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The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

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[–] 168 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 123 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Yeah that’s a lot of HVT in one area.

    I wouldn’t be super shocked if this turns into loyalty pledge-a-palooza.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's my guess as well. "Swear a blood oath to King Trump personally or you're fired right now".

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm skeptical of that.

    This will be hundreds of "military men". Yes, the vast majority are pencil pushers who are in worse shape than the average divorced dad "trying to get back out there". Even if they are bringing every single chud they can find, they are still going to be the "weaker" group. And chuds hate feeling weak.

    If it were just the inevitable loyalty oaths, I would expect that to happen in more isolated groups. And while it is always possible that they could batch the generals into the room to kiss the skidmarked ring, that still feels like a risk when they might not get the photo op they want at the end.

    My money is on "planning how to secede from the United Nations". Aka "planning to go to war with basically all of NATO and a bunch of Global South countries who want revenge". Whether that goes anywhere is a different discussion, but "all of our generals made some great plans" is a talking point they would want.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    When Saddam took power he called a meeting of the party leadership and publicly arrested those he suspected of "treason". He even had the event recorded.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah but Drunky Smurf is a total coward

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Vance and Hegseth arent, though...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Couch fucker is 100% a coward.

    hegseth thinks he is a strong man but also seems competent enough to know that is not something you ever test unless you have to.

    But yeah. This obviously has lots of parallels to every other dictator taking power because... it is a dictator taking power. But people very much underestimate just how big the US military is. I am under no illusions that the Thank You For Your Service crowd are going to do anything other than follow orders and send shots downrange into suburbia, but there are still a LOT of them and the generals are the most political of the bunch (in the sense they are aggressively "apolitical" outside of advancing their own careers)

    Its similar to how, in a lot of ways, Russia probably actually is one of the least likely nuclear powers to just end it all on a whim. The short version being that they (at least in the past) require two high ranking officials to turn the proverbial keys. And the people who hold the other keys are the ones most likely to lead a coup against putin.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    the people who hold the other keys are the ones most likely to lead a coup against putin.

    They are also ones that will absolutely, unavoidably, get informed if Putin wants to launch nuclear weapons. It's unlikely they will agree, so if Putin ever is to ask them to use their "keys", he will show himself as an utmost danger to their lives, and they will therefore organize Putin to die within the next 15 minutes or so. And if he manages to hide in a bunker, he will be completely isolated there and will de facto no longer be the POTRF.
    Someone else will then take over.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    "Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes, Adolf Hitler, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen.“

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Drunk texted them accidentally?

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If they do replace them they will be incompetent boobs who will screw up at every turn. Might be a good thing?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There were two meeting rooms on the email! (/silly joke)

    But don't they do mass firings by text and just locking you out of your machine these days? The US Aid workers were left stranded for a while— not sure if they got help getting back or just got abandoned and had to get friends and family to pitch in for flights home...

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    Maybe it’s like the department of justice: find me a war that will help me politically. I’ll fire anyone who doesnt.

    But shit, Venezuelans need to be stocking up on supplies. Effing MAGAts have already been laying the groundwork

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Epstein's Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Let's just hope it's not against US citizens.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago

    “Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I were a general I'd be worried about some sort of culling a la Saddam.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The generals in Europe wouldn't care if we invaded South America. He's doing something bigger. My bet is invading Ukraine, Russia, NATO, or the US. And I couldn't guess which one. Maybe more than one.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "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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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well we had the horst wessel shooting time for night of the long knives?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I hope they all brought knives ala the Roman Senate...

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    That is seriously ominous

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Putin is salivating right now. Jerking off to visions of a nuke wiping out the heads of US military.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's always the state of the union where you could cripple the US government, so it's not like there aren't options for something like that if you were already willing to risk it.

    Whole TV series on that too called Designsted Survivor with Kiefer Sutherland. I quite enjoyed it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I loved it. But season 3 feels... idk, like the government is already fixed so plot is over, not sure why they even made a season 3.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It got very formulaic.

    Crisis happens, president makes rash decision that his advisors say is going to be a mistake, mistake happens, he fixes mistake with fatherly talk and “I’m new at this” repeat.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    They are preparing the Military on the fight on Antifa.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Military take over of sesame street

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    well the pizza index was high last night. that market's just opening so keep an eye

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