As U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders military brass from all around the world to meet with him for unstated reasons, he may be facing a form of military uprising, according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.Political strategist S...
  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Wait are we talking a Military Coup in response to the awful treatment of the armed forces by Trump/Hegseth/ etc?

    That would explain the huge budget increase to immigration and border control.

    But oddly enough, in 1934, the German military voluntarily took an oath to Hitler (fucking wild, I always thought he made them swear the oath, but that’s not true according to Stalinism and Nazism: dictatorships in comparison.

    Trump is trying to build up a larger, poorer trained, less equipped, dumber SS like paramilitary Incase the military does turn on him. But that might not be disadvantagous by the end of this year, and even more so since the battlefield would almost entirely in the contiguous US, meaning the Navy can only really provide support to the coasts.

    If you include all reserves and national guard the Army is about 1m strong. Air force is ~500k, Navy is 400k, Marines are 200k strong, and Coast guard is ~60-70k. I’m not going to bother with Space Force.

    The feds (DHS) currently have 204k employees (I’m guessing it’s larger than last reported) and a lot more money than they used to. And a large part of those aren’t a

    Personally I don’t understand the probability of the Military turning on Trump. Trump/Hegseth/Heritage Foundation would certainly get the war they wanted if that happened, but that will fuck up our country beyond recognition. There is a small chance that the US military would relinquish power, but it wouldn require the leaders to have heads like George Washington.

    Though the collapse is probably what Putin was interested in. The billionaires have been preparing for it with their bunkers. I don’t like this prospect of all the prospects so far. (But it would hopefully be better than the 258m lives HF is after).