Statements made by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley about his belief that President Trump was contemplating a post-election coup should not be viewed in a vacuum. Last month this same General Milley was defending the teaching of Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets. However, the comments Milley made last month, and more attributed today, only solidify several years of CTH watching Milley operate, and now we have answers to previous puzzling questions.
Remember, General Milley did some really odd things as Joint Chiefs Chairman under President Trump:
(1) Milley never removed Lt. Col Alexander Vindman from his White House post after the underling compromised his leadership position. The pentagon left Vindman on assignment to the NSC even after Vindman attempted to take-down President Trump.
(2) Milley was then slow to react to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer threatening President Trump; attempting to extort him into inaction over the disciplinary plans against the SEAL commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher. And perhaps worst of all…
(3) Joint Chief Chairman Milley, and SoS Mike Pompeo traveled to Mar-a-Lago in December 2019, where they informed President Trump of military strikes in Syria and Iraq *after* they took place. [Background Here] [Background Here]. President Trump made Esper, Milley and Pompeo hold a press conference without Trump supporting them; then President Trump remained silent on the issue for days.
It seemed like CTH was alone in noticing the issues with the Pentagon and suspicions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley. However, a few days after the Mar-a-Lago incident, Col Douglas Macgregor expressed his own suspicions about the U.S. military attack in Iraq and Syria that paralleled our gut reaction. Macgregor stated he believed President Trump was being intentionally and “skillfully, misinformed”.
There were valid reasons for the suspicion around General Milley and the entire Pentagon apparatus.
Factually, President Trump’s strategic approach toward foreign threats and foreign intervention (through the use of geopolitical economic pressure) was a major paradigm shift that removed the Defense Department from a primary role, and placed them back into a more appropriate ‘contingency’ role, when it came to foreign policy and national security.
It was obvious from the outset of the Trump administration that the Pentagon did not like that position.
Before explaining more, let us remember General Milley last month outlining his worldview on internal domestic politics.
Note how Milley connected the teaching of Critical Race Theory to his view that people attempted to “assault” the DC Capitol and “overturn the Constitution of the United States“. Watch this carefully, because in many ways he is saying the quiet thing out loud:
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♦ In the big picture, it was not difficult to figure out why the Pentagon would be opposed to Trump.
During the 2016 Trump campaign and early administration, President Trump’s expressed foreign policy was viewed by NATO alliance members as a threat. President Trump dared to tell them their “cold war mentality” was outdated. Heck, the NATO members were simultaneously purchasing energy from Russia at the same time they were demanding the U.S. military protect them from any Russian aggression.
The same type of common sense perspective that startled the NATO alliance members applied internally to the U.S. military.
President Trump’s preferred use of economic warfare made the Pentagon’s role diminished. Instead of punching North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, President Trump hit the checkbook of Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (tariffs etc.), and then opened diplomatic discussions with the DPRK Chairman. Toward the threat from North Korea, the primary military response became the contingency plan; President Trump engaged in economic leverage, not military…. and it worked.
As a consequence, the value of James Mattis was replaced by the effectiveness of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Joint Chief’s Milley was not in the primary planning room; Milley was replaced by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (until he’s needed).
In the Trump era, the President was telling the Pentagon where and when to position; and then he asked them for ‘contingency’ preparation. Decades of Pentagon-centric foreign policy was lessened by an entirely new geopolitical approach based on an economic strategy. This was, in essence, the Trump Doctrine.
President Trump was executing a foreign policy, a clear doctrine of sorts, where national security was achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power. It was a fundamental shift toward allies and adversaries; summarized within the oft repeated phrase: “Economic security is national security.”
The Trump Doctrine of using economics to achieve national security objectives was a fundamental paradigm shift. Modern U.S. history provided no easy reference.
“Peace is the prize” ~ President Donald Trump
The nature of the Trump foreign policy doctrine, as it was visible, was to hold manipulative influence agents accountable for regional impact(s); and simultaneously work to stop any corrupted influence from oppressing free expression of national values held by the subservient, dis-empowered, people within the nation being influenced.
There were clear examples of this doctrine at work. When President Trump first visited the Middle-East, he confronted the international audience with a message about dealing with extremist influence agents. President Trump simply said: “Drive them out.”
Toward that end, as Qatar was identified as a financier of extremist ideology, President Trump placed the goal of confrontation upon the Gulf Cooperation Council, not the U.S.
The U.S. role was clearly outlined as supporting the confrontation. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates needed to confront the toxic regional influence; the U.S. would support their objective. That’s what happened.
Another example: To confront the extremism creating the turmoil in Afghanistan, President Trump placed the burden of bringing the Taliban to the table of governance upon primary influence agent Pakistan. Here again, with U.S. support. Pakistan is the leading influence agent over the Taliban in Afghanistan; the Trump administration correctly established the responsibility and gives clear expectations for U.S. support.
If Pakistan doesn’t change their influence objective toward a more constructive alignment with a nationally representative Afghanistan government, it is Pakistan who will be held accountable. Again, the correct and effective appropriation of responsibility upon the influence agent who can initiate the solution, Pakistan.
The process of accurate regional assignment of influence comes with disconcerting sunlight. Often, these influences are not discussed openly. However, for President Trump the lack of honesty is only a crutch to continue enabling poor actors. This is a consistent theme throughout all of President Trump’s foreign policy engagements.
The European Union is a collective co-dependent enabler to the corrupt influences of Iran. Therefore the assignment of responsibility to change the status is placed upon the EU.
The U.S. will fully support the EU effort, but as seen in the withdrawal from the Iran Deal, the U.S. will not enable growth of toxic behavior. The U.S. stands with the people of Iran, but the U.S. will not support the enabling of Iranian oppression, terrorism and/or dangerous military expansion that will ultimately destabilize the region. Trump holds the EU accountable for influencing change. Again, we see the Trump Doctrine at work.
Perhaps the most obvious application of the Trump Doctrine was found in how the U.S. administration approached the challenging behavior of North Korea. Rather than continuing a decades-long policy of ignoring the influence of China, President Trump directly assigned primary responsibility for a reset to Beijing.
China held, and holds, all influence upon North Korea and has long-treated the DPRK as a proxy province to do the bidding of Beijing’s communist old guard. By directly confronting the influence agent, and admitting openly for the world to see (albeit with jaw-dropping tactical sanction diplomacy), President Trump positioned the U.S. to support a peace objective on the entire Korean peninsula and simultaneously forced China to openly display their closely-guarded influence.
While the Red Dragon -vs- Panda influence dynamic is still ongoing, the benefit of this new and strategic approach brought the possibility of peace closer than ever in recent history.
No longer is it outlandish to think of North Korea joining with the rest of the world in achieving a better quality of life for its people.
Not only did President Trump openly share a willingness to engage in a new and dynamic future for North Korea, but his approach removed the toxic international and domestic influences that held down the possibility for generations. By leveraging China (through economics) to stop manipulating North Korea, President Trump opened up a door of possibilities for the North Korean people.
This is what I mean when I say President Trump provided North Korea with an opportunity to create an authentic version of itself.
However, take away U.S. military power and influence, or worse yet, stop using U.S. military power, and the leaders within the military industrial complex start to sense their institution becoming functionally obsolescent. Overlay this U.S. military fear with pre-existing ideological differences and the situation gets worse. This is what President Trump was facing in the background as the Pentagon viewed the Trump economic strategy as a threat to their previous geopolitical mission under all previous administrations.
Unfortunately, like all other issues in the era of hyper-polarization, normally liberal Democrats would be alarmed about military leadership going rogue with their own agenda. However, as long as that agenda was anti-Trump, the political-left with a totalitarian outlook are now okay with it.
In 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden was openly asking the U.S. military to initiate a coup against President Trump. The corporate media didn’t bat an eyelash… The traditional checks-and-balances, things that normally keep us stable, started getting very sketchy within the military; this has only gotten worse in the past year.
Remember,… the impeachment effort was only a “soft-coup” until the uniformed military showed up. Yet these same Pentagon leaders have the nerve now to call a protest in DC, likely manipulated by the FBI, an insurrection “intended to overturn the constitution of the United States of America.” The one thing these ideologues are good at is projection.
“Tell me again how we should “back the blue”, as we watch parents arrested at school board meetings. Tell me again that most FBI agents are good & legitimate, while we watch 15 agents investigate a NASCAR garage pull-down cord while ‘known wolves’ roam free and sexual predators rape teenage Olympic gymnasts. Tell me again. Please, keep telling me…. and when the order comes down to go door to door to collect citizens’ firearms, or to arrest citizens for wrong Facebook thoughts, or for refusing vaccinations, our local police and military will follow orders”… and I will say, “Tell me again”… ~Sundance
Seems like there are still quite a few people who trust Mike Pompeo.
I sure as hell don’t. I don’t think I trust anybody after the last six years.
So, what do you think of Milly?
The failure to remove Vindman The Venal Peacock was unforgivable.
This tells us something has gone terribly wrong with the failed generation; an apparent infestation of Ivy League Post Turtles now dominating our governments, agencies and institutions.
Their only skill seems to be promiscuous dissembling, prevarication and attending to the vanities and projections of their cohort Polygarchy.
The reason the hamster headed brothers persisted, was due to an intentional flaw built into the current oversight process.
The most effective way to end potentially harmful investigations into your agency, is to assume investigative control of them.
The IG deliberately launched Vindmans smears, from his Office, as a barrier, to avoid scrutiny, and prosecution. Spearheading a cowardly partisan attack against the Chief Executive, while shielded by “whistleblower protections”.
Any attempts to go after Hamster head would have encountered great difficulty(think prosecutorial assaults, and more Congressional peachmints).
It may appear that IGs are only there to apply oversight, discover/ highlight/ correct/ improve/prosecute/ review, any inappropriate or illegal misconduct. Think again.
IC Inspector Generals are redoubts.
They serve to protect their respective institutions. This I have heard and seen, personally, multiple times.
Looking at how Vindman and Ciarmella effectively abused WB protections, you may well be inclined to speculate, as to why so few WBs step forward…
The IGs are where genuine whistle blowers go be to be railroaded, sign a stack of muzzling ND forms, receive warnings, and end up stumbling around, trapped in IC limbo. This can last years for a WB.
IC IGs generally have no power to prosecute, and beyond referrals and recommendations, no independent enforcement mechanism, to make any senior IC career employee fear serious prosecution.
How many examples can you list, of anyone referred and successfully prosecuted, after an internal IG review? Any individual caught dead to rights, negotiates a plea, long before the Congressional theatre starts.
In particularly egregious cases.
IG personnel, shares classified information with the whistleblowers superiors.
Whistleblowers are themselves subjected to hostile actions, and treated with suspicion and prejudice.
Actively demoralized to induce a violation of ND, with the goal of prosecuting WB.
The IC has to be broken first, to be fixed.
Warfare by law.
Excellent insight. Right out of the USSR Apparatchik Playbook.
“The IG deliberately launched Vindmans smears, from his Office, as a barrier, to avoid scrutiny, and prosecution. Spearheading a cowardly partisan attack against the Chief Executive, while shielded by “whistleblower protections”.”
And the ONLY way it could have been successful is via the likes of Lindsey Graham.
Rhetorical question??
I never knew what to think about the tanker incidents in the Gulf and the shooting down of the drone over Iran. Pompeo said “high confidence” which means “no evidence”. Trump’s reactions seemed strange to me. I don’t know if Pompeo was setting Trump up or if Trump was in on it. That was the point I put a question mark on Pompeo.
Maybe one day Trump will tell all in a book.
I think we can count on that book, but not until he has written his final chapter, if you get my drift.
I do hope he is doumenting term 1 now though. I think that is what they all fear the most. It is why they have attempted to push him and us into irrelevancy so hard and so fast. They want him to have ZERO credibiiity, just like the rest of them.
ric grenell and john ratcliffe weren’t bad. william barr was throwing in the towel on draining the swamp.
William Barr IS the swamp, just as much as anyone can BE a part of it.
Pompeo is a neocon rat IMO and thanks to Sundance for calling out this weasel and scumbag.
I wondered why Pompeo started his own PAC a few months ago, when Winred and Trump fund raising were in full swing. Now I know.
Recent explanations of Barr showed his betrayal— now Pompeo is shown to be just as much a swamp creature.
Even if put back in office, is there anyone Trump can trust to put his (the people’s) agenda into place?
“Even if put back in office, is there anyone Trump can trust to put his (the people’s) agenda into place?”
How about Sundance?
The first 30 plumbers he can find in the phonebook (not a DC phonebook)?
Quite excellent. Assuming of course they are nonunion plumbers.
I have often said any random true patriot off the streets, including the plumbers, could do a better job than the loser traitors we have now.
He (Pompeo) thought he could run for president. As I have said before – DOA.
Not in DC.
Whenever I think I have heard the most outrageous and think it cannot get any worst, I slap myself in the face to make sure I am awake.
We are very close in loosing a quarter of a century of the most Devine Experiment in Freedom and Democracy.
God help us All.
Quarter century?
Sorry my fingers were extremely angry.
What I wanted to say is.
The American experiment of freedom inspired by Devine intervention, which was unique in history, had its birth in 1776 and now almost a century later we are too easily willing to allow these despots take away from us.
Elite school lawyers? Heh, forget about it, don’t trust them any further than a howitzer can fire them into a concrete wall. However, that goes back 4-5 decades, nothing new in the Trump administration, just paid more attention to the particular names. Think about it, for most of us, how many can name Secretaries of State prior to the 2000’s without looking them up? I had to guess that Kissinger was Nixon’s SoS, wasn’t completely sure, and I remember Watergate like yesterday. That was about the time that I started paying more attention to the evil out there that wears suits.
related:
‘Every officer is up to speed on diversity training. Not so much ship handling’: Scathing official report finds US Navy is too woke for war because of risk averse, politically correct, control-freak top brass
One of the key issues raised by the officers interviewed for the report was a concern that Navy leaders spend more time focusing on diversity training than on developing warfighting capacity and key operational skills.
‘Sometimes I think we care more about whether we have enough diversity officers than if we’ll survive a fight with the Chinese navy,’ lamented one lieutenant currently on active duty.
‘The non-combat curricula consume Navy resources, clog inboxes, create administrative quagmires, and monopolize precious training time.
“By weighing down sailors with non-combat related training and administrative burdens, both Congress and Navy leaders risk sending them into battle less prepared and less focused than their opponents,’ the report added.”
I understand there was always a communist party
apparachik on boats and ships who could always overrule the captain or Admiral even if they themselves were some lowly enlisted man.
You mean in the old Soviet navy? or do you mean Joe bidens navy?
is there a difference?
Know as “political officers.”
Spot on.
“risk averse” says it all.
“die-versity is our strength!”
He should be removed
The more I see Milley’s face, the more I hate the man.
He has a stupid look on his face that wreaks of weakness and faggotry. Unbecoming of a military leader.
Free Speech,
That bag-o-guts has GOT to be compromised!
“epstein club”, perhaps?
They’re not going to like him too much, IN THE BRIG!! I hope he brings his perfume..
Dark matter hardens a face into a contorted gargolian mass. Imagine crawling into bed with that horror.
Same kind of ugly, self satisfied, smug arrogance and hateful rhetoric as Brennan. Brothers by another Mother? His demeanor reveals his need for control and his vengeance against our Bill of Rights. Why be so demanding about CRT? A good tree brings forth good fruit. He is NOT a good guy.
Erm, no thanks. I have enough bad visuals.
Definitely ain’t no Eisenhower.
Eisenhower was suspect. Patton was the real deal.
Ike was a golfer. Milley’s a gopher.
Speaking of Badasses From A Different Era…
I watched the documentary “6 June 1944 – The Light Of Dawn – Colorized” on GoogleTube the other day… fantastic.
Unfortunately, the GoogleTube upload is now behind “age restricted login”… freaking ridiculous. But it looks like somebody has a copy on FaceShmuck… been there since June 2020…
https://www.facebook.com/InfoVig/videos/6-june-1944-the-light-of-dawn-colorized/606684943310262/
(no login required)
A must-watch!!!
Make sure you unmute the audio, and hit that full-screen button while you’re at it…
Thank you so much mr. piddles.
He reminds me of master of ceremonies in the “wedding Scene” from the movie Beteljuice.
The general majored in polysci at Princeton where he was infused with right-thinking liberalism. He also has a Masters from Columbia. Shows what lots of leftist brainwashing can do.
Back when the USA actually won wars, the officers were engineering, hard sciences majors . . .
Any monkey can get a poli-sci degree.
The more I learn about this failure Milley the more I dislike him.
I commented in the new daily thread……why are troops coming back now from Afghanistan? While I do want to trust the military, they do “follow orders from superiors”. Will there soon be a variety of missions to accomplish here in the states? Is there any chance at all a single crook in DC will put up a fuss…..maybe a strongly worded missive should there be the start of missions to accomplish here in the states for people who “don’t trust the science”, wayward views on election integrity and other possible fun situations?
My take is because it is logical to do so. Now that Trump is gone the Deep State/IC no longer needs to frustrate his agenda. Really that simple. He was a threat and they attempted to thwart his every success to drive him from power.
President Trump mentioned on one of his recent interviews that he made it so that it would be almost impossible for them to stop the return home order.
Well spotted.
As Rush used to say, this is my ‘pull quote’ –
‘The Trump Doctrine of using economics to achieve national security objectives was a fundamental paradigm shift.’
I would guess the Pentagon didn’t love this idea 🙂
I miss Rush. Our local station has Charlie Kirk on, and it is an awful program. I don’t know what Buck and the other guy are like, but life isn’t the same w/out Rush.
Our local station has Bongino on….
People complain about Hannity…
I have been a 24/7 subscriber to Rush for years. I haven’t missed a minute of his show in at least 10 years.
That subscription carried over to the Clay and Buck show. I have listened to a few days so far.
I am not impressed. They talk fast, take phone calls for the sake of having someone on the phone, then don’t let them finish.
The past 2 days they have brought up various sports news and talked about it at length. I can tune to a hundred different stations to get my ears to bleed. I don’t need to pay for it. I absolutely despise sports talk radio. It’s almost as bad as listening to Camela and the Seahag screeching lies for 3 hours.
Either it turns around soon, or I will be demanding a refund.
Thanks for opine, glad to know I am not missing anything. I have never been much of a Buck fan, and no clue who Clay is. If they are talking about sports, they definitely need to go pound some sand. I find the public far more interesting than the hosts, except for Rush.
I listened almost every day to Rush for more than 30 years. No one can come close to replacing him. Those two clowns officially replacing him on the EIB (Clay and Buck) are pathetic. Dan Bongino makes sense, but I can’t tolerate his voice. I listen to Chris Plante on WMAL in the morning from 9am to noon, and then Howie Carr on WRKO from 3pm to 7pm. Sometimes I listen to Jesse Kelly from 7pm to 10pm. But no one comes close to the talent that Rush had, and I would imagine that nobody ever will.
This past year has been a very tragic and sad one. Trump had the election stolen from him in plain site, Rush died, Walter Williams died, and I would even include the passing of Charlie Daniels in that mix. We lost some invaluable talent in all of those things.
Whenever I see a photo of that stuffed pigeon General Milley, I think he looks like he has a terminal case of hemorrhoids.
Mark Levin has been invaluable to me after Rush died. Listen to his podcast. He’s no Rush. but has tons of great insight.
The deep state also took out Lou Dobbs. I find it hard to believe that all these losses were natural.
I too was an avid Rush listener. My station, after Rush passed away, carried his show highlighting the best of Rush for a while, then they decided to give the time to Derek Hunter, who, by the way, did fill in for Rush once when he was sick. Anyway, Hunter has kept my interest up and I am really glad they made that decision. The station, WCBM is really pro Trump.
Those two, Buck and whoever aren’t good. I detest supposedly conservative talkers that discuss pop culture topics or sports or even food. Those fools actually think we care what they eat.
Well said. I was a Rush fan from early days but even he lapsed into Apple/tech fluff, sports irrelevancies and at least until his last illness, stinkin’ cigars.
As they rightly say given our collective and literal “fall from Grace,” none of us is perfect.
“They talk fast, take phone calls for the sake of having someone on the phone, then don’t let them finish.“
One of the myriad reasons I saw through Hannity years ago. I should be amazed that real conservatives still support Hannity but look at how many still use FB, Twitter and watch college and pro “sports.”
Rush is an Historic, one-of-a-kind Talent.
All others who attempt talk radio are a very, very distant second place.
But we have 30+ years of Rush in our minds – we know enough – it is now up to us to go forth and take action, take our county back.
I used to listen to Rush as much as I could. Since his demise our local station, a CBS affiliate, gave us Hugh Hewitt as a replacement. I tried him for a couple of days, but his mind fragments in all directions, he has voice like a vegetable grater, too much east coast and baseball. Yes, I miss Rush so much, his shoes are impossibly big for anyone to fill. Sundance is our Rush on the electronic paper medium, and for him, thanks be to God.
To me, Rush’s replacement could only be Mark Steyn.
It’s not even close. Steyn for the win
Agreed
Steyn would be ok but his snark gets tiresome.
There is no one that can replace Rush.
I am not much on Steyn. One day listening the light bulb turned on, he just runs his mouth w/out saying a whole lot. Yeah, every once in a while he hits it out of the park, but he really does just yap, not in the arrogant all about me Hannity way, but says a whole lot of nothing, and then might make a point. I also don’t care that he always sounds like he has a cold. I got to the point where I would turn him off. But that is just me, I know lots of people that enjoy him.
My favorite was Ken Matthews, he is the closest to being Rush-like than anyone. I like his tone of voice, I like his humor, and I like his ideals. He just seems like a down to earth guy. I keep meaning to see if I can find his show in PA.
I’ve enjoyed Buck’s show in the past, whether he was covering for someone else or his own stuff. That said, I’ve listened only once since Buck and Co. became an official show. It was just before Independence Day. The topic: what epitomizes the American cook out. This was a segeway into talking about the Resident’s 16 cents savings on cookouts, but it took 15 bloody minutes to get there. I’ve really had no interest since then simply because it isn’t Rush and that’s who I want to hear. When you’ve seen the great works of a master, everything else is a coloring book.
I can never listen to talk radio now as the day Rush died is the day talk radio died. I might listen to Relevant Radio, a Catholic talk show, during the day. The hosts don’t just talk about religion. There are segments dealing with our everyday problems such as CRT, Covid, EUA vaccines, Election fraud, inflation. It amazes me at times.
My replacement for Rush – War Room with Steve Bannon – excellent! Buck sucks, Bongino not far behind.
Yeah – Rush was of the era of informing “the deplorables”, getting us past the controlled corporate media. Letting us know we were not alone, giving the rationale behind our America-First beliefs – while academia/MSM/religiousleftists were trying to tear America down.
Bannon is more of in-your-face-action-action-action. “We’re all about human agency!!”
Two very different hosts, both very effective in their own ways.
Agree.
BINGO, you nailed it. Neither did the Rinos.
Nailed it!
Don’t stop Sundance!
President Trump continue to expose and obliterate the Marxist Regime.
Continue to point out and NAME all Treasonous Bastards!
Never give up. Never give in. Expose All.
abigailstraight: Expose, yes; obliterate, no.
Incarcerate then. Permanently.
If you just take a step back and look at the last four or five posts today, you can see how deep the rabbit hole goes. ‘And knowing Sundance, I’m betting the best is yet to come. Every day it gets worse and worse. The deep state is bringing it fast and furious.
I loved POTUS (Trump) sentence cancelling Milley. { If I were going to stage a coup I wouldn’t use Milley…} (Paraphrase)
I’m thinking all these new attacks on president Trump are aimed at finding an excuse for the obvious fraudulent election.. It was for the good of the Country don’t you see…
My thoughts also
Or in Marxist doublespeak, “all for the greater good.”
Weak men create bad times.
Milly is a compromised weak man.
There is not a “serious frown” or “stern raised brow”, that he’s capable of expressing, that will change that fact.
In addition, Gen Milly also seems to be a raving Marxist loon.
Closet Homo hemeroid
Mark Milley also participated in a secret phone call with Nancy Pelosi over the possibility of removing President Trump’s ability to order a nuclear strike.
These people are evil, and they don’t even know it!
The Democrats will badly require a war, and soon.
The censorship of opposition they practice can only be justified with the excuse that opposition hampers the war effort. Woodrow Wilson made it a crime to criticize conscription in WW I, and he locked up thousands.
As in the novel 1984, or in the reality of North Korea, a constant state of war or near-war is essential to justify the oppression.
As a Corporatist/fascist government, the Democrats need a rebirth of nationalism to justify themselves. War would be both a great catalyst and a great excuse to invigorate nationalism. (They won’t use the N word – globalists hate it. Watch for their substitute euphemism.)
Wag the dog moment!
Your comment may be prescient.
The illegitimate globalist possession currently sleeping in the White House, will need to produce a adversarial military agitator soon.
The threat of White supremacist insurrectionists may not be enough to distract everyone.
The grandmas and grandpas, languishing in in solitary, in DC jails, deprived of their Constitutional rights, are becoming more of a burden, than a boon.
Its looking more lopsided by the day.
You want to know what you are, Mark Milley? Huh? Huh? You don’t. I do. Everyone does. You are the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.
– Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez
…known as the rat. Eli Wallach deserved an Academy Award for that role.
Has he apologized for being White yet?
I’m sure once he understands his “white rage” his apology will be forthcoming! That will be next — the military will require apologies from all white members for being evil since being born white.
I wonder if Milley even knows he is the most hated individual in the military today? Notice I said individual and not a man.
“However, take away U.S. military power and influence, or worse yet, stop using U.S. military power, and the leaders within the military industrial complex start to sense their institution becoming functionally obsolescent. Overlay this U.S. military fear with pre-existing ideological differences and the situation gets worse.”
The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
– James Madison (“The Father of the United States Constitution”) How many members of today’s military could even pass the simplest test on the US Constitution? A pop quiz, not something the could look up the answers for ahead of time
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
the most dangerous time for a nation is when they project weakness….could we appear any more weak than w Slo Joe?
The truth flows like a river here .. So thirsty for it .
Incredibly grateful to have found this site, THANK YOU ♥️
Welcome aboard Shipmate!
Think I just figured it out… Gen. Tough Guy can’t win a real war, so he needs to turn his guns on U.S. citizens… it’s his “Defending Democracy!” fantasy.
Oh… and by the way… I’m starting to get a little whiff of James Comey Syndrome with this guy… how many of those a-holes we got running around the Federal Government?
mr.piddles,
Uhhh.. ALL of them?
The vast majority, if I was asked to pick a number.
All frown, and no cattle.
In this case, it seems to be all manure and no beef.
Sounds like a coup was really in the works…
The stolen election was the coup.
The current coup started four and half years ago…
SIX+
…and don’t forget how Obama purged the good admirals and generals and left the communist sympathizing top brass as well as Comey and Brennan.
Obama the anti-American, pro-globalist, marxist puppet. He is the one who violated the peaceful transfer of power and still is.
Sundance,…
A master-stroke leaving that “support” button @ the bottom of this..
That last paragraph (and picture) is worth every penny of $100.00!!
God Bless,
skipper
A few other points about Milley. He is NOT a West Point grad, he is ROTC, like Vindeman… His family was wealthy, liberal and against him entering the Military. The NYTimes described him in College as a longhair who played hockey. He is a product of one of the most expensive prep high schools in Massachusetts, then Princeton, then Columbia… So while his fellow soldiers were learning Honor code, etc, he was learning PC, Marxism and Diversity training at two of the most far left Universities in the Country… He’s not going to think Military Command structure because where he went to school they don’t believe in that… His openess to all the lefts jibber jabber is explainable, these are his people, they were his roomates, dorm buddies and classmates… Obama is more acceptable to him because their academic heritage is the same… This guy ISN’T Military, he’s no different then any lefty College hack you’d find at ANY University today… His pre description by fellow soldiers is that he was and always has been “a political General”… Recently, his wife was described by The Hill as a Military Jill Biden… I think from his background and education, it’s easy to see why we are where we are…
He’s certainly no Tommy Franks.
True enough..more like Ichbod Crane.
I think Tommy Franks called Iraq war pusher Richard Perle “the dumbest man alive”. Not a good move since that group of neoclowns occupied GWB’s mind in 2002 and on.
Milley said he feared a Reichstag moment when it appeared that the dems had stolen the election.
The echo from history was when Stalin said that the people who vote don’t really matter, but the ones that count the votes are ones that really matter.
The eyes are the windows to the soul. His eyes have big bags under those windows. Why is that?
Sweet.
Well, that was an eye-opener.
This comment is absolutely spectacular.
His beach friends. Yeah, we get it.
Charles Stephens,
I bet mr. milley’s wife has him “pegged”, IYKWIM?
I wouldn’t say that ROTC guys are fated to be poor leaders or leftist demagogues. Plenty of good ROTC guys out there. Service academy grads come in exactly two flavors though; worthless or stellar. ROTC guys tend to be more middle of the pack.
Unfortunately, politicking is rewarded at the GO level.
To be clear, I wasn’t criticizing his ROTC experience, for full disclosure, my son is a ROTC currently doing his Advanced Training… ROTC training is different then what you get at the Academy and ROTC at the Ivy’s is different then what you’d see at Penn State, Pitt, etc. Plus the type of day to day students is very different… While his family WAS Military, they were dead set against him pursuing that career and tried to sabatoge him from going Military…. His real background is wealthy, elite, Ivy… And that’s the issue here…
Very true. ROTC does not provide the immersive experience that the academies do. ROTC lieutenants and ensigns tend to be super happy gung-ho about the military, where academy cadets and midis get their disillusionment right up front. I would agree that his family being down on the military probably had a profound influence on him.
Good luck to your son! I know everyone is super down on the military right now, but there are still plenty of honorable people in it.
Oh, great, another “Red Thread” hire.
Does anyone know who “whispered” into President Trump’s ear to have him nominate and appoint this freak show into this position?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-military/trump-to-nominate-milley-as-next-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-idUSKBN1O70JS
I sure as heck hope next go around President Trump has actual smart Patriotic Constitutional America First people advising him if he’s going to farm these decisions out. Everyone needs to be better vetted.
Probably Pence again.
National Lampoon’s Animal House
There is nothing wrong with not being a West Point grad. Barry McCaffrey, rabid Trump hater , is a West Point grad as is another Trump hater McChrystal. Most of our left wing generals are West Pointers. These parasitic tax eaters felt threatened by Trump putting the Pentagon on the back burner. Defund DoD is my solution
Again, my point wasn’t about West Point vs ROTC, it’s that he is the product of the elite, Ivy League, Leadership assembly line and has their beliefs as his Code… McCaffrey and McCrystal are products of the Brookings Institute Cartel and that’s a whole different can of worms to examine…
When you going to do an article dissecting Trump pushing Operation Warp Speed through? What’s your theory on this??
Now right there, that’s how you stay on topic.
Why don’t you expound on the topic on your blog?
I am sure people will line up for miles around to read your thoughts.
Or not.
Always dropping stink bombs.
“I want to understand ‘White Rage’… and I’m white. I want to understand womxn with penises. I want to understand what the ‘+’ means in LGBTQ+…” etc. etc.
As the audit train is picking up speed throughout the key swing states, it feels like the Biden communist regime is trying to derail the train by any means necessary. And I have no doubt that Milly and his kind in the military have already drawn up plans to back up Biden by going into a kinetic showdown with what he calls the enemy. Us. Then we’ll find out real quick whose side the warfighters in the military will be on.
God help us if the warfighters “are just following orders”. We better hope there are some strong leaders that jump to our side and bring their men and equipment to defend us. At least until we get some help from veterans like Erik Prince. It’s going to be bloody either way. And I have a gut feeling that that moment is a lot closer than any of us realize!
When Our President Trump
Walked Into North Korea ,
I Cried and Cried .
What a Time to be Alive
and See That !
(Among the Long List of Other Things Our President Trump Accomplished) !
What a MAN ?!?!?
Thank You , Sundance !
Excellent Article , As Always ?
When Milley orders U.S. troops to fight American patriots, there will be a historic moment for all Americans to make a choice.
People like this lunatic are pushing America to a dangerous point.
Well, Milley and his ilk will be in for a rude awakening. Like the t-shirt I saw the other day with a picture of Kyle Rittenhouse walking with his rifle and under it the caption: “F*ck around and find out.” This should be our mantra with the illegitimate power that has usurped our federal space.
Great analysis.
I am wondering how this dumb, vile, spiteful, hateful General still has a job. Of course the GOPe is too weak to demand his firing. Every silent Republican needs to be primarried. To back this current GOPe leadership is to lose 2022. Trump needs cut the cord.
It must have gutted the top brass to hear the cheers from our troops for Trump while walking besides him. We may see a mass exodus of the lower ranks if they enforce the JAB or risk separation.
The timing of this BS ”JournOlist” hit piece is suspect. Ya think it coincides with these Audits?
First rate analysis of the dynamics and power fluxes of high-level geopolitics, Sundance.
Very nicely done! In a very accessible and penetrating writing style.
Nowhere else can one read this level of detail and big picture coherence. The Economist tries but they rank far left amateurs.
Thanks. Much appreciated by someone who has read tens of thousands of pages of technical reports (much of which has been drivel).
Buck
Didn’t Trump appoint this clown?
This is an example of the major failing of the Trump administration, imo; poor guidance if not devious and a reliance of failed insiders
yes President Trump did as he did with cardinal comey and his successor wray. President Trump basically followed an old tenet of purging dishonesty by “promoting individuals to their highest level of incompetence”!!
It is quite clear that President Trump is a skilled Manager and Leader – he gave these traitors their jobs but when they “assumed” that he was backed into a corner he only exposed their level of incompetence, dishonesty and treachery and when they fell flat on their faces they got disgracefully exposed and removed.
I personally believe that it has been most people’s experience that guilty and deceitful and liars end up slipping up big time!!
The minute that they 1st took action against President Trump, coming down the elevator, in New York City, and even prior to that date the deep state evil and corrupted military – industrial complex was going after President Trump!! President Trump magnificently and strategically masterminded the last thing that they have for decades – he has exposed their inner workings as well as their lying, cheating. corrupted and tratorious players!!
WE THE PEOPLE have been awakened and are beginning to see that we have no choice but do what We are beginning to do – stand up, challenge and do what President Trump has been doing all along – to take the fight back to the real enemies of America and humanity as a whole!!
Amanda Millis worked for Pompeo in the State Dept. she said Pompeo was too busy fundraising to pay attention to all the anti American’s working in the state dept.
Remember when he tweeted he was going to release all Hillary’s emails? That never happened either.
Fundraising for what?
His Presidential run I guess… which will go nowhere. He’s fat, a coward, wears a stupid smirk and looks possessed on the tv camera. But he was number one at West Point which means nothing when you had the CIA, State and the Military unchecked doing donuts on your front lawn. His own State Department charged his boss, Trump with basically treason. Plotted with a mysterious whistle-blower to get Trump impeached over something he has the power to command. So no Pompeo was a bum.
When I saw this guy on Sesame Street, in Uniform, that’s when I figured he’d gone over to the Dark Side. This man is a disgrace
Well for starters, if Trump had supported General Flynn, and brought on Admiral Rogers, things with thenmilitary would be entirely different.
I have thought that Pence somehow set up General Flynn – maybe he colluded with the media knowing the question to be asked about Gen Flynn – that answer is what caused President Trump to have to release Gen Flynn – seemed too coincidental.
That makes all the sense in the world.
Pence didn’t change. People don’t change, but their masks can slip.
President Trump was forced to choose between Pence or Flynn.
It wouldn’t surprise me if behind the scenes Pence was the one who convinced PDJT to fire Flynn after that Sally Yates visit.
Remember PDJT’s lawyer asked “Why does it matter if he lied to us?” (which he didn’t)
That shows me they were looking to not get rid of him, but Pence probably put the pressure on because he was either in on it or he would have been shown to be an idiot on that TV show.
As to General Milley, I recall during those “fantastic” years of Obama-Mao that “symbolism over substance” became the over riding method of choosing those who would lead departments, cabinet posts, etc.
General Milley’s personal appearance reminded me of that neighbor down the street who has the pit bull in his yard, barking at everyone who passes by. Take a close look at this guy’s face…his bull dog face. Are you supposed to kneel before him due to his education at Princeton? He may think so, he may even believe so. He knows how he looks, he likes his looks, even with the fat deposits just below his eyes. Watch how he uses his hands when speaking.
He is Mr. Tough Guy on steroids, or so he thinks he is. I expect soon we will see Colin Powell on television making some statements…of support. The gang is all here, ready to party. They need a domestic spark to play!
Obama intends to create that spark through his boy, his house boy-you know who. He has some real support in Washington to achieve this. Washington does not like State’s rights, hasn’t for a long long time.
Look for the snarls coming from Washington, those will be the players ready to fight Mr. and Mrs. Average American!
Bull dog face!! He does look like he wants to bite everybody.
Amen.
Back the Blue is another hypnotic type slogan to lull the masses into submission.
Mind your Ps’ Qs’ and RESIST.
Milley is white trash. I knew, without any doubt, that he was not on our side when he decried the walk to Lafayette Square AFTER he took it.
What a squish, and in charge of the military, no way! I would have fired him then and there.
He kneels before Satan, instead of God. Pure and simple.
“the leaders within the military industrial complex start to sense their institution becoming functionally obsolescent.”
By adopting the radical, anti-American ideas of critical race theory and extreme political correctness that has led to lowering standards, plus supporting the coup that occurred through the fraudulent election installing an illegitimate coc, the military is making itself obsolete.
I miss the purple hair photo. The more we can use it the more it explains all. Humiliate the man as he deserves to be humiliated. Pink pussy hat and all.
as a miliary General he should save The country NO politics,
Draining The swamp,
When I see an extremely weak leader like Milley, I can’t help but think they are seriously compromised by very dark secrets.
Think drugged sex with a child on tape.
That’s how ((they)) get ((their)) operatives.
An Army Brat son of a West Pointer here: Milley is a disgrace to the uniform and fits right in with today’s arrogantly ignorant crowd. His level of discernment is that of a teenager.
It is highly doubtful we’ll reach 2024 as far as presidential elections go. Too much is moving too fast for us to have a “free and fair” election by then.
So, I guess the question(s) we have to ask is, what are we to do? Or more precisely, how are we to do it.
It’s the “how” that keeps me up at night.
We are at the precipice of a true constitutional crisis because of the Biden illegitimacy and the entire government being willing to allow it, despite there being proof of the fraud and the voters being fully aware of it.
But what can be done?
The final nails are in the coffin of our once great republic. The politicization of the military and election fraud. We are a banana republic.
Pompes was at CIA before State Dept. That tells you everything you need to know about Pompeo. He didn’t clean house and recommended his replacement. He’s up to his eyeballs in all of it.
The theft of military absentee ballots was known before January 6th (1). Milley did nothing. HIS soldier, sailors had their absentee ballots stolen. HE DID NOTHING.
The country will not accept a stolen election. The far left – and politicians whose necks are at risk for the steal – will do anything to stay in power. This General, Pence, and Barr are as much to blame as Obama and Soros for what is to come.
1. https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2020/12/told-ya.html
The country will not accept a stolen election.
I hope you are correct, but it remains to be seen what the “country” will do as regards its non-acceptance of the stolen election.
I’ve said it other places and I think it bears repeating, but the problem with the military-industrial complex is a problem with how military retirements work for officers.
Most people in the military are going to do 20 years. Some make to it 30. So for enlisted, you can “retire” as young as 38, and for officers, as young as 42. Despite the insane retirement pension program where you get to collect half of you last paycheck for the rest of your life at this point, you generally do have to keep working. This is where the problems are.
Enlisted folks have skills. Sometimes they get screwed by the military not ensuring they get civilian certifications (for example, a combat medic does not have the ability to go be an EMT), and sometimes it’s just blue collar work, but generally, they can translate their skill set. Or if not, their rate of pay is low enough to where it’s not a barrier for restarting a career.
Officers on the other hand usually don’t have hands-on skills. This is more true for the guys in combat jobs, which are the ones most likely to get promoted to the higher GO ranks. For every retiring O-6 who knows how to build a building or program a computer, you’ve got like 20 who spent their careers literally just giving orders. They also get paid more, so they’ve got bigger baseline expenses coming out of the service, bigger egos, and bigger expectations. They’re used to being in charge. And they’re really at a point where going backwards and starting over isn’t possible.
It is really hard to find work as an ex-officer. You have the experience, but no “social capital,” network, or anything like that that civilians use to climb the job ladder. Younger ones can make the transition if they do it early and are willing to retrain. But it comes at a cost. I got out with five years’ experience, and had to take a $40k pay cut just to get my foot in the door somewhere. And I was single with no kids, so I could afford that. A lot of guys can’t, and the problem only gets exacerbated the longer you’re in.
So what does an O-5 with 25 years in do? What does a GO with 35 do? They go where their experience translates. Largely, that’s the defense contracting sector.
There is a whole web of these companies. You hate them while you’re in the service. Forget Boeing. We’re talking about companies that do things like sell hand radios or do military construction. They exist to service a very specific clientele and the work is steady, but limited. They can’t expand their customer base, so the only way to make more money is charge each customer more.
So, they essential hire you to help them extract more money out of the US government. And because you need the money (you have teenagers going off the college soon) you tell yourself it’s not a problem. Then, you start to defend the system you hated.
There’s a way to fix this. Lower barriers to entry for getting government contracts. Take away all the stupid rules that let people game the system. Force bases to work with local contractors first. Stop paying change orders that get disputed. Make it easier to do business with the government and far more painful to be a bad actor. Fix the acquisitions system that actually has less accountability the more money is being spent. And for God’s sake, make bases responsible for wasting money.
I don’t know how you fix the existential crisis people face when getting out of the military. But the defense contracting industry doesn’t help. I know guys who go their full twenty literally carrying pocket constitutions in their uniforms, as conservative as can be, who still go work for these companies and defend it. Because that’s all they have, and they know it.
Thank you. Great explanation.
An excellent exposé on the Trump Doctrine and how that policy initiative threatened the status quo . . . this article is exceedingly insightful; well done SD.
Well, that settles my questions about Pompeo. Thank you, Sundance.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, to see good in people, until irrefutable evidence convinces me otherwise. Tarring someone on the internet without presenting proof (“I don’t trust him” comments) drive me nuts.
I admit I was probably one of the last to turn away from Sessions and Pence and Barr. Now I’m angry and disgusted whenever I see their names. Because I trust Sundance’s opinion, I’m beginning to suspect Pompeo.
Damn!
Anyone who trusts Pompeo is a fool.
Pompeo had all of the information about Ukrainian efforts working with Alexandria Chalupa and Brent Kimberland. The Speedway Bomber, working out of the Ukrainian Embassy to dig dirt on Manafort and the Trump team. Pompeo had a whistle-blower, I have been following since the Politico article in early 2017.
This Ukrainian situation is way more complicated than most people understand going back decades now. The OMB has been a very big player. Thanks to the CIA these people have been poisoning our country since WWII. These are Biden’s buddies. Heck, Freeland in Canada is sitting #2. These are real National Socialisists and until people start understanding the totalitarian onslaught from these Ukrainian diaspora, just fighting the Marxists will not succeed. There is a reason Biden chaired Ukrainian cabinet meetings starting after the Maidan. Pelosi had numerous Ukrainian staffers with ties to oligarchs and arms dealers.
People should rewatch Ukraine on Fire and go back to the Maidan.
There are reasons Vindman was not removed. Remember, Ukraine wanted him in charge of their military.
Maybe Ukraine would like us to introduce them to the words “glass factory.”
Our Senior Defense Department Military Attaché Col Brittany Stewart was photographed in April saluting Vasyl Slipak’s grave. She was wearing a Ukraine or Die insignia upon her uniform.
We will not be nuking Ukraine.
I love the “Tell me again” because it is playing out in real time. Thanks Sundance for all that yall do
Pompeo- it looked to me like he was carefully ushering President Trump out the door, while making sure he didn’t do anything ‘crazy’ like pardon Julian Assange.
If ever there was a time to make waves, it would have been if you were leaving after having the election stolen from you.
Real friends don’t tell you to go quietly.
Concur.
Handler.