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B.See

(8,867 posts)
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:56 PM Sep 2025

So, Is HegsDEATH Summoning All the Top Brass

to kiss Trump's ring (by swearing allegiance and obedience) or his ass?

'Confusion and alarm' at Pentagon as Hegseth summons top brass to impromptu meeting - Rawstory via MSN

An unusual directive demanding all U.S. generals and admirals report to Washington, D.C. for a meeting is raising alarm, according to a report.

The order, which comes from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, "applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers."

According to The Washington Post, the demand is "sowing confusion and alarm," particularly given the administration's indiscriminate firing of several top military leaders in its first 100 days in office.
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So, Is HegsDEATH Summoning All the Top Brass (Original Post) B.See Sep 2025 OP
Or maybe 3I/ATLAS PCIntern Sep 2025 #1
I refuse to wear tin foil hats, but this concentration of military leadership and experience Attilatheblond Sep 2025 #2
It SMELLS, alright. B.See Sep 2025 #3
This feels like a loyalty purge SmittyWerben Sep 2025 #4
precisely. B.See Sep 2025 #5
Smitty, can you give us a link? brakester Sep 2025 #10
Oh, I see. I pledge allegiance to Donald Trump... ananda Sep 2025 #6
A prep for deployment... B.See Sep 2025 #7
Night of the Tiny Hands C_U_L8R Sep 2025 #8
I assume he is a shit show Johonny Sep 2025 #9
This is not good Wifes husband Sep 2025 #11
Looks like my post (no 7) above was B.See Sep 2025 #12

Attilatheblond

(9,243 posts)
2. I refuse to wear tin foil hats, but this concentration of military leadership and experience
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:04 PM
Sep 2025

is NOT a sound idea.

There are officers below Flag Level who could have very fascist leanings and as nuts as the idiots in the Trump Mob. Clearing out the flag officers who 'hold the zealots back' could well spell disaster for democracy.

Sane security procedures would NEVER allow all those flag officers to be in one place at one time, too big a target! This has the smell of a coup.

SmittyWerben

(830 posts)
4. This feels like a loyalty purge
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:09 PM
Sep 2025

This is described in Project 2025. Get rid of top tier personnel who are not loyal to the White House.

ananda

(35,514 posts)
6. Oh, I see. I pledge allegiance to Donald Trump...
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:11 PM
Sep 2025

And to the Russians for which he serves...

C_U_L8R

(49,534 posts)
8. Night of the Tiny Hands
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:16 PM
Sep 2025

Might be a purge but it will flop, like most inadequate Trump efforts.

Brass may want to bring their sidearms.

Johonny

(26,617 posts)
9. I assume he is a shit show
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:17 PM
Sep 2025

And the top brass doesn't respect him and thus he needs to show dominance that they won't feel.

B.See

(8,867 posts)
12. Looks like my post (no 7) above was
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:26 PM
Sep 2025

Last edited Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:03 PM - Edit history (1)

the more accurate prediction. Trump is prepping for war. Only not against FOREIGN adversaries.

Trump tells Hegseth to use inner cities as military 'training grounds' for war - Rawstory

Training grounds my ass.

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