Trump seems to have gotten away from targeting veterans' earned benefits, for now

- When I searched recent news for “Mar-a-Lago Trio” just now, the most recent thing there was from February, when a House committee started investigating. Whether that means that Trump really has ditched those despicable greedheads (though certainly no more despicable than himself), I don’t know.

- However, an effort at some privatization is continuing. It’s a gray area, of course - it’s hard to argue that an elderly veteran who lives six or eight hours from the nearest VA facility shouldn’t be able to go to a closer clinic or hospital, instead. But the expansion of that needs to be carefully monitored for abuse by profiteers, and additional efforts at privatization need to be crushed, and I don’t know that either will happen. Not as long as Republicans are in charge, anyway.

- A recent poll shows that a majority of veterans agree with a majority of Americans that US involvement in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria hasn't been worth it. How questions are worded means everything in polling like this, and for a majority of veterans to admit, even anonymously to a pollster, that sacrifices made by fellow military personnel, including those who were killed, weren’t worth it, is very notable.