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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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    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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      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.

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    Can anyone added accidentally to the signal group brief us on what happened in the meeting please.

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      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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        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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          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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      “remember in 2001 when we sent you on a pointless crusade against a nebulous idea? We’re doing that again but harder.”

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        Nixon purged the DOJ to cover his ass from watergate.

        Trump might be preemptively purging the DOD to cover his ass for a dictatorship.

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          Trump might be preemptively purging the DOD to cover his ass for showing up in the about to be released Epstein files

      • Tuukka R@piefed.ee
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        I was a bit lost on what you are referring to… Is it these three lines as one of the mentioned historical echoes that aren’t mentioned in the rest of the article?

        Historical Echoes

        (…)

        Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre (1973):
        A president gutted DOJ to protect himself. Substitute “DoD” for “DOJ,” and the rhyme is chilling.

        (…)

        If something else, it would be interesting knowing what.

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    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.

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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      perhaps they’re taking Russia seriously

      trump takes his orders from Putin, and as such he will be invading Norway

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      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 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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    This is one of those headlines that freaks me out, but ultimatly this meeting probably won’t effect me in any way. This keeps happening. I should just stop monitoring this stuff.

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      They don’t do this sort of thing. It’s very convenient for avoiding a paper trail though. Don’t need to send out a memo saying to gun down protestors, just tell them all to their faces.

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    16 hours ago

    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?