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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    98·
    4 天前

    WaPo wants everyone to know they are complying with Hegseth’s directive that credentialed news orgs only print what the Pentagon tells them to print or be blacklisted.

    Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    73·
    3 天前

    No idea what’s coming out of this, but the US empire is running out of time. Every day China grows stronger and the US capability to restrain the world through lawfare and sanctions grows weaker. The hammer is increasingly the only tool left, but it has a shelf life too, as the US’s enemies continue to develop their defensive capabilities. In a little over a week, Iran was able to land significant blows against ‘Israel,’ and Iran has only a fraction of the capabilities of China or Russia. They need to do something, and they need to do it soon. The question is what?

    The article suggests they might focus inward, shifting their focus from China as a primary ‘threat,’ to domestic radicalism, but this would be a terminal mistake. For the empire to literally turn its guns inward and shoot itself in the foot at this moment of precarity would seal its doom. It would only accelerate the decline of the US’s economic, technological, and cultural power, while granting a repressive to its enemies. Liberalism as we know it has already been defeated. The right holds more power now than they have in generations. They already have millions of cops to maintain order domestically, and there is no armed insurgency justifying an “all hands on deck” military response (let alone a single spec-ops unit) to speak of. There is absolutely nothing gain from doing this.

    If they are “smart,” this meeting is being held in preparation for a foreign intervention.

    • Parzivus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      42·
      3 天前

      I dunno, feels like “Nazi counterattacks in 1944” type shit. Like it’s only gonna get harder but even if you try now you have a 90+% chance of failure. The US could probably do a lot of damage, but at the cost of much of the navy and air force, and that’s ignoring the chance of things going nuclear.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      33·
      3 天前

      The civil unrest is real tho, i can’t see how they could launch another foreign invasion without doing some local purging.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    3 天前

    Sources indicate that Hegseth called the emergency meeting because he glued his balls to his butthole again, and now he can’t take a dump because his balls are blocking up his butthole

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    89·
    4 天前

    It’s easy to make fun of Trump and his administration. Time and again they’ve shown themselves to be stupid, incompetent, and lazy. But this meeting gives me the creeps. Trump’s standard method of operation is to have his flunkies brazenly break the law and see what happens. What they are up to?

  • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    3 天前

    long ago are the days when a guy like this could fire 40% of the top generals for being “woke” and they could immediately leave, gather their loyal officers up, “raid” their armories and march on D.C.

    instead they’ll just pout, go home, call their lawyers and worry about their pensions. a few months from now we’ll have humvees at every intersection, checkpoints outside every city

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      26·
      3 天前

      a few months from now we’ll have humvees at every intersection, checkpoints outside every city

      I’ll laugh at MSM’s coverage. MSNBC’s Pentagon reporter might say something like “Until the Supreme Court rules this is Constitut—. Excuse me! Until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality - they must obey their commander-in-chief. But basically speaking - the mood is dour and the top brass along with the rank-and-file are troubled by this vast expanse in the power of the executive branch…”

      MSNBC’s audience really hates this shit but what can MSNBC do? If they don’t phrase things right - they could lose the most important thing. Access.

  • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    67·
    3 天前

    Top administration officials also have preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern, after several years of China being identified as the top national security risk to the United States.

    Does this mean the military is going to be used inside the USA, on their own population, on a previously unseen scale?

    • Comrade_Mushroom [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      54·
      3 天前

      Kinda feels like it, especially since I personally know at least a few people whose brain has been melted by facebook propaganda who would eagerly support it.

      When I saw my mom angrily (and unprompted) blaming “evil democrats” within a couple hours of Kirk getting shot in texts, it highlighted to me on a personal level how the foundation has been laid for this regime to just do whatever they want and get meaningful support for it. There’s a considerable percentage of the population now who are such reactionary fanatics that they will 100% cheer on Trump if they see troops cracking skulls in “evil democrat states”.

    • Red_October [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      52·
      3 天前

      We know what this is. We all saw the Nazi salute during the inauguration, the subsequent deconstruction of the government, and the fucking death camps opening.

    • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      43·
      3 天前

      They were supposed to have those plans ready by September, per a former leak from Klippenstein.

      But I don’t think that would require a meeting like this, after all, attacking Venezuelan fishermen didn’t

        • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          17·
          3 天前

          There hasn’t been any consent building for such an operation and September is already over. It seems they are preoccupied with Venezuela. But when they start building consent against Mexican cartels, you know those strikes are ready to go.

          I live near the border and am not excited at all for the chaos and military presence to come

  • CommCat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    80·
    4 天前

    Ben Norton’s anaylsis of this ghoul is that he’s a religious fanatic who thinks he’s waging a Holy War against Communist China. So these actions he pulls is a concerning

  • PurrLure [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    60·
    3 天前

    Hmmm, hey internal anxiety, what do you think is going to happen?

    Ah… hmm, really? Ok, ok… well shit.

    Don’t let me hold the lathe on this one: They’re going to announce an economic depression soon and ramp up the fascism internally. They’re getting the army prepped to join ICE in brutally deporting people they don’t like. Anyone that refuses during this meeting will be immediately replaced. Martial law will just be the start of the purge. Immigrants, sure, but also the homeless, trans people, leftists, sucdems, libs that actively protest, chuds that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and there’ll probably be a few more fash idiots “martyred” for being more useful dead than alive while they’re at it. My anxiety is telling me to spend all my money on fun shit while I can, but I’m going to try and ignore that urge.

    • PurrLure [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      56·
      3 天前

      Ok now let me give one of the best case scenarios:

      The orders come as Hegseth has unilaterally directed massive recent changes at the Pentagon — including directing that the number of general officers be reduced by 20 percent, firing senior leaders without cause and a high-profile new order to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War.

      Military mass layoffs babeeeeeeeeee. screm-cool

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      20·
      3 天前

      Ignore that urge and save your money. Put it somewhere safe(er), all the better if a very trustworthy family member.