One of the comments that I saw being attributed to Trump was a statement the effect of ‘Why were we even involved in this in the first place’, which is a very lucid and accurate observation as relates to WW1.

I watched ‘”They shall not Grow Old”, and what was most immediately interesting to me was not the footage, it was the audio commentary of the, now very elderly, initial Brit enlistees who rushed to sign up after the British enter the war.

These are comments from aged men, but they still refer to their enthusiasm to go fight people they do not know, who they have no conflict/quarrel of any sort with, and they are referred to in the commentary as the ‘dregs’ of the industrial system of the early 20th century by one commenter in the movie, if I am recalling the term correctly.

These are men who watched as their command burned through men by the thousands daily, and who kept attacking the German lines and wallowing in their own flooded trenches over the course of years. They have watched as post war Britain became flooded with aliens, and as the ruling class grew ever richer while restricting the speech of the descendants of the men who fought and died in a totally pointless conflict arranged by those leading from the rear.

WW1 would never have continued if the Generals had to suffer through the trenchfoot and rat infested static lines themselves, which is a good reason to insist that leaders go to the fronts themselves and remain at the spearhead until the conflict is concluded or they are a casualty.

I suspect that what Trump was likely trying to express was probably that it was a loosing conflict that set up future mass slaughter, compelled draftees like my own grandfather to later die agonizingly enmasse in WW2, and that this enthusiasm for war staffed by what is referred to in They shall not Grow Old as the ‘dregs’ if I am recalling correctly (no protests or outrage that I have noted), was a losing proposition for the nations and draftees (not to mention the enlistees seeking to avoid the infantry by enlisting in the Air Force or Navy before they could be drafted…)

It was much harder to get AF and Naval slots through most of WW2, largely due to memories of the flooded, rat infested trench accounts from infantry in WW1.

There is almost certainly a element of sensitivity in Trump to his own lack of service, and most of us attempt to make up for that in some way, often ill-advised, but honestly this is a short-coming in all of us, and singling out Trump makes no sense to me.

What Trump is accountable for is –

bringing Jared into the Oval Office when he shares not a single priority with the base who elected him. As a million americans file unemployment a week, and Trump is allegedly seeking reelection, Trump’s administration is focused on the UAE, a nation few Americans could find on a map, which is populated mostly by alien contract workers and which is a complete dictatorship.

Instead of the campaign promises of ending work Visa abuses, and massive immigration, his admin was almost immediately pushing for ‘dreamer’ amnesty due to Jareds spouse, and backed down only after a total rebellion of the base voter who elected him – not assisted the Republican media assets in most cases.

if Trump is re-elected, there is a dreamer amnesty for millions coming right after the election, as everyone who voted him into office in the first place has heard him advocate for since first elected, and staffed up with Jared and Ivanka. There was never a birthright citizenship executive order as promised. There was no HC plan to cover all americans as was promised, and is the norm in every first world nation but the US. There was a $1200 joke of assistance to americans to get them through nine months, as they spent down all their assets, while their was a still escalating bailout of Trillions for now completely faked speculative markets.

There were more than 600k work permits for all illegal entrants of working age who illegally jumped the US border and were rewarded with the exact permit that drew them to make to crossing by Trumps’ admin. The 2020 RNC was a horrific pander-olympics carefully designed to meet the specs of the lobbyist / Chamber of Commerce funders of the party that is now on its last leg.
Citizenship was traded for votes live on air, to 3rd world natives in their tribal garb to the glee of the outsourcing and insourcing companies who dictate how many permits they will require.

Trump waited, likely at the advise of you know who, till 3 months before his re-election attempt to even marginally limit the insourcing work permits for masses of aliens replacing american workers, (promised during the campaign) after being warned “Tim Cook wont like this”.

Trump hired masses of lobbyists and people who actively opposed his election, to staff his admin. They warmed up only once his actions catered to the Republican cheap labor system that has now destroyed their future viability and sent them in search of a new base. The focus of the Admin is foreign policy deals involving nations americans can not find on a map and dont care about during an unprecedented health, social and financial crisis.

Trump has the LUXURY of running against a slate that has NO BASE at all.. All of the Biden and Harris voters are simply voting AGAINST Trump – there is no real interest in who his opponent even is, which is a huge advantage that almost no other candidate has ever had.

Trumps’ observation that war is a losing proposition was a accurate assessment, although I think it may have been mis-stated or even mis-interpreted,
however his folly was attaching himself to the Republican cheap labor system and wannabe lackies and beneficiaries of that cheap labor scam system, which is structured to literally wipe out the lives and financials of its own base voters for a short term payoff, that has now arrived to its terminus.

There is no ‘win’ with the GOP that put on the 2020 RNC. Any victory for them would simply confirm the viability of their treason against the american worker and citizen, so the focus should be on vehicle that can serve american citizens, which the GOP cannot.