[TBP]

They regard any order from teh Trump administration as ipso facto illegal.

[Albion Wilde]

US tradition has insisted that the chain of command runs from the president through the secretary of defense to uniformed officers, and that disputes over legality are resolved by military lawyers and ultimately by the judiciary, not by rank and file troops reading headlines. When members of Congress encourage service members to see themselves as autonomous judges of legality in such contexts, they do not strengthen the rule of law. They transform every politically controversial deployment into a potential referendum inside the barracks.

[Albion Wilde]

The six lawmakers describe themselves as unbowed by threats and exhort Americans to show moral clarity. They insist that having the troops’ backs means supporting those who refuse illegal orders. The implication is that obedience to disputed Trump directives is not just legally risky, it is morally suspect.

Any and every conversation with a liberal ends up with them somehow accusing you of being not just wrong, but evil. Disgusting hypocrisy is their playbook.

[Albion Wilde]

There is a principled way to educate service members about unlawful orders, through professional military education, chain of command instruction, and clear legal guidance about true atrocities. There is also an unprincipled way, which is to drop political messaging into their TikTok feeds and hope they begin to view contested domestic deployments and controversial strikes as de facto illegal. The Slotkin Kelly video sits uncomfortably close to most definitely embodies the second model.

Fixed it.

[Albion Wilde]

This excellent essay is wordy and repetitive; but when you get to the last paragraph, you see how painstaking is was for the writer to proceed step by step through the fog of our past 100+ years of lib/prog radical indoctrination against Constitutional command hierarchy to arrive at the bottom line:

...sedition and treason require a fair trial and serious punishment—even capital punishment.

Anything less is suicidal.