Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
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Trump’s 82nd Airborne Fantasy: Paratrooper “Flex” in a Modern War
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March 12, 2026
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0:41Now PlayingPaul Rieckhoff lays out how Trump’s World War II-obsessed view of paratroopers and “death from above” could make the 82nd Airborne a political prop, envisioning dramatic airborne drops on abandoned airfields as a kind of flex similar to torpedoing a ship—a move that plays to cinematic nostalgia more than to the realities and risks of today’s conflict. #IranWar
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