $45 million estimated) but mostly benign Army celebration in Washington. But the Army proved even better at message discipline, keeping attention on its history, its service and its members. One early warning sign of a shift in the Army’s allegiance will be a fraying of how it tells its own story: If it fires its historians — or attempts to coerce their compliance, as seems to be happening in other institutions, including the Smithsonian — there will be even more serious trouble ahead. But on Saturday, it kept that history in the foreground, and even the president looked bored during much of it, which isn’t surprising. The Army made it about the country, not the man. Washington Post https://archive.ph/iPaqB -
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Reuters Exclusive: US moving fighter jets to Middle East as Israel-Iran war rages
The inspectors that have said they are not enriching uranium to produce a bomb, Hasnt Tulsi gabbard just said so too? But BIBI said otherwise Do you remember those weapons inspectors that all said saddam didnt have WMDs, but they did it anyway.... can you see the similarities ? Lies and lies to push for wars -
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Why do most people NOT smoke weed even though it's legal?
Some people are like squares man. -
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Krungsri online banking discontinued from 1 October 2025
When it comes to the UK, though, you can't beat contactless for ease and simplicity in making payments up to £100 IMHO. Presumably the likeliest reason why this hasn't, unfortunately, caught on in Thailand has something to do with the annual 250 THB fee levied by Thai banks for their cards, whereas UK banks don't impose any such fee for their cards. -
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Reuters Exclusive: US moving fighter jets to Middle East as Israel-Iran war rages
US have posts all over ME, i can imagine a false fag attack by israel in oder to drag the US into a war.... wait a minute, that sounds awfully familiar🤔 -
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Is it possible to rehabilitate a bargirl back into polite society?
Well there is that. The 'girl' has to lag it out a few years until the old guy finally departs this world. Weird relationship, but I guess it works for more than a few in Thailand
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