H/T VDare's Former Agent, <URL:https://vdare.com/posts/dick-durbin-s-american-foreign-legion-this-is-what-the-fall-of-rome-looked-like>
| Apparently, Senator Dick Durbin is proposing recruiting illegal
| aliens to fill the ranks of our military.
|
| What could possibly go wrong? It's not like the Roman Empire didn't
| go down that road before with predictable results.
|
| Our military has already been doing that for years. Senator Dick
| wants to expand it.

see Nathan Stone for The Federalist on whether Susie Wiles has asked
legacy American proles who might be convinced to vote for Donald Trump
why they won't let their sons and daughters enlist: <URL:https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/11/democrats-propose-solving-their-military-recruitment-crisis-with-illegal-aliens/>
| It is not as if this scenario has never been played out before
| either. The Founding Fathers were quite clear that the Roman
| Republic was one of their chief models and sources of inspiration
| for the new nation, but Durbin's enthusiasm for illegal recruits
| smacks of the late Roman Empire. As the empire began to wither,
| emperors like Diocletian and Constantine were forced to look
| elsewhere for recruits. Foreign mercenaries were not strangers in
| the Roman legions, but the difference was that, in the past, they
| had been axillary forces and shock troops. But then, more and more
| Germanic barbarians had replaced Roman citizens as soldiers.

Will Trump nominate Mark Esper to succeed Lloyd Austin at Defense.GOV
and will Mitch McConnell consent?
John
groenveld@acm.org
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states in the country is to double down on your endorsement, you're
putting Trump before your state and your country." - Pedro Gonzalez <URL:https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1649614254608138240>

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