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flashman13

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22. Wait! WTF By ordering all generals and admirals to Quantico essentially decapitated the entire U.S. commad structure
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 05:58 PM
Sep 2025

world wide and put the country in great danger. What better time for an adversary to stage an attack than while our forces are running on idle (while the boss is away their no. 2 is very seldom willing to make consequential decisions) with their commanders off being lectured by a drunkard.

Here is a historical tidbit. On June 6, 1944 almost all of the top German command staffs were away from the western front because they thought the weather was too bad for the Allies to stage an attack. Some were at conferences. Some were partying in Paris. Rommel was in Germany celebrating his wife's birthday. The fact that Rommel was absent was especially disastrous for the Germans. If he had been in Normandy in the early hours when the first paratroopers arrived he would have put the entire coast on alert. And even more importantly, when the first landing forces arrived, he was the one general officer that would have ignored Hitler's standing orders that armored forces could only be deployed on his orders. Rommel would have immediately ordered all of the available Panzer forces and SS formations to Normandy while Hitler slept in his drugged stupor. Rommel's bold move would have stood a good chance of driving the Allies back into the sea. The Germans would have been the victor on the Longest Day. History would have unfolded in a completely different way. The Russian's westward march would have stopped at the English Channel.

Trump and his idiots are putting all of us in profound danger.

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Hegseth loves having his ass kissed, much like the orange pedo in Chief... wcmagumba Sep 2025 #1
Just gives him an excuse to order more beer kegs newdeal2 Sep 2025 #2
oh, but jaymac Sep 2025 #30
Follow lawful orders only and your Oath BOSSHOG Sep 2025 #3
What happens to the generals who won't do what he says MadameButterfly Sep 2025 #6
Wait!!! markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #4
Yeah, no. TommyT139 Sep 2025 #5
Here's my comment, and in memory of Ozzie too; D. Spaulding Sep 2025 #7
I'm thinking "Crazy Train." Intractable Sep 2025 #20
He's desperate to kill people. 'return to lethality' spanone Sep 2025 #8
Trump will address the assembled top brass... sop Sep 2025 #9
It's just a performance put on by a former Fox "News" puppet for an audience of one. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #10
He will forever be paying for that military parade fiasco... travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #12
Hell no, we won't go. Sequoia Sep 2025 #11
Ministry of War wants a new fight song Torchlight Sep 2025 #13
Warrior Ethos includes taking care of your fellow "warriors". haele Sep 2025 #14
Hegseth's "warrior ethos"... collecting trash and spreading mulch. Norrrm Sep 2025 #15
Never group up, keep your interval. pwb Sep 2025 #16
That's what I was thinking.... Military installations all over the world have no senior officers on duty? questionseverything Sep 2025 #27
They will do anything to distract from the StarryNite Sep 2025 #17
What they say and what is true B.See Sep 2025 #18
Have Trump and Hegseth decided to declare war on the world? Lonestarblue Sep 2025 #19
I'll translate ... aggiesal Sep 2025 #21
Wait! WTF By ordering all generals and admirals to Quantico essentially decapitated the entire U.S. commad structure flashman13 Sep 2025 #22
What a childish asshole that guy is. I can't imagine that the best... NNadir Sep 2025 #23
He should wear his Captain Obvious Uniform Turbineguy Sep 2025 #24
where is DOGE on this WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE Skittles Sep 2025 #25
They're going to drink shots off his tattoos Blues Heron Sep 2025 #26
Senior commanders have to fly in from all over the world for a goddamn pep rally? tanyev Sep 2025 #28
little man pete Godot51 Sep 2025 #29
So... a multimillion dollar photo-op C_U_L8R Sep 2025 #31
Does he really snowybirdie Sep 2025 #32
MaddowBlog-White House pretends Pete Hegseth's mystery meeting is normal. It really isn't. LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #33
I wonder if skin color pwb Sep 2025 #34
Yes. No doubt. MineralMan Sep 2025 #35
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