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Pete Hegseth asked U.S. Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey to retire in October after Holsey expressed concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s boat bombings in the Caribbean, according to a new report.
On Wednesday, the _Wall Street Journal_published a report that cited two unnamed Pentagon officials, who said Hegseth asked the admiral to step down in “a de facto ouster that was the culmination of months of discord between Hegseth and the officer” after Holsey expressed “concerns about the legality of lethal strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.”
Shortly after, Hegseth announced that Holsey – the commander of U.S. Southern Command – would be retiring.
I doubt that all these high-ranking officers who have been forced out because they won’t follow illegal or just plain stupid orders, are just hanging out at home, sipping drinks on the veranda, as the nation they dedicated their lives to protecting just burns down around us.
What scum like MAGA never understand, is that when you fire your best people for bad reasons, there is a good chance that at least some of them will band together to fight back. By getting rid of his most moral, most experienced officers, he has weakened his own side, and strengthened his own enemy.
If this country finally comes down to a Civil War, the Patriots will have the competent military leadership on their side, while the MAGAs will just have the losers who think they are right, because they are too stupid to know how stupid they are.
The US hasn’t needed protection from anything in a long time. What they’ve been protecting is the US’ economic interests, spending trillions on armaments to attack those who can’t defend themselves while people back home die of curable illnesses. They’re not your paladins, they’re the enforcers of your ruling class.
The dumbest thing they can do is create an army of people with nothing left to lose.
And led by competent experienced military leaders, with an axe to grind
MAGAs biggest problem is that they are virtuosically ignorant, and love to show it off. None of these people seem to realize how the political careers of tyrants almost always end. They have no historical knowledge at all, or they’d realize that their biggest role models - Hitler, Mussolini, Ghadafi, Ceauscescu, and nearly every other authoritarian - did NOT die of old age in their sleep.
These people are too stupid to understand that they are staging their own demise. Dunning-Kruger runs strong in MAGA.
And yet ironically it’s staring them in the face every minute in the virginia state seal.
“Sic Semper Tyrannis” – Thus always to Tyrants.
Their stupidity knows no bounds.