PBS Frontline: The War Cabinet

I watched this documentary yesterday.

It left me angry because of all the things that I had been willing to tolerate.

There was the Syria strike in 2017 which caused my initial break with Trump in his first term. There was the assassination of General Soleimani for Israel in 2020. Heading into 2024, I thought this was bad, but I supported Trump because I judged it wasn’t as bad as Gaza and the Ukraine War under Biden. After Ukraine and Gaza, I convinced myself that I had overreacted to a few meaningless strikes.

After Trump’s second term began, I looked the other way and tolerated his war against the Houthis in Yemen. It was for Europe, not just Israel. I looked the other way when he failed to end the war in Ukraine on “Day One.” I never expected it would be that easy to persuade Putin to back off. I wasn’t willing to fully write off Trump after Operation Midnight Boomer or the attacks on Venezeulan drug boats. I didn’t write off Trump after Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire and resumed the war last March. I didn’t really care much either about Trump’s threats to annex Canada or to seize Greenland from Denmark.

The final straw for me was the two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s Day. In the span of two or three weeks, Trump launched air strikes on Nigeria and Somalia, abducted Maduro and seized control of Venezuela and was threatening Denmark over Greenland. I remember being disgusted with all the hubris after Venezuela. At that point, I knew all of these reckless actions were going to end in a disaster and that Trump’s luck would eventually run out. He began threatening Iran and sent that carrier over.

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  1. In a way I wouldn’t care if all of this foreign meddling somehow helped out the lives of the average (White) American but it only makes things worse through things like inflation and further indebting the nation.

    • No the foreigners are the problem but now the proposal of allyship seems inevitable with just from amount of the indians alone. Which I’m definitely not advocating but you can see why they’re mainstreamed on gop inc because they’re shysters with a “conservative” bent. They just disgust me personally on many levels, so an alliance with any of them make me want to puke. This is the fat peanut part of the shit sandwich I despise eating as far as voting gop. The indains are in high office there because there’s a lot now and we slept through it. So you can have the rolling the dice “tame” indians with the cokes or the extreme kill whitey bunch with pepsis. I hate em all.

    • @Ringo D, most whites in amerikwa have been laid so low they don’t even mind being plundered much less foreign usurpation in of itself, it takes the element of realizing that all of it is compounded in the form of using that usurpation, that plundering, to harm them/us, even then many whites dgaf about that either.

      What’s so outrageous about jews is they’re able to do it all & they manage to force everyone to wind up supporting their own destruction basically via slow torture. To do one’s “civic duty” & even cultivate some “livelihood” is to engage in treason, while being plundered, while being mocked.

      According to some sources, Hadrian issued the following to the legions during the apocalyptic Bar Khokhba Revolt (wrongly called the 3rd Roman Jew War, it was more like a big campaign of a larger still ongoing war raging on all around us):

      “Even if they (jews) swear to become good Roman citizens & worship Jupiter & all our Gods, kill them, if you do not want them to destroy Rome by the secret & cowardly means that they usually do.”

      One of pro whites biggest problems at present:
      Based anglo: “watch out jews, 110’s right around da cornah!”

      Jews: “we don’t care, you suckers will let us back in & we’ll be more formidable than we were previously; we only need to win once, you need to win every single time with your ‘based’ cowardly delusions”

      • Jews: “we don’t care, you suckers will let us back in ”

        Just like GL Rockwell’s parable of ‘the ducks and hens’, the dumb ducks always allow the evil hens back in. They never learn

        Every child should be taught that parable.

  2. You and I both.

    It is to weep.

    My grandfather in WW I and my father in WW II fought over the same terrain. For what?

    • So Banksteins can make bank … so to speak. Smedley Butler figured this our back in the late 1930s. Smartest Jarhead to ever live, he was.

      • Had Butler not cucked it up with his public snitching out of the alleged coup against fdr (if that was a legitimate claim, if there really was a coup being organized within the military), our world might not have wound up such a shithole as it has.

        Like woodrow wilson, fdr was one of the worst sob’s we could have had during the time of his reign. fdr’s first major act at the start of his reign as i recall was his rush to grant legitimacy unto the USSR’s cartel. He fully normalized relations with them, which was rightly interpreted by Hitler as a clear foundational move against Germany, it was a significant event that brought WWII closer sooner than it might have otherwise come had it broken out without fdr. fdr had a strange fetish of worshiping Soso aka Koba aka Stalin & fdr was a lot like trump in some big ways (ie not giving a damn about history, barely reading ever, being a status obsessed chump, etc)

        Unless someone worse would’ve replaced him, which is by no means a guarantee, Hitler probably would’ve taken down the USSR at least to the point where it’d have become a rump state, & acted as a counter balance to the British empire which might not have collapsed &/or been absorbed by what some of you regular commenters here call the “yankee empire.” Or the British empire would’ve gone down & with it the prospects for creation of a “yankee empire”

        Be careful with who/what you admire & worship….over time you become whoever & whatever that is

    • Isn’t it odd, the US had unlimited money to fight both wars with unlimited waste , a tank has zero productive use, but during the depression there wasn’t any money to build houses or shops.

      There’s always money for wars, but not enough to build super-society infrastructure.

      What sinister force controls us, only to kill and destroy , but not to build .

    • They helped destroy the German competition for the British Empire. It took most of the world to do it, but it was successful, so congratulations.

    • It is about being perpetually focused on and invested in wars with foreign countries, particularly in the Middle East, while the economy at home goes to shit and our standard of living deteriorates. The appeal of MAGA to Independent voters was doing the opposite. Instead, the status quo prevailed and got worse.

        • Either leave, or take as much fun and profit as you can while the country crumbles.

      • Worse than what you’re saying is the deliberate turning of America into a 3rd world country. Everyone knows Whites will be a minority population here in the near future. Democrats and Republicans are in total agreement that this trend must continue.

        We have been betrayed, pure and simple. All these other issues pale in comparison.

      • Trump was most popular when Zog was bombing the heathen Iranians, he went up over 50%. Since they stopped his approval went down 10 points to 43%.

        Seems like Merz was right. There wasn’t a good plan in place for the war. They stopped because they ran out of ordnance, and couldn’t raise a proxy army.

        Zog empire is actually failing before the eyes of the whole world. Now they can’t make enough missiles and other ordnance because the magnets come from China and China cut off the supply. There is no other supplier available.

        So I do think Merz was right. There was no plan except kill the leadership and Iran will surrender after the proxy armies invade. But the new leadership didn’t surrender, and there are no proxy armies.

        I saw regular gas at $3.21 in Tennessee and Georgia today. So the chicken littles were all wrong about fuel prices. Prices are going down. I got diesel at $4.42, this morning. Prices have gone down, and there is no sign of any recession yet. A recession will come soon because our Jew banker overlords are raising rates.

        It has nothing to do with the spat in Iran. The Uniparty has us 40 trillion in debt and any rates over 5% make the federal government bankrupt.

  3. YAFAHAY Party

    (“Ya Aint From Around Here, Are Ya” Party)

    No First nothing! Everyone else doesn’t even exist. Might come down to that.

    May God Save the South!

  4. Trump couldn’t care less about the Republican Party, the midterms, the economy, inflation, voters, MAGA or anything else except enriching his family and his cronies. He seems to be sick of being Mr. President now that the public has soured on him and the Iran War is dragging on. I wouldn’t be surprised if he resigns after the midterms but not before securing non-prosecution agreements from the “Justice” Dept. because of all the self-dealing he does for himself, his family and his pals.

  5. I voted for Trump three times and don’t regret it. I am not a Magatard, as you on this site would scream, but I considered the other side: Trump saved us from the sea hag Hilary Clinton. We had Biden, and again Trump saved us from a stupid sleaze like Harris.
    You see, Trump was supposed to be a Reagan redoux. He would come in like Reagan, save the economy, make money for us all and keep the woke nuts at bay, and give us the Reagan years all over. His first term was compromised by too many attacks and the GOP refusing to back him. I wrote in my diary some months before the last election that Trump would have an opportunity to get some kind of financial reforms done, begin a return to orderly social peace and hopefully lay the base for a revitalized GOP/Conservative Party…if he kept out of war. So, he chose (or the choice was forced on him by all the jew money)war, and now is quickly becoming not a Reagan, but James Buchanan, unable to control anything as forces beyond his control and abilities are moving on. He really is trapped and unable to make a plan because he has no abilities in handling foreign affairs or that Epstein monster under the bed. Trump Agonistes, eh? He’ll make a hell of a play if the right writer gets aroused, but right now, we simply sit in the back seat, watch and shrug, waiting for the head-on collision.

  6. Frontline is shitlib agitprop, hell it’s PBS. Watch their old doc about Jesus called from Jesus to Christ. Full disclosure, I’m not a practicing Christian but the Frontline shitlib interpretation of Jesus had me rolling my eyes. I watched this a decade or so ago. It’s a pretentious shitlib program. They had cheap by the number hit pieces on White “racists” in past docs. With much respect HW, you just hate dump the man.

  7. You can’t hold dump to exact promises. Almost every single president breaks campaign promises, this was expected. It’s the little things that need to be watched not the war in eurasia. Dump carries himself in a way you hate, I get it. I just ignore it, I actually enjoy that he lives rent free in the minds of our enemies. He brings out the worst in everyone, to me it’s awesome, Trump makes everyone drop their poker face. Embrace your second amendment to the fullest and subtlety too.

    • Yeah, but this is not like breaking a little campaign promise. It is more like repudiating the very foundation of “Make America Great Again” by going to war for a foreign nation, making life more expensive for everyone here and doing the exact opposite of what got you elected in the first place. Also, he destroyed his coalition in the process, sunk to 33% and ensured the Democrats would return to power and erase all his “wins,” AGAIN.

        • > And he’s laying down a red carpet for democrat victories in the autumn.

          That is likely the plan. That’s why taking the trouble to “protest” by voting for a D-jersey is futile. Neither squad gives a rat’s arse what any “voter” thinks. They both play the parts they are told to play. Trump is leading the Washington Generals into a “Custer’s Last Stand” to roll out the welcome mat for the Big Beautiful Blue Wave, which will present him untold opportunities to cuck on all manner of issues. This will likely lead to Newsome or Pritzker in 2028 which will possibly establish final one-party rule as you see now and Kalifornistan or Illnoize – where the Repukes are little more than a lingering stale fart – soon to be swallowed up in the rank turd-world stench of wog-woktardism.

    • If a man breaks his promise he is a liar and not to be trusted or given any respect. Trump is a liar and a traitor who deserves to spend the rest of his miserable live in AMX SuperMax.

  8. @Hunter Wallace,

    He never said we would never go to war again. That is insane to say such a thing. He began destroying his coalition when he adopted your soft touch immigration policies and then followed up launching a counter attack on Iran and then pissong out. There is a clear similarity between the initial hard immigration raids and the initial counter Iranian raids and then pulling back from both.

    The current failure to achieve objectives in the Persian Gulf is not the result of going to war with Iran it’s the result of stopping a war after it began and before finishing it. Same with the fight against the Democrat insurrectionists where they stopped before arresting The Minnesotta government.

    The combination of these are what is causing his collapse in polls. It’s called being weak and failing to follow up on his bellicose policy statements. We didn’t elect him to punch a couple of times and then surrender like a wusssy the second Democratic Insurrectionjsts and and Sand N@gger Imperialists failed to get knocked out. That is what is causing his collapse in the polls.

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