Lots of of American army commanders have been summoned from all around the world and ordered to assemble in Quantico, Va., on Tuesday to listen to what turned out to be insulting and deranged lectures from President Donald Trump and his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth, who now styles himself as “the Secretary of War,” took the stage first to rail towards woke tradition, allegedly undeserved promotions of ladies and nonwhite officers, facial hair and fats troopers. He extolled the “warrior ethos” to a room crammed with women and men with tons of of years of fight expertise amongst them, speaking right down to them as in the event that they have been new recruits and he have been one thing greater than an ex-Fox Information babbler with no {qualifications} for his current job apart from being a former Military Nationwide Guard officer.
As unhealthy as Hegseth was, Trump was far worse. He rambled considerably incoherently and listlessly for greater than an hour, airing his normal political gripes and addressing army issues solely sometimes. When he did discuss in regards to the army, he sounded each deranged and harmful, suggesting that the U.S. army ought to “practice” in American cities, standing able to unleash their deadly energy on their fellow residents.
“Plainly the (cities) which can be run by the novel left Democrats, what they’ve accomplished to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they’re very unsafe locations,” Trump stated, wildly exaggerating in his normal method. “And we’re going to straighten them out one after the other, and that is going to be a significant half for a number of the folks on this room. That’s a battle too. It’s a battle from inside.”
Does Trump really imagine that U.S. cities, similar to Portland – his newest goal for Nationwide Guard deployment – are chaotic battle zones that require army intervention, or is he seeking to set a precedent that may give him the means to make use of army pressure to crush his opponents and preserve his energy?
If it’s the former, then he’s significantly delusional and deceived by conspiracy theories and Fox Information hysteria. If it’s the latter, then we now have real motive to concern his anti-democratic intentions.
Our hope might lie in army leaders who have sworn their loyalty to the Structure, to not the very unusual man at present residing within the White Home.
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