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World War II

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Second Trump Administration (2025 - present): added COLLECTIVE objective

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Second Trump Administration (2025 - present)

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Nuclear provocations

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National Security Strategy

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 While there were miscalculations as to where Japan would strike, Roosevelt did not provoke the attack on Pearl Harbor as a means of getting into war with Germany. Roosevelt's third term was dominated by World War II, in Europe and in the [[Pacific War|Pacific]]. Roosevelt slowly began re-armament in 1938 since he was facing strong isolationist sentiment from leaders like Senators [[William Borah]] and [[Robert Taft]] who supported re-armament. By 1940, it was in high gear, with bipartisan support, partly to expand and re-equip the Army and Navy and partly to become the "Arsenal of Democracy" supporting Britain, France, China and (after June 1941), the Soviet Union. As Roosevelt took a firmer stance against the [[Axis Powers]], American isolationists—including [[Charles Lindbergh]] and [[America First]]—attacked the President as an irresponsible warmonger. Unfazed by these criticisms and confident in the wisdom of his foreign policy initiatives, FDR continued his twin policies of preparedness and aid to the Allied coalition. On December 29, 1940, he delivered his Arsenal of Democracy fireside chat, in which he made the case for involvement directly to the American people, and a week later he delivered his famous [[Four Freedoms]] speech in January 1941, further laying out the case for an American defense of basic rights throughout the world. Germany and the Soviet Union had been allied in 1939–41, so American Communists demanded neutrality and no aid to Britain; they opposed FDR's reelection in 1940. Increasingly the conservative Republican business and professional community in the Northeast rallied behind Britain, and supported Roosevelt's efforts to aid the British war effort. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Roosevelt extended Lend-Lease to the Soviets.
-During 1941, Roosevelt agreed that the U.S. Navy would escort British convoys as far east as Britain and would fire upon German ships or submarines if they attacked Allied shipping within the U.S. Navy zone. Moreover, by 1941, U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were secretly ferrying British fighter planes between Britain and the Mediterranean war zones, and the British Royal Navy was receiving supply and repair assistance at American naval bases. Thus, by mid-1941, Roosevelt had committed the U.S. to the Allied side with a policy of "all aid short of war." Roosevelt met with Churchill in August 1941, to write the [[Atlantic Charter]] in what was to be the first of several wartime conferences. The War Department's "Victory Program," provided the President with the estimates necessary for the total mobilization of manpower, industry, and logistics to defeat Germany and Japan.<ref>Mark Skinner Watson, ''Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations,'' (1950), 331-366 at [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/csppp/ch11.htm online]</ref> The program also planned to dramatically increase aid to the Allied nations and to have ten million men in arms, half of whom would be ready for deployment abroad in 1943. Roosevelt was firmly committed to the Allied cause.
+During 1941, Roosevelt agreed that the U.S. Navy would escort British convoys as far east as Britain and would fire upon German ships or submarines if they attacked Allied shipping within the U.S. Navy zone. Moreover, by 1941, U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were secretly ferrying British fighter planes between Britain and the Mediterranean war zones, and the British Royal Navy was receiving supply and repair assistance at American naval bases. Thus, by mid-1941, Roosevelt had committed the U.S. to the Allied side with a policy of "all aid short of war." Roosevelt met with Churchill in August 1941, to write the [[Atlantic Charter]] in what was to be the first of several wartime conferences. The [[War Department]]'s "Victory Program," provided the President with the estimates necessary for the total [[mobilization]] of manpower, [[industry]], and [[logistics]] to defeat [[Germany]] and [[Japan]].<ref>Mark Skinner Watson, ''Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations,'' (1950), 331-366 at [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/csppp/ch11.htm online]</ref> The program also planned to dramatically increase aid to the Allied nations and to have ten million men in arms, half of whom would be ready for deployment abroad in 1943. Roosevelt was firmly committed to the Allied cause.
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 ===Second Trump Administration (2025 - present)===
-[[File:Screenshot-2026-04-25-094022-768x908.png|right|300px|thumb|There was no "imminent threat" against the United States when it initiated [[war of aggression]] on [[Iran]] in February 2026. (It has precedent attacking Iraq to save [[Kuwait]] from [[Saddam Hussein]] - There it was solely to save Kuwait ally VS Epic Fury which has a COLLECTIVE defense objective).]]
+[[File:Screenshot-2026-04-25-094022-768x908.png|right|300px|thumb|There was no "imminent threat" against the United States when it initiated [[war of aggression]] on [[Iran]] in February 2026. (It has precedent attacking Iraq [[Operation Desert Storm]] to save [[Kuwait]] from [[Saddam Hussein]] - There it was solely to save Kuwait VS '''Epic Fury''' which has a COLLECTIVE defense objective).]]
 [[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers.  President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] should no longer carry.  For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse.  His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them.

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 ===Second Trump Administration (2025 - present)===
-[[File:Screenshot-2026-04-25-094022-768x908.png|right|300px|thumb|There was no "imminent threat" against the United States when it initiated [[war of aggression]] on [[Iran]] in February 2026. (It has precedent attacking Iraq to save [Kuwait]] from [[Saddam Hussein]] - There it was solely to save Kuwait ally VS Epic Fury which has a COLLECTIVE defense objective).]]
+[[File:Screenshot-2026-04-25-094022-768x908.png|right|300px|thumb|There was no "imminent threat" against the United States when it initiated [[war of aggression]] on [[Iran]] in February 2026. (It has precedent attacking Iraq to save [[Kuwait]] from [[Saddam Hussein]] - There it was solely to save Kuwait ally VS Epic Fury which has a COLLECTIVE defense objective).]]
 [[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers.  President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] should no longer carry.  For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse.  His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them.

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-[[File:Screenshot-2026-04-25-094022-768x908.png|right|300px|thumb|There was no "imminent threat" against the United States when it initiated an unprovoked [[war of aggression]] on [[Iran]] in February 2026.]]
+[[File:Screenshot-2026-04-25-094022-768x908.png|right|300px|thumb|There was no "imminent threat" against the United States when it initiated [[war of aggression]] on [[Iran]] in February 2026. (It has precedent attacking Iraq to save [Kuwait]] from [[Saddam Hussein]] - There it was solely to save Kuwait ally VS Epic Fury which has a COLLECTIVE defense objective).]]
 [[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers.  President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] should no longer carry.  For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse.  His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them.

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+[[File:Screenshot-2026-04-25-094022-768x908.png|right|300px|thumb|There was no "imminent threat" against the United States when it initiated an unprovoked [[war of aggression]] on [[Iran]] in February 2026.]]
 [[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers.  President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] should no longer carry.  For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse.  His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them.

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	[[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers. President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.\|Washington]] should no longer carry. For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse. His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism\|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance\|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them.		[[President Donald J. Trump]]'s radical [[foreign policy]] moves stunned observers. President Trump openly dismissed [[Ukraine]], reducing it to a "burden" that [[Washington, D.C.\|Washington]] should no longer carry. For Trump, [[Western Europe]] is a [[parasite]] living off American largesse. His [[rhetoric]], infused with anti-[[elitism\|elitist]] [[populism]], turned the usual [[Western alliance\|Western]] mantras of [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] against the very [[nation]]s that long championed them.

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	After passing unanimously in the Lower House, the bill to de-ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CBTB) was approved by the Upper House by 156 votes to zero. The approved legislation was sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his signature.		After passing unanimously in the Lower House, the bill to de-ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CBTB) was approved by the Upper House by 156 votes to zero. The approved legislation was sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his signature.
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		+	In November 2024, the head of plans for Strategic Command, Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan, told the [[Washington, DC]] [[think-tank]] [[CSIS]] that the [[Biden regime]] was ready to fight and win a nuclear exchange with [[Russia]], and in early December 2024 the [[CIA]] under [[Bill Burns]], responding to an announcement by the regime that it would greenlight the use by the [[Kyiv regime]] of [[ATACMS]] [[missile]]s to strike targets inside Russia, briefed members of [[Congress]] that there was a greater than 50% chance there would be a [[nuclear war]] between Russia and the [[US]] before years end.

	====Sino-Russian Entente====		====Sino-Russian Entente====

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 *Fortress America is back.
-The [[NATO proxy war in Ukraine]] had the perverse effect of increasing [[Europe]]'s, especially [[Germany]]'s, external dependencies for [[energy]] and other vital [[import]]. By 2025 German chemical companies were building some of the world's largest processing plants in [[China]], using Russian gas that they could not obtain in Europe due to [[Russian sanctions]]. The Trump Administration found itself at odds with [[EU]] & [[UK]] leaders who held unrealistic expectations for the [[proxy war]] perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of [[democracy]] to suppress opposition. A large European majority of the [[population]] wanted [[peace]], yet that desire was not translated into [[policy]], in large measure because of those European [[government]]s' [[rigged election]]s and [[subversion]] of democratic processes. This became [[strategic]]ally important to the [[United States]] precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis. One of the priorities laid out by the [[NSS25]] is "Ending the perception, and preventing the [[reality]], of [[NATO]] as a perpetually expanding alliance."
+The [[NATO proxy war in Ukraine]] had the perverse effect of increasing [[Europe]]'s, especially [[Germany]]'s, external dependencies for [[energy]] and other vital [[import]]. By 2025 German chemical companies were building some of the world's largest processing plants in [[China]], using Russian gas that they could not obtain in Europe due to [[Russian sanctions]]. The Trump Administration found itself at odds with [[EU]] & [[UK]] leaders who held unrealistic expectations for the [[proxy war]] perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of [[democracy]] to suppress [[opposition (political)|opposition]]. A large European majority of the [[population]] wanted [[peace]], yet that desire was not translated into [[policy]], in large measure because of those European [[government]]s' [[rigged election]]s and [[subversion]] of democratic processes. This became [[strategic]]ally important to the [[United States]] precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis. One of the priorities laid out by the [[NSS25]] is "Ending the perception, and preventing the [[reality]], of [[NATO]] as a perpetually expanding alliance."
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