{"id":107174,"date":"2020-11-12T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107174"},"modified":"2020-11-12T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:21:42","slug":"the-associated-press-still-expect-trump-to-become-a-tyrant-at-the-head-of-a-military-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107174","title":{"rendered":"The Associated Press still expect Trump to become a tyrant at the head of a military junta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Military Times ran this AP article with the title\u00a0Military wary that shakeup could upend its apolitical nature.<\/em><\/p>\n

Whoa, this is concerning. What have people, such as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said that the AP is so concerned?<\/p>\n

General Milley, the CJCS, said that the US Constitution is the “moral North Star” for everyone in uniform. Whoa. I can see why they’re so worried. Furthermore Milley said, \u201cWe are unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is how Lolita C Baldor of the AP characterizes those totally honest, true, innocuous, and uncontroversial statements;<\/p>\n

The words spoken by America\u2019s top military officer carried a familiar ring, but in the midst of a chaotic week at the Pentagon, they were particularly poignant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t the first time the DoD has run without a SecDef. This isn’t even the first time in this presidency that the SecDef has been fired. Every single time there’s a shakeup in the Trump cabinet the media clutch their pearls and sound the alarm of chaos and impending tyranny.<\/p>\n

Milley was speaking Wednesday at the dedication of an Army museum in a week that saw President Donald Trump fire Defense Secretary Mark Esper and install three staunch loyalists to senior Pentagon policy positions. The abrupt changes have raised fears about what Trump may try to do in his final two months of office \u2014 and whether the military\u2019s long held apolitical nature could be upended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently the AP has been led to believe that people within the Pentagon (they don’t even cite any anonymous sources) are suddenly super nervous that (since they note Trump “has refused to concede his election loss”) the president will use his last few months in office making some sort of radical, dangerous policy proposals such as…pulling our troops out of Afghanistan. I guess all those limousine liberals with “Support the Troops Bring Them Home” signs in their yards don’t actually believe that message. This is my surprised face. \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

Reading this, one is led to believe that the Pentagon is quivering in fear over what Trump and his alleged sycophant appointees will do. If you’re wondering about the quality of the reporting here, there’s this Grade A bull plop;<\/p>\n

[Former SecDef] Esper also carried Trump\u2019s message on increasing defense spending to NATO allies, with modest success. The move for more allied spending was a continuation of a push by the Obama administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a new one. There’s nothing Trump did that they won’t give credit to Obama for. Few more months and they’ll be talking about the success of the Obama border wall and Obama’s Space Force.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for the link. Source; Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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