The Department of War's aggressive name, while doing nothing to change the actual state of the U.S. military, is nothing more than “pretense of power” theatrics.
This isn't a moment for partisanship. It's also not a moment for division. And it’s certainly not a moment to cherry-pick which incidents of political violence count and which do not.
[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.