Can the military court-martial Hegseth? Oh yeah, that is why one of his first moves was to fire the top JAG officers. It was a transparently pre-meditative move to allow him to order WAR CRIMES with impunity. Impeachment proceedings against Hegseth should have begun about the time of the first strikes and double-tap murders on civilian boats off the coast of Venezuela. Of course, Trump likes the bloodlust and pirate mentality with no legal guardrails. In Trump 1.0, Miles Taylor recounted how the "adults in the room" told Trump that he could not just "shoot demonstrators in the legs". I hold the majority of Congressional Republicans fully responsible for letting Hegseth and Trump denigrate and misuse our military in order to engage in bloodsport for the sake of their maladjusted adolescent ego-gratification. Congress has the power to stop the illegal Iranian War through the War Powers Act as well as impeach Hegseth. Not only is the American voting public looking at the Repugnant Party with disgust, but so is the entire world.
Absolutely. A common tactic of toxic personalities in positions of leadership empower is to eliminate dissent and destroy guard rails. Then, empower sycophants who serve as his enablers. Healthy, ethical institutions require accountability. Presently, there’s not much of that.
A disciplined military with good leadership and high morale is a deterrent to Trump's plans of dictatorship. This is why I believe he hired Pickled Pete: To rid the branches of the strong leaders and kill the morale of the rank-and-file. Thus disheartened, they would then be more likely to go along with Trump's plans to declare himself President-For-Life!
Why would enter or volunteer to go into the services? It sounds terrible the way our service men are being treated. And Hegseth thought the war was a good idea. We are finding out it isn’t. We have lost soldiers. He had fired the people who knew what to do during a war. He has screwed us royally. What can we do if anything?
Good questions. I have not checked recruiting numbers recently. Imagine the services are having challenges, recruiting necessary personnel. Trump and Hegseth were more concerned about a show of strength than they were about strategic advantage. When a leader is more concerned about their appearance, they exploit others. They eliminate any resistance. What can we do? There are two ways to remove him at this point. Either Trump can fire him or Congress can impeach him. Trump will only fire him when he becomes an extreme embarrassment. Congress will only impeach him when we make enough noise and when the Democrats wIn congressional elections and take control of Congress. Make your voice heard and vote.
Yes. We teach our Service members to fight fair, legally, ethically, and morally in order to avoid unnecessary casualties. One category of unnecessary casualties is moral injury, which is the result of engaging in actions that violate ones conscience and more compass. I’m glad that we are not in a ground war and I hope it never comes to that because I would expect many violations of the law of armed conflict, that is, war crimes. I will expect many more events like bombing of suspected drug runners in the Caribbean and the bombing of the Iranian girls school. He is setting an example of undisciplined, rampant, lethality, and blood thirstiness.
He leaves us to face the coming war with China with nothing in our hands and nothing left in the closet. Under his leadership we really are doomed. We will find ourselves in the Chinese century, a second-rate power, with a future rather grimmer than we once hoped.
I don’t know what was said by the senior leaders that Hegseth fired. I imagine and it’s certainly likely that they resisted the war, knowing that it would make us vulnerable in other parts of the world like Asia and Europe. Trump and Hegseth were more concerned about showing off. Every military strategist knows it is better to deter an enemy with diplomacy and negotiation rather than kinetic force. The Iran war has elevated and empowered Iran, and has given China the strategic advantage as you astutely noted. These two have hollowed out our military and sabotage our credibility in the world.
Can the military court-martial Hegseth? Oh yeah, that is why one of his first moves was to fire the top JAG officers. It was a transparently pre-meditative move to allow him to order WAR CRIMES with impunity. Impeachment proceedings against Hegseth should have begun about the time of the first strikes and double-tap murders on civilian boats off the coast of Venezuela. Of course, Trump likes the bloodlust and pirate mentality with no legal guardrails. In Trump 1.0, Miles Taylor recounted how the "adults in the room" told Trump that he could not just "shoot demonstrators in the legs". I hold the majority of Congressional Republicans fully responsible for letting Hegseth and Trump denigrate and misuse our military in order to engage in bloodsport for the sake of their maladjusted adolescent ego-gratification. Congress has the power to stop the illegal Iranian War through the War Powers Act as well as impeach Hegseth. Not only is the American voting public looking at the Repugnant Party with disgust, but so is the entire world.
Absolutely. A common tactic of toxic personalities in positions of leadership empower is to eliminate dissent and destroy guard rails. Then, empower sycophants who serve as his enablers. Healthy, ethical institutions require accountability. Presently, there’s not much of that.
A disciplined military with good leadership and high morale is a deterrent to Trump's plans of dictatorship. This is why I believe he hired Pickled Pete: To rid the branches of the strong leaders and kill the morale of the rank-and-file. Thus disheartened, they would then be more likely to go along with Trump's plans to declare himself President-For-Life!
Why would enter or volunteer to go into the services? It sounds terrible the way our service men are being treated. And Hegseth thought the war was a good idea. We are finding out it isn’t. We have lost soldiers. He had fired the people who knew what to do during a war. He has screwed us royally. What can we do if anything?
Good questions. I have not checked recruiting numbers recently. Imagine the services are having challenges, recruiting necessary personnel. Trump and Hegseth were more concerned about a show of strength than they were about strategic advantage. When a leader is more concerned about their appearance, they exploit others. They eliminate any resistance. What can we do? There are two ways to remove him at this point. Either Trump can fire him or Congress can impeach him. Trump will only fire him when he becomes an extreme embarrassment. Congress will only impeach him when we make enough noise and when the Democrats wIn congressional elections and take control of Congress. Make your voice heard and vote.
His so-called “warrior ethos” looks to me more like criminal psychopathology.
Yes. We teach our Service members to fight fair, legally, ethically, and morally in order to avoid unnecessary casualties. One category of unnecessary casualties is moral injury, which is the result of engaging in actions that violate ones conscience and more compass. I’m glad that we are not in a ground war and I hope it never comes to that because I would expect many violations of the law of armed conflict, that is, war crimes. I will expect many more events like bombing of suspected drug runners in the Caribbean and the bombing of the Iranian girls school. He is setting an example of undisciplined, rampant, lethality, and blood thirstiness.
He leaves us to face the coming war with China with nothing in our hands and nothing left in the closet. Under his leadership we really are doomed. We will find ourselves in the Chinese century, a second-rate power, with a future rather grimmer than we once hoped.
I don’t know what was said by the senior leaders that Hegseth fired. I imagine and it’s certainly likely that they resisted the war, knowing that it would make us vulnerable in other parts of the world like Asia and Europe. Trump and Hegseth were more concerned about showing off. Every military strategist knows it is better to deter an enemy with diplomacy and negotiation rather than kinetic force. The Iran war has elevated and empowered Iran, and has given China the strategic advantage as you astutely noted. These two have hollowed out our military and sabotage our credibility in the world.