Brutkey

AnarchoNinaWrites
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shrugs

They, the fascist base, were never against the War on Terror. Spencer Ackerman makes this point brilliantly in his book Reign of Terror, which I strongly recommend you read, but he nails the MAGA "anti-war" zeitgeist perfectly.

AnarchoNinaWrites
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The problem wasn't the invasions and occupations, it's that you, the most powerful military in the world, could not defeat this brown, Islamic, lesser thing. They have created a "stabbing in the back" myth about it. Trump is their instrument of vengeance so they LOVE him bombing brown people.

AnarchoNinaWrites
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The closest thing you can get to an anti-war position among the fash, is that some of them are still clinging onto the idea that they oppose sending US troops to foreign shores. But given that they support bombings and missile strikes that are acts of war, and if anyone EVER punched us back in the mouth they would bay for blood - that position is nonsensical. (See: Gabbard, Tulsi for how this plays out when people interrogate the idea - she's finished in anti-imperialist circles.)

AnarchoNinaWrites
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse

tl;dr

Trump, Trumpism, and Trump cultists were never against war; they were against losing wars, and they believe we only lose wars because politicians will not "unleash" the troops to do war crimes.