As i watched/listened, i caught his reference to military spending, he spoke quickly throughout, touching on lots of topics.ohio jones wrote:Things like this are best viewed as Youtube videos rather than live; you can speed it up (1.75x seemed to work fairly well), pause to do something else, and repeat if something bears repeating.temporal1 wrote: “President Trump Delivers the State of the Union Address” / White House video 1:22
I found this transition especially jarring. Though there's a paragraph break in the transcript, he barely paused for breath. A culture that cherishes innocent life might recognize that all children and adults -- American and non-American -- are made in the holy image of God, and might therefore see a bit less need for military buildup.Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. (Applause.) And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: All children — born and unborn — are made in the holy image of God.
The final part of my agenda is to protect American security. Over the last two years, we have begun to fully rebuild the United States military, with $700 billion last year and $716 billion this year.
Military spending is an expected topic for SOTUs? (i think.) Military leaders (always) have primary seating? Presidents are Commanders in Chief, it’s part of the job. This POTUS ran on a campaign of increased respect for all-things-military, and he has followed-through, from what i can discern.
Before he was elected, warnings about world wars, N Korea, Russia, etc., were widespread. i was “just waiting” for the West Coast to be bombed, i think many were. DJT was going to increase wars.
But. hmm.
this has not happened. frankly, i have stopped waiting for a bomb to hit (like i’d grown accustomed to fearing in recent years). the actual threat may be the same or worse, fwiw, my perception is, there is less threat.
There’s a thread where Robert and others discuss this dichotomy.
In my view, if military spending does NOT increase military violence, or reduces it, then, spend.
The U.S. military budget has always been beyond my comprehension, “more” is a meaningless number to me, when i can’t honestly grasp the smallest numbers anyone ever proposes.
It’s a blur of numbers.
i’m more able to grasp numbers of casualties+fatalities. altho, those can be awfully big numbers, too. i grieve all losses, whether U.S. or foreign citizens. Civilian or military.
There has been occasional talk of DJT being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This was not predicted. i hope he authentically earns it. Most of all, in God’s view.
i’ll look for that thread. (found it. see below.)
it’s got some interesting, unexpected posts about this admin’s military spending vs action.
i agree, value of life must be about conception to natural death. Not all agree.
Abortion, now infanticide, euthanasia, the death penalty, wars, homicide, are all parts of it.
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Robert wrote:Trump has raised military spending, but seems to be working towards a smaller footprint in the world. Peace through strength can easily be seen through his policies.
One thing that seems to be bringing the North Koreans to the table is what was about to be deployed to South Korea and the military sales he is making available to the Pacific countries. China was forced to force NK to negotiate since they do not want all that military might on their coast.
What few seem to know is that Trump was planning on deploying nuclear weapons to South Korea and/or Japan. This the Chinese could not accept and have now demanded NK denuclearize.
Seems his desire to have a massive military, yet disdain for nation building may actually bring more peace than all the back handed messing with other governments. Woodrow Wilson force the US out of it's isolationist policies. I see us moving in that general direction. I think this will bring more peace than what has been going on since WW1.
So, spending is up, but involvement is going down. he wants to shut down a lot of US bases in other countries. He has shown that we do not need boots on the ground to deal with rogue countries that use WMD. He destroys their abilities while avoiding lost of life. Interesting strategy. I suspect this will be 21st century war now.
