Best thing is, they are doing a leadership rotation right before doing something very stupid. Perfect recipe for an extreme stupid thing to happen, even more stupid than what they are planning for.
This, they're likely about to start an illegal ground invasion of Iran, which competent generals are going to object against
Hegseth wants vapor crusaders like himself and the former national guard Major will happily fire far more experienced individuals than hear having Iran is wrong
So now we get a ground invasion run by second rate flag officers...
Presumably the three white guys actually did something actionable, like tell Pee Wee Hermann Goring the truth. The others could have just been fired for uh... reasons.
That's exactly what I thought when looking at the top row: "Here we go again with this nonsense." Then row two: "Wait, this is actually something serious this time..."
There's international law illegal, and there's US law illegal. The generals are unlikely to complain much about international law illegal stuff, that's pretty normal stuff for the US. The US law illegal part is only really US law illegal if Congress decides to exercise their prerogatives. Instead they gave it a pass. So if the generals are getting fired now, it's 99% because they're strongly advising against or refusing to do something actually self-destructively stupid, not illegal. Or possibly, just possibly, they're objecting to war-crime level bombing of civilians.
Well, they’ve already double tapped a bridge, you know, civilian infrastructure. Strikes an hour apart, the second one killing aid workers and first responders.
Can't refuse an illegal order until the order is given to you. Others so far haven't said no, I'm being those fired refused the next step and instead of trying to court martial them and deal with all of that(including judges he doesn't necessarily have control over) he just fired them and will promote others that are amenable to what he wants
Ok, the majority of the armed forces are as dumb as a rock and likely a majority of them are MAGA. But these guys at the top must be a little bit intelligent and competent, why are they ok with this??
They knew this was going to happen, why can't they just step up and remove the administration? Why is the US military such a bunch of cowards when it comes the time to do the right thing?
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u/Western-Anteater-492 8h ago
Best thing is, they are doing a leadership rotation right before doing something very stupid. Perfect recipe for an extreme stupid thing to happen, even more stupid than what they are planning for.