| the-pi-guy said: Trump moves forward with plans to change Department of Defense to ‘Department of War’ "“Why are we ‘Defense’? So it used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound,â€Â he said, pining for days in which “we used to win wars all the time.†The president added, “I don’t want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense, too.â€" So good to have a de-escalation president.  Uh, I'm so tired of this.  And I feel like the worst part is that people are not going to admit they were ever wrong. They're going to act like it was inevitable, or that every administration was acting like this.  |
So many dystopian settings start with an idiot U.S. president deciding to go to war with the entire planet and finding out that the problems they had in Afghanistan and Iraq are amplified many times over when they try to take on countries like China or nation-equivalents like the EU. I started playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time right before the 2024 election, and I could easily see the genesis of a world like that.
