The real story here is that the Deputy Defense Secretary was prepared to act in his place this week and that Austin was expected to return to full duties today.
In other words the US Secretary of Defense was incapacitated this week.
Who allowed the Sec Def to get elective surgery during the brink of WWIII?
They keep Austin’s medical problem and status secret because an enemy like China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and Hamas could get it in their heads that Biden and his associates are leaving America wide open to attack and being outmaneuvered in the theaters of war.
As happens on a normal day.
“In other words the US Secretary of Defense was incapacitated this week.”
just HOW elective was it, during this very heightened period of alert??
If they were trying to tell the masses ‘not to worry, it was just ‘elective,’
they missed the very obvious point that if it WAS elective, the masses will be very PISSED that he was so cavalier to chose this time to do it.