Donald Trump's offense against Smithsonisian reached a dramatic new level last week, with the president declaring the institution and its museum “out of control.” To help raise his point of view, the president added that the Smithsonian History Museum focused on “how bad slavery is.”
Shortly thereafter, the White House confirmed that administration officials also hope to target other museums as part of Trump's broader efforts. “He will start with the Smithsonian and then start from there,” a spokesperson told NBC News.
While the president's propaganda on Americans to know and understand history clearly reflects his authoritarian agenda, development also has a degree of irony, because if anyone would benefit from a great time from the Museum of History, it is Trump and his team.
For example, the President talked about the US military “carrying the air” during the Revolutionary War and taking over the “aircraft” even though the plane did not exist at the time. Later he said: “If you watch the end of the Civil War in the 1800s, it was a very turbulent period. Is it 1869 that you are going to spend the ending?
His vice president is not good. HuffPost points out:
Vice President JD Vance groped some textbook facts about world history while talking about foreign policy on Sunday’s “Meet the Media”. In the interview, Yale Law School alumni defended President Donald Trump's decision, demanding that Russia reach the terms of a peace agreement with Ukraine, claiming that all wars end in compromise.
Kristen Welker of NBC News asked the Ohio Republican an important question: “If Russia is allowed to retain any territory it illegally occupied, what message will it send to China? Will it give China a green light to invade Taiwan? Will it give Russia a green light to invade other European countries, which one is your European ally?”
Instead of answering the question directly, Vance questioned the premise.
“Kristen, that's how the war finally resolved,” he said. “If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they ended in some kind of negotiation.”
no. If a person actually goes back and evaluates every major conflict in human history, they end primarily with a force of conquering or repelling hostile forces.
Especially with regard to World War II, the United States and its allies gave two choices of axial power: death or unconditional surrender. The negotiated settlement was not on the table, and the United States never considered allowing Germany or Japan to retain its illegally occupied territory.
When Germany collapsed, Europe resolved global conflicts, and Adolf Hitler committed suicide, surrendering after Japan's U.S. bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Eighty years later, in Europe's biggest conflict since the end of World War II, Russia doesn't have to surrenderit only needs leave Its neighbors will end the conflict immediately.
As for how and why Vance made a mistake, the vice president may be confused. He also has the potential to lay the foundation for White House policy, which would reward the Russian invasion as if it were just “how the war will be resolved in the end.”