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The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 172 points 6 days ago

There is no way this is a good thing. Summoning a single general to a meeting without giving any context is not a thing that is done. Summoning all of them and not stating the meeting purpose or providing read ahead charts or pre-briefs... that's incredibly ominous.

I'm hoping it is only him directing them to call it Dept of War (DoW) on all official comms instead of DoD.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 125 points 6 days ago

Its also ridiculously irresponsible.

There is a lot of discussion to be had over the actual value of a general in modern warfare (where individual soldiers have tactical value and so much decision making happens at the company or even squad level). But no discussion is required to say what a ridiculously juicy target "every high ranking military official" is and the massive damage to morale and organization that would ensue.

Yeah that’s a lot of HVT in one area.

I wouldn’t be super shocked if this turns into loyalty pledge-a-palooza.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 days ago

That's my guess as well. "Swear a blood oath to King Trump personally or you're fired right now".

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

"Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes, Adolf Hitler, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen.“

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

What, with the current administration, is not ridiculously irresponsible?

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[-] KnitWit@lemmy.world 78 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant. Everybody is being called for two reasons; that’s how the corpo’s do layoffs now and, more importantly, as of right now the admin has zero fucking clue which 1/4 they are going to fire yet. That list is going to have more day of changes than a Vince McMahon era PPV.

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[-] robocall@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago
[-] KingArnulf@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

10 bucks says Hegseth meant to meet with a couple generals, but because he was drunk he accidentally sent the orders to every general and admiral in the military.

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 78 points 6 days ago

Drunk texted them accidentally?

[-] SGforce@lemmy.ca 42 points 6 days ago
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[-] verdi@feddit.org 37 points 6 days ago

Can anyone added accidentally to the signal group brief us on what happened in the meeting please.

[-] Doolbs@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago

We're going to war with somebody.

And all the times I've heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.

But, I could be wrong. I always admit that.

[-] hovercat 47 points 6 days ago

And all the times I've heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.

It's always projection. 100% of the time

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 43 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 45 points 6 days ago

I remember hearing a story about some country's leader started gathering their legislators and then claimed he had uncovered a list of names conspiring against him, then announced the names one by one, got the soldiers to lead them to a hallway, and executed them, then the remainder of them pledge loyalty to the leader.

Something like that, forgot what country it was. But this sounds so familiar. Uncanny parallel.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 23 points 6 days ago

A video of that event exists. It was Saddam Hussein.

[-] towamo7603@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago
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[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 days ago

Smells like a purge.

The kind where they'll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

I mean... the US military is supposed to be anti fascist, and if you're a general you've been there longer than just trumps term, so really they are all anti fascists.

Antifa is a terrorist organization now, so he'll round em all up, charge them with treason, and install new generals who've never served in the military before.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man. Which is what my air force friends have been telling me - don't worry, the forces won't go fascist. Trump apparently came to the same conclusion and is reducing their forces while he massively ramps up ICE, his new domestic army that DOES swear allegiance to him.

Which seems like it has implications but I'm no analyst.

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man.

Technically, all of the admin did the same pledge and we see how that's going.

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[-] user_name@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago

“Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”

[-] teft@piefed.social 45 points 6 days ago

If I were a general I'd be worried about some sort of culling a la Saddam.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 33 points 6 days ago

Saddam was a hell of a lot more competent than this bunch. I actually consider it a significant blessing that they want to jump us over the cliff and into fascism, but they're in a Pinto that needs new tires, and they seem unaware enough that they are trying to make it work anyway.

Not to say it definitely won't work, I am glad for people getting out and raising hell about it. But it is a blessing that they are so stupid.

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[-] mathemachristian 20 points 6 days ago

Well we had the horst wessel shooting time for night of the long knives?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 28 points 6 days ago

More like the way Hitler had all the generals summoned in 1935 to take an oath to him personally instead of to the Weimar Republic.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago

Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

The generals in Europe wouldn't care if we invaded South America. He's doing something bigger. My bet is invading Ukraine, Russia, NATO, or the US. And I couldn't guess which one. Maybe more than one.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

I hate that all these are legitimate possibilities. "We're doing a coup, so you will all be expected to do your part."

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 19 points 6 days ago

That could be an email. Bringing them in person is alarming.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

Hegseth is a media talking head. He wants spectacle to garner viewership, so a dramatic in-person meeting would be the way he would do it.

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[-] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 6 days ago

This seems like exactly the type of gathering you want to avoid in a world where hypersonic missiles probably* exist.

* bring on the pedantry over what actually defines a hypersonic missile

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[-] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago

That is seriously ominous

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 23 points 6 days ago

Im calling it. Fight antifa which is anyone the administration says it is or anyone posting or demostrating against facism. I carry signs against facism regularly. no kings anyone?

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 32 points 6 days ago

"Ok everyone, we're here for a very important reason. Trump is pouty over his UN incident and we need to throw him a proper dictator worship party. I'm going to need all of you in DC pronto so we can really give those boots a good kissing. It's for The Good Of the Country™©®."

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago

Maybe they're all getting a suprise ice cream party.

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[-] rozodru@piefed.social 30 points 6 days ago

I mean you don't really call in people from abroad to say "hey, war time" you call in people to tell them they're no longer needed and the others who are also called in get told about the "awesome" restructuring that's going on.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Trump is declaring war on the UN because of the escalator, starting the stupidest war since Caligula declared war on the sea.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

well the pizza index was high last night. that market's just opening so keep an eye

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

They are preparing the Military on the fight on Antifa.

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[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

I hope they all brought knives ala the Roman Senate...

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[-] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 10 points 6 days ago
[-] Mr_WorldlyWiseman 11 points 6 days ago

That article is honestly kind of nonsensical and reads like AI. What does Watergate have to do with any of this?

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Nixon purged the DOJ to cover his ass from watergate.

Trump might be preemptively purging the DOD to cover his ass for a dictatorship.

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