A few days ago, news of a comically bad security failure in the Trump administration hit the headlines. Senior Trump administration officials were holding a meeting in the Signal chat app to plan military operations in Yemen, and somehow, a reporter for the Atlantic was included in the chat.
The scandals we're told to focus on from the Left
- The Trump administration is incompetent. And?
- Vance doesn't speak highly of Europe. Who cares, though?
- Why is the government was using Signal to plan stuff? Fair question.
The talking points from the Right
- Jeffrey Goldberg is a hack and the Atlantic is a tabloid masquerading as a serious magazine. Fair enough, but that doesn't disprove these claims in the slightest.
- Our troops are brave and heroic and deserve our support. What does that have to do with anything relevant to this, though?
- Trump was doing the job Biden failed to do for 4 years! Except Biden bombed Yemen a lot. In fact, various regional powers and the US has been waging a proxy war there for a decade, with the populace subjected to blockades and bombings. And Trump campaigned on ending US involvement!
The real scandal
The US government is incapable of peace. Innocent lives will continue to be sacrificed to serve the ambitions of the politically-connected, and no one in that chat, not even Vance or Gabbard, seems to have brought that up. Oh, and there is no courage in bombing the poorest country on the Arabian peninsula.
All pretense of Constitutional authority and formal declaration of war went out the window 20+ years ago. Now they overthrow foreign leaders, bomb weddings, and blockade enemies on a whim. The American public as a whole may not even know it is happening unless something as outlandish as this leak occurs.
Our money may say, "IN GOD WE TRUST," but the government is dedicated to Mars, the god of war. Politicians may say they represent you, but you can't be allowed to know everything they do in your name.
And worst of all, how much of this has been happening under how many administrations without getting revealed until now?
