Planning under way for Trump’s military parade: Dunford
The US military's top officer said Wednesday that planning is underway after President Donald Trump ordered a military parade, an unconventional demand that has drawn comparisons to sabre rattling more commonly associated with autocrats. ... consistently urged the generals to follow through on a promised return to democracy. But they have repeatedly let the poll timeline slip and maintained a tight lid on dissent, with bans on politics...
Eh. Hitler’s Germany, China, and the old Soviet state routinely had these military displays. All of the pomp is a distraction/amusement. In the modern world, when the odds of nuclear annihilation have never been higher, the displays of the traditional machines of war no longer seem relevant.