Donald Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by thorough dehumanization and staggering destruction. What type of war would be politically incorrect enough for Trump?

On Sunday, President Donald Trump delivered a speech on board the USS George H. W. Bush to mark the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the US Navy. A lot of it was his usual incoherent mixture of hawkish posturing and attempts to portray himself as a peace president. Out of one side of his mouth, he bragged about having supposedly ended seven wars. (He didn’t list the seven.) Out of the other side, he bragged about his administration’s mounting military aggression against Venezuela.

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