This is very similar to what I was thinking.

Tariffs reduce some trade. They do not turn all trade down to 0, and turning a reduction in trade into a war actually would make the number go negative, as now you’re spending money (and blood) on the other country, instead of getting money from them. Has to be an extreme situation to turn a (legal) business deal into a shootout.

I feel like this is giving the GOP too much credit. The “old Republican party” never wanted trans in the military, and given how small the percentage of trans people in the US, I don’t know that it will majorly impact readiness. But even if it would have, would have been an acceptable sacrifice to any time period of republicans. To pretend like the Rs of the past wouldn’t have celebrated this at any time is looking back at the past with opaque rose glasses. It is hallucinating a time that never was.