The headline stories today are large, and so is the background as these issues surface. Context becomes increasingly important as each aspect is reviewed. As you look at the stories, remember this context (emphasized as a reminder):
♦ TEAM One – The Department of State is aligned with the CIA. Their media PR firms are CNN, CNNi and the Washington Post. Their ideology is favorable to the United Nations. Their internal corruption is generally driven by relationship with foreign actors. References: Hillary Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, John McCain, Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, Cass Sunstein, Brookings Institute, Lawfare, China-centric, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Council on Foreign Relations.
♦ TEAM Two – The White House is aligned with the Pentagon (DoD) and National Security Council (NSC). Their media PR firms are domestic in nature. New York Times, Politico, etc. Their internal corruption is generally driven by domestic influence. References: Barack Obama, George Bush, Wall St, Big Banks, Multinational Corporations, Defense Contractors, FBI (state police), Judicial Branch, and community activists writ large. [Presidential elections only affect Team Two (nationalism -v- globalism). In the modern era Team One is independent.]
Today CNN, via Bob Woodward [Article Here] and The Washingon Post, via Robert Costa [Article Here] collaborate on a designed hit against one of the key corrupt actors on Team Two, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. CTH previously said this was coming: “Look for Joint Chief’s Chairman Mark Milley to be the guy who gets canned to protect Joe Biden. Mark Milley knows this is likely.”
The framework of the CNN article is that General Milley:
…”called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon’s war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.
“No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood.
“Got it?” Milley asked, according to the book.
“Yes, sir.” ‘Milley considered it an oath,’ the authors write. (read more)
The framework of the Washington Post article paints Milley as even more rogue. A power hungry operator of the industrial military complex, defying civilian oversight:
(WaPo) […] In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa.
One call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the election that unseated President Trump, and the other on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the Capitol siege carried out by his supporters in a quest to cancel the vote.
The first call was prompted by Milley’s review of intelligence suggesting the Chinese believed the United States was preparing to attack. That belief, the authors write, was based on tensions over military exercises in the South China Sea, and deepened by Trump’s belligerent rhetoric toward China.
“General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,” Milley told him. “We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.”
In the book’s account, Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.” (read more)
Yes, General Mark Milley is a power-hungry political manipulator and collaborator with the Deep State, in the effort to undermine President Donald J Trump. We already knew this…. {Go Deep} So, why is The WaPo and CNN hitting him now?
The answer is in the problematic sunlight facing the Fourth Branch of Government in the aftermath of the Afghanistan mess. CTH has been writing about this, because we knew a time would come when the coordinating participants were going to fracture in order to protect themselves.
“The deepest, swampiest part of the Deep State is protecting its interests against the outcome of a crisis in Afghanistan they collectively created. The picture has now emerged of their plan to blame the White House, and by extension Joe Biden along with the Pentagon.” {LINK}
“Modify the focus of your prism as you review all new events in/around Afghanistan to see the connective tissue between CNN, the State Department and CIA [strongest institution within the Intelligence Branch]. Then keep in mind, the Senate is in alignment with, and a facilitator for, the Intelligence Branch. As a consequence, the institution of the senate will align with the interests of the State Department; and, by default align with the CIA, intelligence community and CNN reporting.”
You think CNN and the Washington Post only recently came to the understanding that General Mark Milley was a corrupt, politically motivated actor, working on behalf of the interests of the Deep State [4th Branch]? Of course not. They are using the opportunity of this book by Woodward and Costa to hit Milley, place the blame for Afghanistan in his lap, and make him the scapegoat so that Joe Biden and the other participants can avoid further scrutiny. Their play is transparent.
Here’s the previous reminder about Mark Milley’s operations against Trump when CNN, WaPo and The Fourth Branch was supporting him:
JUNE 2021 – 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 in May 2021 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.
So… Woodward knew of this treason and said nothing?
Woodward is a CIA “mockingbird media” stooge and has been for a long time. They leak information out to him and he writes a book to make money, while the CIA benefits from getting information they wanted published out there through his books.
Mark Levin made the same observation tonite on Hannity. He says they had to have known all this 2 or so months ago since the book is being printed now.
Also claimed it was a hallmark of Woodward books. Drop a big bomb a wk out the WAPO pushes.
Problem is, some of this story has been known since Jan 8. The Pelosi part at least. Not that the media would have batted an eye but they were still busy screaming “insurrection”
NO POINT IN POSTING HERE ANYMORE…THEY JUST KEEP REMOVING MY POSTS…
I GUESS IF YOUR A PATRIOT VETERAN THEY JUST DON’T WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU….
GOOD LUCK FOLKS..
Happy trails, and thank you for your service, Mack.
You should read the guideline before posting.
Well…look….you posted but its just whining…go figure.
Im a patriot veteran and have no issues sharing my thoughts here.
Emotions and opinions don’t mix well, even when they are one in the same.
I’ve gone deep down that rabbithole here at the Treehouse.
But I type what I believe is truth, and beneficial to the subject,
Which, facebook, twitter, you tube and even SB nation an nfl website( a proud moment), banned me, for presenting reports from front line doctors, no cussing or name calling, about the lies by the Medical profession, CDC, and the usual subjects, about the WooHan.
This story about Mills has been planted by the enemy, to hurt our great President.
With the influence of my USAF vet Dad, and my battle with this government to be a business owner, chasing the American dream, only to find out, I didn’t have a “I don’t have to compete” card to show insurance and the IRS. I learned a whole lot about the chosen few, who own our government,. They are still slavers. And Middle America is in the way of profit.
I make things to sell and fix things to service. In all my years I came to the conclusion, our working class is better at making things and fixing things than any where else in the world.
Was our work responsible responsible for our success? Most definitely, but the Founding Fathers left us with the greatest of gifts, ‘Individual Freedom’. It made the difference in our drive, innovation, learning and determination.
President Trump was the ‘first President’ to not only praise our abilities, he set out to empower them. I thought was the idea, behind, our government model.
With that empowerment, the US created close to 1/2 the worlds economy, by a group of human beings, who operated within the lines of virtue and conventional morality. We care about civilization, most important the people in it.
In theory, if some country wants to work with us, they would know 2 parts of the deal. We want them to succeed and we can be trusted. But we won’t work with anybody outside our window.
That window is to be the beacon of freedom, and human beings are the priority of our existence.
There are a lot of countries today, who wish, America was still working with them, under these terms today.
Remember, I never named a type of government, had any priority. Just, be nice and fair and quit killing each other., and we’ll work with you.
This illegitimate regime stands for the polar opposite of our government, and the deathrate and destruction just keeps escalating.
Don’t make assumptions..why don’t you write adrem and ask why your posts are being removed. Maybe they are not maybe you keep violating a guideline…contact them first before feeling offended…sometimes it is an innocent error.
Sounds like a real sychophant.
Like you Mack, my posts are frequently cancelled as well. I guess there’s a Sundance mutual admiration society thing going on… I continue to post. I refuse to be cancelled. //BTW, thanks for your service.
Contact AdRem. I have had posts disappear.
What would happen to all the Bills and Laws passed in 2021, If the AZ audit results produce a Decertification of the AZ electors based on voter fraud?
Would all the laws and bills passed become null and void? Would the Supreme Court be forced to confront the 2020 election fraud?
What would you do to prevent this from occurring?
What would happen to all the Bills and Laws passed in 2021, If the AZ audit results produce a Decertification of the AZ electors based on voter fraud?
Nothing.
1) That would not be enough to overturn the presidential election. The House has 5 AZ Dems and 4 AZ Reps. Since 2000, AZ has sent 9 Dems and 9 Reps to the House. Fraud would be unlikely to change the makeup enough to make a significant change. Kelly (D-AZ) beat McSally (R-AZ) by almost 80K. If big enough, it might change the Senate so let’s continue.
2) SCOTUS would be unlikely to return a verdict that would create such havoc. Picture if just one law, the third Covid stimulus, were cancelled. Can you imagine the government trying to reclaim 1,400 from everyone? A significant number of people don’t have that money anymore. Consider illegal immigration. They’re not going to move back on their own. That’s just in the US. Do you see the Taliban moving out in Afghanistan so we could have a redo? Even if SCOTUS were to cancel the Biden administration, they would throw in a statement maintaining every decision made to date (and who could point out to SCOTUS that it would be illegal to do so? They are the ultimate authority on what they can do. Congress could impeach the lot, but they don’t want the mess either.).
No. Whether you like it or not Biden legally is president of the United States, once the electors cast their votes. Even if he stole the election.
Ahhhhh … NOPE! Guessed again!
We the people need to know the truth about the stolen 2020 election. And let biden stay president. I’ve seen die hard, blue to the bone democrats turn against him.
I pray the election fraud of 2020 comes to light. Looks like it might.
Whoda thunk it a Military Coup against the Trump Presidency, big fish thrown under the bus. What’s next is someone going to question how a 59 yr old retired Chinese General billionaire was able to buy 200 sq. miles ranch land next to Laughlin Air Force Base it’s said to have a six thousand foot runway that he plans to increase to 10,000 ft. He also has plans for a government subsidized wind farm. This so called Industrialist owns a lot of real estate where the Uyghur concentration camps are located. Hey what could go wrong?
The Central Bankers/City of London Corp gets money real cheap. Then they share it with their criminal agents
Yes, as I said break the code. Milley and Pelosi were not talking about nuclear weapons, they were talking about the steal. The assurance to Pelosi was that Trump would not launch, meaning have any ability to reveal it. She was getting jittery, hence the ‘everyone in the WH is kissing his ass’ that his supporters would bust the plan open.
Interestingly, allied intelligence intercepted his call, that’s probably GCHQ Cheltenham, wonder what else they picked up over the year? Mossad meeting about Iran should be good with Biden. ‘So Joe, I can call you Joe, we are a little worried about Irans missile programme, allow us to deal with it or, well let’s say, we know Everything Joe. Remember Weinstein worked for us Joe.’
“Don’t be misled -you cannot mock the justice of God. You will harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life.”
Galatians 6:7-8
I wonder if Milley and his fellow traitors are familiar with this? Do they have any sense of shame I wonder. Caught dead to rights, will he at least follow the one right course left open to him and resign? Did he EVER care one whit about the people who served under him? My guess is he absolutely did not.
Resign hell. He should go home and put a bullet in his head.
Thousands need to do the same. Unfortunately, we know they will never do it.
Starting with Pelosi and McConnell. Soooooooo many traitors.
Did he know there was a strong chance he would have to fall on his sword someday, or is he just too thick to realize people way smarter and more powerful are calling the shots for him?
Ultimately who does Milley answer to? Not in his public position as Chair, but behind the scenes? Someone had to tell him to accept the position, as someone (probably same person) had to put the bug in Biden’s ear to nominate Milley. Find that one person and we have the tip of the spear in all this corruption. I understand there are many involved here, and it goes off shore in multiple directions. I’m wondering who’s the one person that ultimately calls the shots. US citizen? Public or private sector? Politician or military?
Do we still have enough patriots of high rank in the military to do a trial/court marshal here?
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Lloyd Austin.
Joint Chiefs of Staff are not in military operational chain-of-command. They hold an advisory role.
Yes. Advisory and influence. They get there because someone
wantsneeds them there to steer the Commander in Chief from a behind the scenes position.Obama
The source? Milley told Bob Woodward in his book. FX, newsmax, o.a.n. not even covering this yet. Because Milley is a republican. Trump was warned not to hire this fat frog, but he got won over again by flattery. He needs to wake up right now and use his gut, like he did when he first campaigned. Milley should be court- martialed and charged
It has been reported by all of those 3 networks.
Disinformation: In FACT the stations listed as NOT covering the Miley story ARE covering it. NewsMax had an interview with President Trump that is linked by The Gateway Pundit and news aggregators like Rantingly.com.
An explanation for what did not actually happen is then offered that’s not only untrue but if true, would be irrelevant, especially to CTH readers. ThEy diDn’T cOvEr iT cUz MiLleYs a RePuBliCaN. Fyi, he’s not.
Finally, a fantasy based psychoanalysis of President Trump is offered. He’S dEcEiVeD bY fLaTtErY. Lol.
In reality he’s famously immune to flattery. However it amuses him and is also useful when dunces imagine flattery can sway a long time global apex predator like him.
Perhaps find better pundits to parrot and/or pray rather than pass on misinfo and fact free guesses as facts.
President Trump says “it’s treason, if true” on Gen. Milley report
the source is probably Milley.
He is/was proud of his efforts and knows nothing will be done to him. By publicizing this, he threatens Obama and his people that Milley will reveal that he was acting on Obama’s orders.
This is Milley’s ace in the hole. He wants to assure his payments for his role in the coup.
I guess this answers the question why POTUS didn;t use the insurrection act? or declare martial law
they wouldn;t have followed his orders..
Don’t forget the request he made for 10k national guard was denied.
I am glad this came out. I had questions and now I don’t.
Thank you for being a big enough person to bring up this aspect and perspective. I have always felt that the manner people who have complained about 45’s decisions (and I don’t recall you doing so) lacked information.
I have always backed 45 because his behavior and decisions are consistent whether I have all the facts or not —- and we never do or should.
Yes
Since what Woodward alleges constitutes actual treason by Milley, it will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Either Milley committed treason, or Woodward engaged in egregious libel against Milley. Whichever it was, the lawyers will get rich from the fallout.
I would say break out the popcorn for this one, but I hope it’s more than just a puppet show that pans out. There needs to be long prison sentences handed down. Frightening to think there’s this level of corruption so high up in our federal government. More frightening to realize it didn’t just happen over night. This sh!t’s been brewing for a long time.
And CNN and the WaPo were the press agents of the Coup of State.
I have one nagging doubt about all of this: It was written by Bob Woodward.
Bob Woodward has haunted America for many years. Has his work been for the good? You be the judge.
Your highlight of “insurrection” and “projection” in the same paragraph…..mmmmarvelous!!!
Get the popcorn, its only starting to get good.
I don’t think Sundance is paraphrasing a book. He/she is extrapolating and triangulating with other source material and plain observation. The book is intended by the Democrats to scapegoat Milley to take the heat from King Joseph of Scrantonia.
I thought he was from Scrotumia?
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Milley is not an “independent thinker.
Re Vindmann et al. look also at Mark Esper and the connex with Senate and Deep State. Remember the misery that Trump faced trying to get a Secy Defense appointed. Two appointees were encouraged to drop out.
I do not think that Milley comes up with original ideas. He carries out others’ orders. He parrots back loudly his understanding of what the agendas are. He is the perfect patsy.
It was said on Faux that Milley authorized the shot that killed the 7 innocent children…If true that is and even worse crime.
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Chiefs of Staff do not have command authority. They do not give these kinds of orders. They advise and handle logistics. Orders come down from civilian command to active forces.
FAUX jumped on the Get Milley bandwagon already? Interesting that they want their normie Republican viewers to buy tHe miLiTaRy iS EviL narrative so quickly.
Also interesting that this dropped when the CIA State Departments Blinken was being questioned by the Senate. Did they need to bump Blinken, State and the CIA off the news cycle?
“President Trump was executing a foreign policy, a clear doctrine of sorts, where national security was achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power.”
More than twice a day, for four years, my wife and I would high five and proclaim-“WINNING!”
We miss that
Same here. ?
Plexaderm commercials.
Why would the head of the military, with piglosi and bidet as allies, need to resign?
Piglosi should be able to make McConnell get his rabble in line
Because military/pentagon/White House = team #1.
Senate/CIA/deep state = team #2.
And when team one and team two start pointing fingers at each other the fun begins. They will consume each other in an attempt to survive. Somebody’s got to take the fall.
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The head of the military is Lloyd Austin.
Treason only has one reward
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And GEN Flynn was colluding with Russia…
Need some grains of salt here.
Agreed. President Trump, during his NewsMax interview prefaced his response by saying “IF its true” ie it might NOT be true. He pointed out Woodward is a well known”sleeze”.
He then “wondered” if the calls in question were recorded. Lol. He’s knows that they were.
Btw I love when he “plays dumb” and “innocently” asks questions that cause light bulbs to go off.
I enjoy noticing who picks up on the opening Trump makes with these “questions” and who pretends that they hEaRd nOtHiNg, hoping citizens didn’t/don’t catch on to what was said. Very telling.
Keep in mind the State Department and DoD both have the scope of foreign policy, but from a different direction. There are bound to be some hostilities between the two. How many DoD people have been killed by groups State arranged weapons for? How often has the DoD been left with the short stick in cleaning up after State failed? On the other side, State considers it a failure when the DoD must be involved. To them, DoD represents muscle bound gorillas ham-fisted meddling in their domain. (This is one reason I think the decision to abandon Bagram instead of Kabul ultimately came from State. Each side would prefer running the evac out of their own territory.)
People are looking for an Afghan scapegoat. Blaming Trump hasn’t worked (although they continue to try). That leaves State vs DoD. Biden will not bite the bullet. At one point, DoD said they tried to warn Biden about a quick Afghan fall. The blame for continuiing the backwards evac falls to State. The latest Milley dumps could have easily been coordinated by state to scapegoat Milley. How will Milley respond?
Stock up your popcorn supply.
Maybe State and DoD will see a common target in Biden. It wouldn’t be enough to remove Biden (which leaves us with Kamala) but would reduce his political capital further and ability to dictate.
I bet the State Department wanted to abandon Bagram and evacuate from Kabul, because it was the capital. They did not care about whether it made tactical sense or not.
That phone call to China rep and China’s intelligence fear would make a whole lot of sense if the election hack was ran through Chinese systems.
Deep state was assuring China’s fear in case things went south and they were caught / probably to avoid them bailing off risk base. Using the top mil man to do it would prove to a wavering China they actually had the juice to contain the blow back in such. Then the follow up after Jan 6 to let them know they succeeded in holding that power clear skys.
HIGH TREASON. Everyone down to middle management needs to be pink slipped all alphabet, FULL AUDIT of everything gov funded that should net the Politicks and big corp big wigs, major fed civ groups down to middle management then Audit will weed the rest, mil is a little sticky everyone based out of DC or linked to that power should be forced retirement. After that constant scrutiny and liberal firing of anyone that doesn’t get its US first only ole school meaning pre WW2 ethics and all else/others is enemies of the state to be pushed out and or destroyed.
Trump lost as soon as he started trying to work within the system with the system. He should have been the persona from TV mass firings weekly daily. Can’t get Senate approval fine fire down to viable candidates that take over in the stay.
Everyone wanted President Trump gone and normies, who were his base of support did NOT yet understand the depth of corruption in DC. He was being investigated as a TRAITOR and Putin installed Puppet by the Senate, House, FBI and DOJ with the open support of the CIA. Mueller did not end his witch hunt until after the 2018 elections. Intentionally. And then the Democrat House began prepping for Impeachment.
If President Trump had done what armchair generals still imagine would have been super duper smart, then President Trump would have been quickly impeached AND removed. Is that what you wanted to happen?
Guess we’ll never know. Perhaps, Trump being removed from office would’ve been the spark that united patriots to take back our country.
I’m in doubt there will ever be another spark, as big as Trump, that could instigate such a take back now.
Imagine how well Trump’s term would have gone if the State Department supported his brand of statesmanship instead of undercutting him. I suppose trying to buy friendship is easier than actually being statesmen. The results certainly aren’t as good.
Trump in a statement is saying that this is fake news. My understanding is that another country has a recording of at least one of Milleys calls. This whole episode seems true because we watched Milley in action since the election and we saw his insubordination. Not sure why Trump is giving him a pass.
Link 45’s statement please.
Seems to me that CNN is praising Milley. They see him as a hero who stood up to an “unhinged President.” Not sure if this is CNN trying to bring down Milley or CNN, given their Trump Derangement Syndrome, assuming that everyone will see Milley as a hero.
“CNN analyst Jaime Gangel argued in favor of Miley saying “Milley may be criticized for what some may think was overstepping his authority, but according to Woodward & Costa he felt he couldn’t trust Trump and that he needed to take any and all necessary precautions to prevent him from doing something dangerous.”
“What [Milley] did was ensure the guardrails were in place. So I give him high marks for this based on what’s described in the book,” CNN analyst Mark Hertling added.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/reporters-democrats-defend-gen-milley-contacting-china-top-general
That’s my take. Trump became so unhinged following the election Milley feared the unthinkable. That Trump would, for no reason at all, launch an attack on China. The noble and heroic Milley knowingly went outside and broke the COC in order to save democracy and our cherished, though flawed, US of A.
The left eats this kind of stuff up. If what the Dems and commentariat are saying give any indication, the statuary and busts are being cast.
You should seriously start writing the history of Trump 1.0 (2016-2020). This is awesome stuff. Very incisive, very refreshing.
Woodward ‘s source is 200 anonymous people?
Guess we can all write books if that is the standard.
I suppose they were saving this story to blackmail Milley but decided it was more useful to dump it out now. Like the story about Manchins daughter’ making money off of some illegal thing. Looky , what we can do to you with what we know. Milley must no longer be useful.
If Milley does not sue authors for defamation, he’s guilty, period. Discovery is needed. I don’t trust the courts but otherwise it is Miley’s word against the authors. I also obviously don’t trust a congressional investigation.
This is one sick mother f_cker. If this is true he should face a hearing with the Senate and then be Court Marshalled to face UCMJ charges. The a civilian court to face charges of treason. That’s life in prison. Swear to him. That’s Sick. One thing it shows is that you never trust any officer blindly that is a full colonel or above. All they want is that next promotion. Milley, McMaster, Mattis, Patreus, Mc Crystal all lying bastards. Pelosi also should be charged for her part. Criminals
Why would CNN and WAPO leak anti Marxist shit? It’s fake news, that’s why! They are hiding someone…probably pelosi or schumer
Also – Milley let Bergdahl skate.
May I offer another take on Milley (the coup + CCP factors):
https://www.trevorloudon.com/2021/09/maleficent-mark-milley/
In 2016, Gen Milley traveled to Beijing and congratulated Gen Li Zuocheng on being appointed by Xi Jinping as the head of the People’s Liberation Army
In 2015 the idea of biological warfare was taken to the next level by then-president of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, He Fuchu, who argued in an essay that biotechnology would be the deciding factor in any future war. Biological warfare was not just permissible. It would one of the keys to victory. The author subsequently became vice president of the PLA’s Academy of Military Sciences – the People’s Liberation Army’s highest level research institution. What began as an idea for a new approach to warfare had now become dogma.
https://accountabilityinitiative.org/paying-people-to-kill-us-chinas-focus-on-biological-warfare/
The Army chief of staff kicked off his Asia tour with a trip to China from Aug. 16 to 17, where he met with the People’s Liberation Army ground force commander Gen. Li Zuocheng and participated in a round-table discussion with researchers at the PLA’s Academy of Military Sciences, the country’s leading defense think tank.
https://www.army.mil/article/173852/army_chief_of_staff_wraps_up_asia_pacific_tour
TRUMP just put out a statement on Milley:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-dumba-milley-actions-should-be-taken-immediately-tried-for-treason
President Trumps statement started with the cautionary caveat, “IF TRUE”.
Maybe they were all worried that PDJT would find out that China helped with the steal, and that is why they were particularly worried about him doing something against them.
Their wanting to protect China makes me wonder even more about their role in the steal.
China’s role.
Maybe that’s also why Biden and team are going so easy on them. And are basically giving them Afghanistan.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
It’s always dangerous when unelected military leaders like Milley decide they should secretly undermine and subvert the policies of the elected President. There’s a constitutional process to do it if necessary. This, by contrast, is pure Deep State abuse…
The same employees of media corporations who spent four years cheering unelected military officials for ignoring Trump’s orders, undermining them, concealing classified information from him, etc were the same who claimed only conspiratorial idiots believe the US has a Deep State.
If you’re one of those historically ignorant people who got convinced by CNN and NYT op-ed writers that “Deep State” is a term invented in 2017 by Sean Hannity rather than a staple of (left-wing) foreign policy scholarship for decades, use whatever term you like but this is it.
5:42 PM · Sep 14, 2021
Then there is Team 3 – The American People.
Team 3 is disenfranchised from this representative tug of war.
With a few exceptions, the political establishment does not seem to care what Team 3 thinks.
It is also transparently obvious that laws and criminal prosecutions, are only ever enforced upon Team 3. And harshly so.
Above all, I am most sickened by the utter lawlessness and evasion of accountability pervading this corrupt charade. The debasement never ends, because the ringleaders are never punished.
I do not share the belief that the Cabal does not care what Team 3, which includes states, think or do.
I monitor Democrat, Establishment and Leftist sites. They all seem to care very much about Team 3 and in fact, seem very upset by what they’re seeing Team 3 do everywhere. I see what they’re seeing but it makes me smile rather than seethe.
Imho the greatest risk Team 3 faces is demoralization ie buying into the professionally produced and coordinated 24/7 psyop attacks on our hearts and minds.
We are on the precipice. They want us to despair and jump to our death rather than turn and fight. Hence the hopium campaign to mock hope as being for dopes.
Personally, I’ve never felt more hopeful, ever. Its all or nothing time. Do or die time. What an exciting time to be alive.
Our side really needs a hacker. It would be interesting to know, among many other things, how much Milley will receive for falling on his sword for the team.
Confused … I thought T1 and T2 were in a blame game war against each other?
But this event insinuates that T1 and T2 are working together to reflect the blame onto a T2 member Milley, not Biden. Or is this an exchange of Blinken (T1) for Milley (T2)?
I don’t get it, if the 4th branch is more powerful than T2, why not just take out JB with him?
And what about Naomi?…..
Or rather, what about Gina Haspel? Is this not a hit on her? I guess she’s expendable (out of office now) in the desperation to get rid of Milley and take the heat off Biden
What bothers me the most is that the US military has allowed him do this without repercussions. His rank should be remove from him and he should face charges for collusion with a foreign enemy against the legitimate Commander in Chief.
It stands to reason, therefore, that he in fact was engaging in activity that undermines the country and it’s Constitution.
Re: J6. One thing that annoys me is calling J6 the peaceful transfer of power. To my mind, that happens on Inauguration Day and antifa attempted to interfere with it in 2017.
Have not heard or read anyone with my point of view
Confessions of an old military/civilian cop!
In light of all the activities of the “Left/Progressives” and many other groups seemingly bent on destroying everything cops and soldiers have/are ‘supposedly’ spent/spending their careers and in far too many cases giving/gave their lives defending, can you guess which of the following lessons learned were first presented to the public in 1989 by a soldier following 26 years in the army and in his third year as a civilian police chief?
A Soldier/Cop’s Lessons Learned
*Soldiers (ground combat soldiers, that is) do not fight first and foremost for their country, the flag, motherhood, girls back home, nor apple pie! Before all else, soldiers engaged in ground combat fight for their fellow soldiers and their unit. Why? Because in every war/police action/whatever including WWII the strategies and tactics adopted by mostly incompetent/corrupt military and civilian managers (notice I said mangers not leaders) were designed to maximize the profits of the military/industrial/political complex with little regard for the those personnel charged with employing the same.
* The Seven C’s of Leadership according to a survey of 1646 Vietnam era ground combat veterans listed of the order of their importance (according to the vets) were; Candor, Competence, Consistency, Commitment, Courage, Compassion, and Courtesy. The reason the soldiers in the survey chose the word “candor” is because to them candor encompasses both omission and co-mission. To a combat soldier lack of absolute candor, be it co-mission or omission, are equal sins! In short, soldiers expect/demand absolute candor from their leaders before all else. Note: The democrats have proven they are masters of co-mission, while republicans have proven they are masters of omission!
* The American people are the most effectively lied to people in modern times thanks primarily to politicians, bureaucrats, academicians, and the media.
* Arrogance coupled with ignorance equals stupidity.
* The greatest threats to the American people are the corrupt and/or incompetent politicians/bureaucrats/academicians found at every level of government/academia, and the majority of the American so-called media.
* Most of the politicians, bureaucrats, academicians, and media types I have encountered during my years as a soldier/cop I most kindly refer to as; self-serving, witless, cowards. Note: I originally refereed to the aforementioned folks as; “Self-serving, witless, cowardly, pissants!” After retiring to the deep woods I dropped pissants once becoming acquainted with the little fellows in that I learned that pissants are not self-serving nor witless, and certainly not cowards!
* The American Profession of Arms and our brothers/sisters in the Blue have failed to protect the American people from all of their enemies, both foreign and ‘most especially’ domestic.
* There are only two primary requirements to be a career soldier and/or cop in America. One must be smart enough to do the work and dumb enough to take the job.
* American soldiers and police officers must in addition to mastering all of their professionally mandated tasks learn to accomplish the same with at least one arm tied behind their backs and their vision impaired 50% or more.
* After carefully watching the whole of the political class since May of 1960, I can say without reservation that most of the group will sell their souls and our bodies just to remain in power.
* Want to see what the United States of America will look like if the left takes control of the government? Take your pick, New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or the complete packages; California, New York, Illinois, etc, etc, etc…..
* If the so-called Progressive movement continues unchecked a number of able veterans are going to be presented with a challenge/decision. Are the American people worth another drop of our sweat and/or our blood?
* The end goal of the elites of this world is not (nor ever has been) socialism, communism, or capitalism. The elites of world have used all manner of ideologies, religions, terrorism, brute force, etc. to drive the masses/peasants/serfs/whatever in one direction. That direction leads to one of the oldest forms of human control ever employed in the history of mankind. That form of human control is, Feudalism!
Soldier/Cop/Grunt, Retired
PS These lessons learned were first developed as the prelude of a book titled: “Rape, Pillage, Plunder, America You’ve Been Had!”. DOD has refused four separate request to publish the book citing still classified information contained therein. Information that names many sitting politicians during the Carter years as subjects in the international drug trade. Three of those politicians (subjects) went on to serve as President of the United States.
Treason is Treason and it seems to be in vogue amongst the socialist democrats, but in my mind it just makes them open season for all Patriotic Americans! They should be tried and Executed for it!
The deep state accuses others of what they are guilty of.
Like impeaching President Trump for colluding with the Russians over the pee pee dossier, when everything contained in that most likely was about Hunter Biden.
This revelation that they feared Trump would start a nuclear war if removed from power is most likely a warning to those who are exposing this stolen presidency and the nuclear war consequences if they continue.
Remember Biden once said you would need F15’s and nuclear weapons to remove him.
Miley should resign along with McConnell