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How Does Trump Resume Shipments of Arms to the Regime that Started the War?

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2025
Instead of liberty, the favorite watchword [has become] liberation. Under this banner march the tyrannies of our time, from Soviet Russia with its wars of national liberation to the kaleidoscope of coercive political programs in America which invoke the mirage of liberation. The twentieth century has been a century of liberation — of a war on freedom fought in the name of freedom. <new paragraph> The irony of America’s present course is that in the name of freedom from restraints, every source of independent power and morality is being undermined; in the name of freedom from work, want, and scarcity, the constitutional framework of liberty is being dismantled, attacked, and perverted past recognition. Beyond the irony stands the very real tragedy that in the name of freedom we are being led inexorably toward oppression and slavery.
– Bruce D. Porter

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
March 5, 2025
How Does Trump Resume Shipments of Arms to the Regime that Started the War?
Imagine if war had broken out between the United States and Soviet Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Let’s assume that two American cities — New York and Washington, D.C., and two Russian cities —Moscow and St. Petersburg — were destroyed by nuclear missiles before a peace agreement was entered into. Who would the U.S. mainstream press, the U.S. national-security establishment, and U.S. …
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