Twin celebrations of the Army’s 250th anniversary and the president’s birthday will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington.

Twin celebrations of Donald Trump’s birthday and the Army’s 250th anniversary will include as many as 25 tanks rolling through Washington in a celebration that will cost $25 million to $45 million, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

U.S. military service branches take pride in their history and anniversary celebrations, called birthdays, across the United States and on bases around the world.

The U.S. Army had long been planning to move troops and equipment to the National Mall in Washington on June 14 as part of its anniversary celebration. Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.

Two U.S. officials told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, the eventual cost could be as high as $45 million. One of them said the cost included several million dollars more than it would have without a parade.

  • Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world
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    America is a failed state, your poor die because they can’t afford hospitals, your rich steal everything they want, and use your armed forces as their toys.

    You are a disgrace, shame on all of you for not introducing this man and his friends to Madame Guillotine.

    The world see you as weak and it will take a generation to repair the dammage you have done to your reputation.

    Fught for fucks sake are you just waiting for him to die so u can get a new dictator?

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      I support the criticisms, but history will just see this as the thousandth time this has happened across the globe, and not nearly the only place it’s happening right now.

      Generally speaking revolutions like you speak of are not a feature of the modern world. They only happen when a stronger and more wealthy outside force helps drive them. That’s notably not something that can happen in the strongest and most wealthy country in the world.

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            1911 Revolution (3 C, 26 P)

            1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine (1 C, 25 P)

            A

            Algerian War (12 C, 18 P, 1 F)

            B

            Bolivarian Revolution (8 C, 25 P)

            C

            Carnation Revolution (1 C, 17 P)

            Chinese Civil War (8 C, 55 P)

            Cuban Revolution (5 C, 20 P)

            Cultural Revolution (8 C, 87 P)

            D

            Digital Revolution (5 C, 7 P)

            Dominican Civil War (1965) (1 C, 3 P)

            E

            Egyptian revolution of 1919 (6 P)

            Egyptian revolution of 1952 (1 C, 10 P)

            Ethiopian Revolution (5 P)

            G

            German Revolution of 1918–1919 (4 C, 37 P)

            Guatemalan Revolution (40 P)

            H

            Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (2 C, 34 P)

            Hungarian–Romanian War (1 C, 7 P)

            I

            Indonesian National Revolution (9 C, 109 P)

            Iranian Revolution (5 C, 48 P)

            1991 Iraqi uprisings (2 C, 13 P)

            M

            Makhnovshchina (2 C, 24 P)

            Mexican Revolution (5 C, 42 P)

            N

            Nicaraguan Revolution (3 C, 44 P)

            P

            People Power Revolution (1 C, 12 P)

            Persian Constitutional Revolution (1 C, 37 P)

            R

            Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru (1 C, 27 P)

            Revolutions of 1917–1923 (13 C, 56 P)

            Revolutions of 1989 (11 C, 27 P)

            Russian Revolution (11 C, 44 P)

            Russian Revolution of 1905 (4 C, 43 P)

            S

            Second Industrial Revolution (5 C, 5 P)

            Sexual revolution (5 C, 38 P)

            Siamese revolution of 1932 (1 C, 3 P)

            Revolutions in the Soviet Union (4 C, 4 P)

            Spanish Revolution of 1936 (1 C, 21 P)

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            17 July Revolution

            5 October 1910 revolution

            1911 Revolution

            28 May 1926 coup d’état

            1932 Trujillo uprising

            1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

            14 July Revolution

            1962 Burmese coup d’état

            1965 Algerian coup d’état

            1969 Libyan revolution

            1973 Afghan coup d’état

            1987 Tunisian coup d’état

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            Abdallah Mazandarani

            Aden Emergency

            Algerian War

            Anarchist insurrection of January 1933

            Anarchist insurrection of December 1933

            Andorran Revolution

            April Revolution

            Argentine Revolution

            Argentine Revolution of 1905

            Aster Revolution

            August Revolution

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            1990s uprising in Bahrain

            Battle of Ciucea

            Battle of Guisa

            Battle of Ismailia (1952)

            Battle of Zalău

            Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War

            Bolivian National Revolution

            Brazilian Revolution of 1930

            Brunei revolt

            C

            Carnation Revolution

            Casualties of the Iranian Revolution

            1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya

            Chechen Revolution

            Chiapas conflict

            Chinese Communist Revolution

            Communist revolution

            Constitutionalist Revolution

            Cuban Revolution

            Cultural Revolution

            Cultural Revolution in Libya

            D

            Dominican Civil War

            E

            1919 Egyptian revolution

            1952 Egyptian revolution

            Ethiopian Revolution

            F

            Jacques Sauvageot

            May 68

            Strike of ORTF technicians and journalists in May-June 1968

            G

            German revolution of 1918–1919

            Republic of Gniew

            Guatemalan Revolution

            H

            Hawaii Democratic Revolution of 1954

            Hungarian Revolution of 1956

            Hungarian–Romanian War

            I

            Indonesian National Revolution

            Iranian Revolution

            Irish revolutionary period

            J

            June 3 Resistance movement

            June 4th revolution in Ghana

            June Democratic Struggle

            June Revolution

            K

            Muhammad Kazim Khurasani

            L

            1946 La Paz riots

            List of high-ranking commanders of the Indonesian National Revolution

            Log Revolution

            M

            Makhnovshchina

            Augusto Martínez Sánchez

            Mau Mau rebellion

            Mexican Revolution

            Mirza Husayn Tehrani

            Monégasque Revolution

            Mongolian Revolution of 1990

            Mongolian Revolution of 1911

            Mongolian Revolution of 1921

            N

            National Revolution and Solidarity Day

            Nicaraguan Revolution

            Persian Constitutional Revolution

            November 1918 insurgency in Alsace–Lorraine

            O

            Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević

            P

            Peaceful Revolution

            Peasant revolution in Ethiopia

            People Power Revolution

            R

            Ramadan Revolution

            Regional Defence Council of Aragon

            Republic of Tarnobrzeg

            Revolution of the King and the People

            Revolutionary Catalonia

            Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920)

            Revolutions of 1917–1923

            1958 Rif riots

            Romanian revolution

            Ruhr uprising

            Russian Revolution

            Russian Revolution of 1905

            Rwandan Revolution

            S

            São Paulo Revolt of 1924

            Saur Revolution

            Second Revolution (Republic of China)

            Shia Islamism

            Siamese revolution of 1932

            Singing Revolution

            Spanish Revolution of 1936

            Strandzha Commune

            Stuha

            Fall of Suharto

            T

            Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai

            Tajikistani Revolution

            Tambov Rebellion

            Țigani clash

            Trois Glorieuses (1963)

            Turkish National Movement

            V

            Vue Pa Chay’s revolt

            Y

            Young Turk Revolution

            Z

            Zanzibar Revolution

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              So? How many of these happened without the outside instigation and assistance I mentioned? Copying and pasting a list of every revolution is kinda missing the point. Also, how many of these ended up with as bad or worse dictatorships?

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                Lots did and mostly in the 20th century because of America fucking about with goverments to stop socialism so might be karma

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                  Oh, it’s definitely karma. It’s just ignorant to expect Americans to overthrow the government and not end up with something even worse than we have today. That’s just not how the modern world works.