Republicans and Democrats on loving US wars worldwide: Tweedledum and Tweedledee

 Republicans and Democrats on loving US wars worldwide: Tweedledum and Tweedledee

There is only one issue upon which Republicans and Democrats generally agree. War.

In the first 26 years of century 21, two Republican and two Democratic presidents have followed the hallowed American mantra that war is the health of the state. Not for the people, just the leaders who practice war.

George W. Bush killed hundreds of thousands including, over 5,000 Americans, in his made up Afghan an Iraq wars. Barack Obama killed thousands turning Libya into a failed state, weaponized Islamic terrorists to destabilize Syria, and fueled Saudi Arabia’s four year war destroying Yemen. Joe Biden enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza and largely destroyed Ukraine in his senseless proxy war to weaken Russia. Donald Trump bombed 7 countries in 2025 killing thousands and is now on the cusp of igniting the most massive war this century to destroy Iran.

Presidents use war to goose the economy by destroying other lands rather than uplifting the domestic commons. War extends their control over other countries and their resources. It serves to distract from unsolved domestic problems, even deflect from personal failings and scandals. It expands the imperial presidency.

Republicans, more than Democrats, glory in starting endless wars and boasting about them, but not by much. While Trump and his war loving advisors march a massive armada off Iran and tout their ability to destroy Iran to please Israel, Democrats remain largely silent and AWOL from the urgent need to prevent what could add thousands of Americans and Israelis to the massive Iranian body count incurred should Trump attack.

Instead of calling Trump’s rush to war a deranged, criminal war that should get him prosecuted as a war criminal, Democrats confine their criticism to Trump’s refusal to have Congress declare war. Democrats basically agree with Trump’s war justification that Iran is building nuclear weapons and represents a direct threat to US national security interests. They imply that Congress would greenlight the war if Trump would only allow them to do their constitutional duty.

Bunk. Democrats have no interest whatsoever in being consulted. Their War Power Resolutions, whether to prevent Trump from attacking Venezuela to kidnap their president or launching massive bombing on Iran, are empty virtue signaling. Democrats vote for them knowing they will fail. If Trump’s war goes well, such as with kidnaping Venezuelan President Maduro, Democrats simply move on to trash his domestic policies and character flaws instead of calling out the barbarity of his war polices. If Trump’s militarism backfires, Democrats play politics, falsely charging the resulting disaster would never had occurred had they been consulted.

Did congressional Democrats offer up War Power Resolutions to stop Democrat Biden from weaponizing and cheering on Israel’s genocide in Gaza or demanding Ukraine keep fighting Russia with tens of billions in US weapons when an early peace treaty was ready for signature? Of course not. Democrats scrubbed the word genocide from their vocabulary, saying those tens of billions in genocide weapons were simply for Israeli self defense.

And that hundred seventy billion to keep the war in Ukraine raging? Democrats concurred that was to keep Putin from recreating the Soviet Union, marching into Western Europe, maybe even threatening America. That was a bipartisan fantasy to justify senseless and failed proxy war.

When Democratic President Obama was enabling the coup that ousted Russian leaning Ukrainian President Yanukovych in 2014, Democrats were all in, proclaiming Russia was powerless to respond. When Russia finally responded militarily eight years later, Democrats bought Biden’s astonishing claim ‘no US provocation here...Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade’

As we head into the midterms that may bring Democrats congressional control, Democrats will utter nary a word about Trump’s murderous foreign policies bringing death to thousands, further destroying Ukraine, continuing the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and possibly crushing Iran. Why not? Democrats know they are Tweedledum to Republicans Tweedledee when it comes to endless war…the only thing on which they agree.