Trump Demands Billions for War, Blames Victim of ICE Shooting
While Bloomberg diligently covers Trump's demand for a fifty-percent military budget increase—to $1.5 trillion—and his threats to defense contractors over 'shareholder payouts' ( the audacity of profits during wartime, eh? ), they concurrently report on protests in Minneapolis after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman. Trump called it 'self-defense,' alleging the victim was 'disorderly.' This
isn't just a grim day; it's a consistent playbook: escalate militarism abroad, then deploy and defend the same iron fist domestically. This pattern of funneling billions into the military-industrial complex while simultaneously justifying violence by state actors against its own citizens isn't new. It’s the same old tune where war is profitable, and dissent is disorderly. One might wonder, how
many trillions do we need before 'order' is finally achieved, or is the 'threat' just too lucrative to ever fully eliminate?