I find that this dialogue from the 1942 movie Keeper of the Flame:
Steven O’Malley: We don’t want to be slaves, do we?
Jeb Rickards: Slaves?
Steven O’Malley: That’s what they’re fighting for.
Jeb Rickards: Well, that was the Civil War, 1861-1865. There aren’t any slaves now.
Steven O’Malley: Not here, maybe. But Europe is full of them. It might be our turn next.
Jeb Rickards: How?
Steven O’Malley: Well, there are so many ways, it’d take me the rest of the day to explain it to you. But general idea is that they try to get us all confused and scared and, uh, sore at each other and then before you know it, clamp the handcuffs on us.
Jeb Rickards: hmmm. Would they put handcuffs on me?
Steven O’Malley: Not on your hands they wouldn’t. Because you would have to work for them. The chains would be on your mind and on your tongue.
Jeb Rickards: Wow!
has considerable contemporary resonance.
OT- You arent a veteran but I think this should be concerning even for those who are not. The editor and a reporter for Stars and Stripes were just fired. They were the ones that broke the Lincoln story which Hegseth claimed was false. The paper was made an independent news organization many years ago. As Eisenhower said, those in uniform deserve honest reporting.
As an aside, my nephew’s significant other does logistics for the Navy. The problem from the POV of those in logistics is they made Bahrain the only supply depot in the area. (His team opposed this.) When they got missiles the only back up plan was Diego Garcia which is too far away to be effective, especially when there is a relative shortage of tenders.
Steve