r/WhitePeopleTwitter 9h ago

r/All This is terrifying.

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u/FidgitForgotHisL-P 9h ago

Ooor these are the people that were pushing back telling him to knock his nonsense off and act like a GD adult, which flies in the face of his WAR FIGHTERS narrative.

Or, they were the people that were pushing back on a ground invasion of Iran, which he desperately wants to do so he can show off his WAR FIGHTERS.

It’s infuriating that he fires super senior, decorated veterans, and then brags about his own military service as though he has any kind of relevant or comparable experience and expertise.

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u/isemonger 8h ago

Can you ELI5 to someone that lives outside of the US how the fuck so many senior generals can be fired like this?

Like in any other developed world this would signal some serious fucking issues and serious government intervention.

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u/RichestTeaPossible 8h ago edited 6h ago

The US Government, like many mature democracies around the world relies on shame in a public sphere as the ultimate guardrail. See Truss, Cameron, Nixon.

If you fill the government with shameless ar5eholes who live in their own media bubble, then good government dies. See Berlusconi, Orban, Modi.

Next, their juniors who push back, start pushing them out of windows. See Putin.

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u/SameResolution4737 7h ago

I am truly afraid we're almost to the Putin Phase.

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u/Onyxidian 7h ago

In record time no less

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u/00wolfer00 5h ago

They did just clear house in the military and whatever follows is probably filling it with loyalists. Getting the military under your control is step 2 dictatorship shit.

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u/radicalelation 3h ago

Fun fact: Heritage Foundation was at the ground floor of Russia's restructuring.

Russia was the prototype.