A USA today article seems to dispute this slightly. It’s a minor tweak but in the sake of fairness it completely changes the interpretation.

“The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures (and) spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” he said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place.”

Does anyone know whether he said “but spread democracy…” or “and spread democracy…”?

If the former like this post suggests, then it is indeed another notch in Trump’s belt of horrific quotes that would get any other politician at any other time in American history vilified. If the latter like USA Today is reporting then he seems to be arguing that the US military’s role is not to “spread democracy at the point of a gun.”

Even more disturbing is that if we have evidence of one Signal chat that must mean they regularly use non-official communications channels to discuss things like this. That means no formal record retention, no safeguards against export control and protection of classified information, and no pathway for transparency. These communications are entirely FOIA proof such that the American people have no way to even attempt to obtain information through legal channels from government officials.

The main point is to take advantage of Trump’s reckless misunderstanding of how the modern global financial system works to deliberately drive the United States into a recession so that American oligarchs can buy up all the collapsed pieces and force ordinary people into permanent rental of all essential services. My perspective is that RFK is a eugenicist with respect to vaccines in a, “if you die when you get sick you weren’t strong enough to be worth keeping alive anyway” sort of way. And of course there are the Curtis Yarvins of the world who want to turn the “mentally unfit” into biodiesel. Combine that with the recent own the libs joke bills about making so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” a classifiable mental illness and you can see where the writing on the wall is. The broader goal is to make it so any disagreement with Trump and Republicans is either a deportable offense or a mental illness.