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Trump’s “Department of War” Isn’t Just Rebranding. It’s a Warning

The Venezuelan strike, the banners, the executive orders — this isn’t isolationism. It’s the empire turning inward and lashing out.

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Sep 07, 2025
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This week, two things happened that would be front-page news in any functioning democracy:

  1. The United States dropped a precision-guided bomb on a small vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing eleven people off the coast of Venezuela.

  2. President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War.

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