10 bucks says Hegseth meant to meet with a couple generals, but because he was drunk he accidentally sent the orders to every general and admiral in the military.
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Can anyone added accidentally to the signal group brief us on what happened in the meeting please.
There is no way this is a good thing. Summoning a single general to a meeting without giving any context is not a thing that is done. Summoning all of them and not stating the meeting purpose or providing read ahead charts or pre-briefs... that's incredibly ominous.
I'm hoping it is only him directing them to call it Dept of War (DoW) on all official comms instead of DoD.
Its also ridiculously irresponsible.
There is a lot of discussion to be had over the actual value of a general in modern warfare (where individual soldiers have tactical value and so much decision making happens at the company or even squad level). But no discussion is required to say what a ridiculously juicy target "every high ranking military official" is and the massive damage to morale and organization that would ensue.
Yeah that’s a lot of HVT in one area.
I wouldn’t be super shocked if this turns into loyalty pledge-a-palooza.
That's my guess as well. "Swear a blood oath to King Trump personally or you're fired right now".
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Well we had the horst wessel shooting time for night of the long knives?
More like the way Hitler had all the generals summoned in 1935 to take an oath to him personally instead of to the Weimar Republic.
I remember hearing a story about some country's leader started gathering their legislators and then claimed he had uncovered a list of names conspiring against him, then announced the names one by one, got the soldiers to lead them to a hallway, and executed them, then the remainder of them pledge loyalty to the leader.
Something like that, forgot what country it was. But this sounds so familiar. Uncanny parallel.
A video of that event exists. It was Saddam Hussein.
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well the pizza index was high last night. that market's just opening so keep an eye
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We're going to war with somebody.
And all the times I've heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.
But, I could be wrong. I always admit that.
And all the times I've heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.
It's always projection. 100% of the time
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My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant. Everybody is being called for two reasons; that’s how the corpo’s do layoffs now and, more importantly, as of right now the admin has zero fucking clue which 1/4 they are going to fire yet. That list is going to have more day of changes than a Vince McMahon era PPV.
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Smells like a purge.
The kind where they'll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.
I mean... the US military is supposed to be anti fascist, and if you're a general you've been there longer than just trumps term, so really they are all anti fascists.
Antifa is a terrorist organization now, so he'll round em all up, charge them with treason, and install new generals who've never served in the military before.
The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man. Which is what my air force friends have been telling me - don't worry, the forces won't go fascist. Trump apparently came to the same conclusion and is reducing their forces while he massively ramps up ICE, his new domestic army that DOES swear allegiance to him.
Which seems like it has implications but I'm no analyst.
The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man.
Technically, all of the admin did the same pledge and we see how that's going.
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“Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”
This seems like exactly the type of gathering you want to avoid in a world where hypersonic missiles probably* exist.
* bring on the pedantry over what actually defines a hypersonic missile
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They are preparing the Military on the fight on Antifa.
Aka: Martial Law
They are preparing the Military on the fight on Antifa
I suspect they are informing the generals they are about to begin an invasion of (take your pick) country.
No. This is something else. If it was an invasion plan there would be the usual high level meetings at the Pentagon and Whitehouse. Then orders would be issued via the usual secured communication.
The only reason to bring all of them in is a for a political purity test and or mass firing.
I mean, theoretically, shouldn't a literal room full of top Generals be able to organize and have all their bosses placed under Military Arrest for issuing corrupt orders? Our soldiers are not supposed to obey corrupt orders.
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Im calling it. Fight antifa which is anyone the administration says it is or anyone posting or demostrating against facism. I carry signs against facism regularly. no kings anyone?
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If I were a general I'd be worried about some sort of culling a la Saddam.
Saddam was a hell of a lot more competent than this bunch. I actually consider it a significant blessing that they want to jump us over the cliff and into fascism, but they're in a Pinto that needs new tires, and they seem unaware enough that they are trying to make it work anyway.
Not to say it definitely won't work, I am glad for people getting out and raising hell about it. But it is a blessing that they are so stupid.
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That is seriously ominous
This is 100% wishful thinking, but perhaps they're taking Russia seriously.
Fuck, I couldn't even muster the cope to think this might be true.
If they were taking Russia seriously, they wouldn’t consolidate the command of the entire US military into one base in Virginia.
Russia wouldn’t even need a nuke at that point. Just conventional bombs on a couple ICBMs or SBMs would effectively decapitate the United States government. Hell, just a few spies with a Uhual full of explosives could do it without risking retaliatory launches.
The idiot just rang the dinner bell for any foreign government that wants to cripple the United States. This order alone should be a fireable offense on the grounds that it blatantly weakens national security.
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I mean you don't really call in people from abroad to say "hey, war time" you call in people to tell them they're no longer needed and the others who are also called in get told about the "awesome" restructuring that's going on.
"Ok everyone, we're here for a very important reason. Trump is pouty over his UN incident and we need to throw him a proper dictator worship party. I'm going to need all of you in DC pronto so we can really give those boots a good kissing. It's for The Good Of the Country™©®."
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Trump is declaring war on the UN because of the escalator, starting the stupidest war since Caligula declared war on the sea.
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