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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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[–] 175 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 127 points 10 months ago (2 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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  • [–] 90 points 10 months ago (2 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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  • [–] 25 points 10 months 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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  • [–] 115 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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    [–] 79 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Drunk texted them accidentally?

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    [–] 78 points 10 months ago* (3 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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    [–] 58 points 10 months ago (9 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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    [–] 55 points 10 months 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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  • [–] 53 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 47 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (3 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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    [–] 45 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Smells like a purge.

    The kind where they'll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (2 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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    That is seriously ominous

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago

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

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (6 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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    [–] 32 points 10 months 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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    [–] 30 points 10 months 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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  • [–] 30 points 10 months 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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    [+] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
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    [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe they're all getting a suprise ice cream party.

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    [–] 15 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    They are preparing the Military on the fight on Antifa.

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