Thread by @TheLastRefuge2

Some had the Joint Chief' pegged correctly when they pointed out how the Pentagon never removed Vindman from his WH post (NSC) after the accusation against the Commander in Chief. It was the first major red flag.

2) RED FLAG #2 Milley never engaged when Navy Secretary Richard Spencer attempted to blackmail the President over a pardon for Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.

theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/11/23/stu…

3) RED FLAG #3 Joint Chief Chairman Milley, 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.

theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/29/u-s…

4) Col Douglas Macgregor expressed his own suspicions about the U.S. military attack in Iraq and Syria that paralleled our reaction. Macgregor stated he believed President Trump was being intentionally and “skillfully, misinformed”.

theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/12/3…

5) In the big picture it was not difficult to figure out why the Pentagon would be opposed to Trump. During the Trump campaign and early administration President Trump’s expressed foreign policy was viewed by NATO alliance members as a threat.

6) President Trump dared to tell them their “cold war mentality” was outdated.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.

7) The same type of common sense perspective that startled the NATO alliance members applied internally to the U.S. military.

8) 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

9) Toward the threat from North Korea the primary (traditional) military response became the contingency plan; President Trump engaged in economic leverage, not military…. and it worked.

10) 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).

11) In the Trump era the President was telling the Pentagon where and when to position; and then asked them for ‘contingency’ preparation. Decades of Pentagon-centric foreign policy was lessened by an entirely new geopolitical approach based on an economic strategy.

12) This was, in essence, the Trump Doctrine.

13) Take away power, or worse yet, stop using military power, and the leaders within the system start to sense their institution becoming functionally obsolescent. Overlay this military fear with pre-existing ideological differences and the situation gets worse.

14) Unfortunately, like all other issues in the era of hyper-polarization, normally liberal democrats would be alarmed w/ military leadership going rogue with their own agenda. However, as long as that agenda was anti-Trump, the political-left are now okay with it.

15) 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…

16) 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.

17) Remember,… the impeachment effort was only a “soft-coup” until the uniformed military showed up.

18) 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 leftist ideologues are good at is projection.

19) When the order comes down to go door to door to collect citizens’ firearms, or to arrest citizens for wrong thoughts, our military will likely follow orders. But perhaps they should soften us up by starting first with door-to-door vaccination questioning...

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