"Department of War" lmao! Well, at least Trump is honest.

They no longer care anymore about aesthetics.

The Empire is getting more and more unhinged. I don't think they would dare to declare war against the whole world, but I do worry for Latin America.
- Things are going to get difficult now that the US is militarizing the Caribbean. They are even doing invasion drills in Puerto Rico to simulate an invasion of Venezuela. If they really invade Venezuela, they are going to face another Vietnam. I have plenty of confidence that our Venezuelan comrades will defeat them just as our comrades in Vietnam did.
  Also, the good thing out of this is that it is increasingly more difficult for puppets in the region to please their population with social democracies now that the gluttonous empire is asking for more and more concessions. If things keep heading this way, we might see the dictatorships of the last century but in a weaker state which will allow for revolutions to take place. Another alternative is that the puppets will fully break with the US and their source of funding will break which will allow more radical options within a country to bloom.
  This is all my speculation from what I can see from this side of my country. Slowly but surely the conditions for a better world are appearing. Socialism is inevitable.
I also saw this on twitter and my immediate thought was “that like ratio is very worrisome.”
- Most of the not-fascists have left twitter now.
Is JDVance calling on the military to kill himself?

What even is a soft power amirite?

I love the recurring gag that euphemisms make Trump irrationally angry

I had to look this up, that is... wow. Department of Defense to Department of War. I suppose it makes sense with how this crop of reactionaries functions; part of their shtick is that "political correctness" language is bad, so I could see them viewing Defense as unnecessarily hiding the true function of the department. Like toxic masculinity thing? Obsession with projecting strength. I mean, there are political contexts in which projecting strength makes sense, but this is effectively a "quiet part out loud" thing. Yes, maybe the country that keeps waging war for decades should call its "Department of Defense" a "Department of War", but it sounds like something anti-war advocates would come up with when venting about how awful things are, not something you'd ever expect the government to do for real.

Like imagine if israel renamed the IDF to the "commit genocide force". Perhaps Trump could put a word in their ear? The added honesty would be nice.