is that he wants to stage a gigantic military parade in Washington DC this summer on the order of the tasteless displays of military might once favored by the former USSR on MayDay. He apparently got this idea from a similar he either saw in Paris or on Youtube...or some damn thing.
Y'know there are still some old timers in France who can attest first hand that the single greatest military parade in French History was on Bastille Day, 1939 some six weeks before the outbreak of World War Two. Apparently it was an AWESOME display of military firepower, endless ranks of infantry marching in perfect lockstep, hundreds of heavy tanks, clouds of aircraft flying overhead and hundred of the biggest artillery pieces in Europe. Forget all that "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey" nonsense you get on Social Media, this was public & naked display of military might that shocked the Wehrmacht in Berlin and caused them to revise upwards their estimate of French rearmament in near panic.
Ten months later those same French signed a shameless armistice with Germany have been thoroughly beat on the battlefield by superior generalship & tactics.
And I write this merely to point out the obvious you can boast and pile up arms & ammunition a mile high, but without able leadership you may as well be unarmed, you are only providing stockpiles for your enemies.
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