It's been 15 years since I made my third and final trip to Iraq. There's a 'feel old' moment for you.

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□ [“Trump to Ban Transgender Service Members and Eliminate DEI Programs in the Military"]

The win for the day.  You'd think this would be something he could have done a weeks ago, but the military does have a tendency to put its senior leaders through boring meetings to see things from all sides.  So everybody had to show up to meetings for a week and be asked 'anybody object to this?'  No one did, except in the meetings where there was a transgender.  Since they were probably promoted to senior leadership ASAP, they spoke up in the meetings and everyone else told them 'we don't want you.'  So that took a few days.

Getting rid of the DEI is probably harder.  Maybe, I'm certainly not informed of how the military works that way.  A lot of stuff could be immediately cancelled, but the rest would need to be slowly cut out.  There are aspects where very old rules need to be followed and there's times where the guy in charge changes his mind so that's that.  Not sure how much DEI applies to which side.  But the order is given so compliance is expected.

How will this apply to the contractors?  They have to meet certain military requirement so again, a lot of companies will have to drop the DEI programs if they want to keep their contract, but there might be ways where it's not relevant.  We'll probably see which companies are there for the military and which ones have been taken over by the *woke.*

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□ [“LA Mayor Caves to Trump’s Demands After Public Rebuke — Parts of Palisades Set for Immediate Reopening"]

Maybe this is another win for the day.  This DEI hire was just keeping people trapped because she could.  They can't do anything with their homes because they're burnt down but they're stuck paying for hotels or living in their cars because she won't let them leave.  Trump pointed out that the fire had already burned down everything it could burn so this was pointless. It took a few days but she went along with it.

There is no chance of California becoming a red state, but a lot of people there have to be wondering why Democrats in charge can't do anything, but this new Republican guy stops by for a few hours and provides help and solutions.  The same thing is happening over in North Carolina and the other hurricane-ravaged zones.  Trump visited for a couple hours and suddenly the military is there to help, as is the federal government.  Democrats had all these months and provided nothing.

This is obviously naive optimism, but this could be the start of really pushing the leftwing back.  Not to oblivion, they're a natural part of humanity's darker side and will never be eliminated, but just in showing how real competence works in the world, Trump could be inspiring a couple generations of positivity, which is what America has always been about.

We can see this with the leftists getting nutty.  It might take a few years to work this out, but they were all hit but the Trump victory in ways they didn't expect.  Especially given how hard they'd worked to get rid of that with the 2020 election stolen.  And what have they got to show for it other than their homes burning down?

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□ [“Honduran President Calls For 'Urgent Meeting' of All Latin American and Caribbean Heads of State"]

This is in response to the quick humiliation of Colombia's leader.  I'm ambivalent on who this could work out best for.  Trump could have the chance to do the same thing to all of them, a larger victory against those who are sending the illegal immigrants to us in the first place.  There's also a legitimate question of how many of these nations are actually countries with their own people, which the leftist dictators would rather ignore so they can stay in power.

That said, these rulers might figure out how to make unity work.  They'd certainly be calling the UN, China and the EU for help.  So my main worry is that they could help strengthen the self-appointed 'new world order' and provide a convenient way to attack us.  The enemy already has ways to attack us, but every little bit helps.

I continue to hope that Trump will continue to inspire nationalism south of the border.  Nations like Brazil already have a lot of people who want to get rid of these tyrants, there are probably others out there too.  One of the worries about Trump is that he's just going to start a different version of the UN which will sooner-or-later be as bad as the last one.

The 'world government' concept has been around for a few centuries so it's not going away.  Even Trump can't get it right and I'm worried that he's going to try, just because it's the most obvious option.  He's got the solutions, get other countries to agree with him, there you go.  Either way, we have to deal with Latin and South America somehow.

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□ [“Russian Forces Conquer Large Donetsk Stronghold of Velikaya Novosyolka – Crumbling Ukrainian Defenses Put Up Limited Resistance"]

Amazing how a war halfway around the world has dropped out of people's attention.  It's like Orange Man is suddenly a bigger and more immediate threat so there's no point getting into problems other countries have which don't affect us in the slightest.  And all it took was three years and zillions of deaths to realize that.

The State Department has stopped funding Ukraine's military.  Maybe they're just following Germany which completely stopped money over a week ago, but there is a sudden realization that paying for wars isn't a good idea.  Been a while since we've heard any propaganda about how Russia's military was totally destroyed and I'm not sure we've ever heard much about them losing territory.  Stepping back to move in a different direction maybe, but they keep expanding and Ukraine keeps shrinking.

Trump is calling for the war to stop and is scheduling a discussion with Putin.  As always, I don't think that's a good idea but he's Trump, he's going to do it anyway.  I might actually be a little wary that the war will suddenly stop, Russia will pick up its stuff and go home.  I don't see how that would be possible at this point so if it happens, expect something else is going on behind closed doors.

Something else going on, Poland and Hungary are arguing.  This must be connected to Russia/Ukraine just because they're right next to Russia/Ukraine, although maybe it's just a second-order effect.  Being part of NATO and the EU in this situation gives them reasons to turn against each other.  With everything else going on, they can all find something else to fight about.

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