It is profoundly important to point this out yet again: this is a war that President Trump chose, that never should have been waged, that cannot be one militarily. And now the costs are really starting to pile up, and they are not short term. President Trump appears poised to send ground troops in on a suicidal mission, which will only skyrocket the price of oil even further, deep in our involvement in the war, and do nothing to take control of the Strait from Iran. President Trump‘s response to this deepening crisis of his own making? Double down, and harm the American people even more. Now he wants to have a $500 billion one year increase in the defense budget, on top of the $200 billion supplemental that is winding its way through Congress now, while cutting help for regular Americans and refusing to pay for other things he promised, like infrastructure and healthcare. This is the evil opposite of America first. It is war first, and it is America not even in the count. How much longer are we going to remain passive to this creeping authoritarianism, and all the people in the administration who swore an oath to the US Constitution, instead give loyalty to the man, Donald J Trump at all of our expense?