Military brass have been deep state goon puppets since before Vietnam. Their roles and those of many beneath them are political.
Spez: About Face by Colonel David Hackworth for more info. First third is an amazing primary source of the front lines in the Korean War. Rest of the book is about his rise as an officer after a field commission and all of the politicization that occurred in the military/govt starting mid-Korea that caused major bungling in Vietnam. He said as much in an interview while in the field and was "politely" asked to retire, in respect of his great career.
Military brass have been deep state goon puppets since before Vietnam
Yes, agree. I was more just referring to how things currently stand. Soetoro did a full sweep to finish cleaning house. He was the culmination of many agendas.
underrated comment here. 8 years of social engineering and purging our senior leadership who all had brass nut sacks and iron labias. So many left wing shills wearing heavy rank and bend the knee to all of the bullshit going on.
I've said this for years. I suspect it was due to a number of factors:
Being an outsider. Not being from the political world, he didn't have the "who's who in DC" insights that most career politician President's have.
Assuming too much that politics is like business. In the business world, despite corporate politics and wrangling, everyone still has the same underlying goal: to make money and increase the value of the company. Trump underestimated the level of deranged antipathy and treacherous subversion he was going to have to deal with.
Conventional wisdom in the business world is that new leaders should wait several months before implementing big changes. MBA schools teach this ad naseum. Keeping Obama holdovers was a big mistake. Typically all political appointees are fired on Day 1 of a new administration. Even Bush 41 did this with Reagan's.
Not being a political ideologue. Trump is instinctual, not ideological. Not having an overarching ideology led him to make decisions based on qualification and resume (e.g. Tillerson, Kelly, Mattis), not on whether they were going to be on board with his agenda.
How could Trump have known this? It's never happened before.
It happened to Bush 2. He kept on a lot of Clinton appointees. It's why he had so many problems with his executive branch, especially the State Department.
There is no such thing as the remnants of the previous administration - they are all deep state or shadow government TRAITORS TO OUR UNITED STATES.
That is all they are traitors, they are not members of some kind of rare elite, incredibly intelligent or even fully functioning human beings - they are just money grubbing, status seeking, virtue signaling Traitors to their Country.
They are all fully aware they are traitors that's why they all group together and put huge amounts of unethical effort to destroy anyone outsider their circle.
That is why they Hate President Trump - they are traitors and they know it, he is not a traitor and they know that too.
Watch this and learn what we are really up against:
He's probably the source of all the SJW push in the military
No, Soetoro is responsible for that. ALL of the top military leaders are his goons.
With that said, Esper is certainly not doing anything to fix the problem.
Eample: why was Vindman allowed to retire instead of being dishonorably discharged for so brazenly breaking chain of command?
Military brass have been deep state goon puppets since before Vietnam. Their roles and those of many beneath them are political.
Spez: About Face by Colonel David Hackworth for more info. First third is an amazing primary source of the front lines in the Korean War. Rest of the book is about his rise as an officer after a field commission and all of the politicization that occurred in the military/govt starting mid-Korea that caused major bungling in Vietnam. He said as much in an interview while in the field and was "politely" asked to retire, in respect of his great career.
Yes, agree. I was more just referring to how things currently stand. Soetoro did a full sweep to finish cleaning house. He was the culmination of many agendas.
I wish we could bring back the Generals and officers he forced out. They are the only onesie know aren’t his brand of swamp.
Patton mysteriously dying after suggesting plowing over the USSR should have raised eyebrows.
Obama fired hundreds of them.
Dishonorable discharge? How about UCMJ his ass...
Yes, that's what REALLY should have happened. My point was that he didn't even receive minimal consequences for what he did.
He can still lose that retirement if charged, tried, and convicted for the many crimes he committed while wearing officers' insignia.
Dual citizenship from Ukraine and a US military officer.
These two things should not exist together.
How do you know where their loyalty lies, if they are loyal at all being a dual citizen in the first place.
I am an American and will never be anything other than American.
underrated comment here. 8 years of social engineering and purging our senior leadership who all had brass nut sacks and iron labias. So many left wing shills wearing heavy rank and bend the knee to all of the bullshit going on.
Can they be replaced with more genuine soldiers?
It started under Clinton.
He has limited options. Its frustrating but I think we're seeing that the power even of the Presidency is curtailed by these bureaucrats.
I've said this for years. I suspect it was due to a number of factors:
This! This is a fair assessment of President Trump and his hiring decisions. #2 is the most important and most true.
I don't think he knew he was being set up when they did not offer their resignations on day one.
Obama set it up that way; had them change the wording of their resignations so he could use them to help him continue as shadow president.
How could Trump have known this? It's never happened before.
This is the first time the Cabal has not had control of the president, so they tried to keep control of the administration.
It happened to Bush 2. He kept on a lot of Clinton appointees. It's why he had so many problems with his executive branch, especially the State Department.
This. MFing this.
No it is the remnants of the previous admin
There is no such thing as the remnants of the previous administration - they are all deep state or shadow government TRAITORS TO OUR UNITED STATES.
That is all they are traitors, they are not members of some kind of rare elite, incredibly intelligent or even fully functioning human beings - they are just money grubbing, status seeking, virtue signaling Traitors to their Country.
They are all fully aware they are traitors that's why they all group together and put huge amounts of unethical effort to destroy anyone outsider their circle.
That is why they Hate President Trump - they are traitors and they know it, he is not a traitor and they know that too.
Watch this and learn what we are really up against:
https://youtu.be/rQouKi7xDpM
No, it came well before his tenure as SecDef.
I was gonna say... you're looking at it.