larry johnson speaks about the orange man and his opinion of his actions, and cigarette boats;

My friend, Alex Krainer, holds a more benign view of Donald Trump than do I. I hope Alex is correct in his view that Trump actually has a strategy and is genuinely pursuing a path that will end the war in Ukraine. But I generally ignore what Donald Trump says and I focus instead on what he does. Today, for example, he changed the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. WTF!!! What happened to the concept that the best offense is a good defense? I really don’t think that Trump and his team thought this move through. Consider the internet interface… Instead of dod.gov, we now have war.gov. What kind of message is that sending to the world?

While Trump is obsessed with being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, I think his decision to christen the Department of Defense as the Department of War pretty much ensures he’ll never get that prize. I suppose there is a bright side to this… At least the United States is now being honest about the activity of our so-called Department of Defense since the Korean War, because the name change more accurately defines what US military policy has been for the last 65 years. We waged war in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Serbia, Libya, Panama and Ukraine.............more.........