President Donald Trump fired Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown on Friday night, and said he intends to dismiss the Navy’s top admiral and the Air Force’s second in command — an unprecedented shakeup of the Pentagon’s top brass that will trigger ripple effects throughout the military.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, said he was nominating retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to take Brown’s place. Caine is a partner at Shield Capital, a venture capital firm.
Trump also has claimed Caine donned a ‘MAGA’ hat during their 2018 meeting in Iraq, which is against military regulations.
The US military wasn’t ordered to do anything, which was the issue.
An order for them either way to act, or to not act, would have been a point.
Ah. So they’ll be ordered to protect the country when it really matters… From trump… By trump.
Also, “they were just following orders” is a choice argument.
No, I mean they were not given any orders, is what I’m saying.
Being given an order to do something, they can choose to obey it, or not. Hopefully, they’ll go with the moral choice, whatever it is, in the case of the order being given.
Again: Why would they suddenly be “given orders” next time trump decides to violently overthrow the US government?
I am not sure what you think you are saying but you are actually saying that the US military won’t do anything unless they are ordered to. Which doesn’t work when it is the person in the POTUS seat shitting all over the constitution and trying to murder congress.
Being given an order to either aid, to to specifically stand out, or whatever, is a decision point.
Yes, they will react to the order, in some fashion. That’s what I’m saying. They likely will not react to nothing.