Posted on 01/08/2026 7:09:42 AM PST by simpson96
Imagine a chairman of the Joint Chiefs who hated the president so deeply, who was so sure he was right and the president was wrong, and was so addled by a deep derangement syndrome that he would tremulously call our adversaries to assure them that whatever that crazy president said, he'd have their back … to maintain "strategic stability," you understand.
He'd be the check on the president. He could engage in "freelance diplomacy" and always maintain a virtual veto over the president's geopolitical moves and even call the opposition party's top official to give them talking points.
Would his secret phone calls to U.S. adversaries "exceed his responsibilities as the country’s leading military officer, undermine the powers of the president and set a dangerous precedent for American civil-military relations"?
Who's the crazy one again?
Mark Milley did all that. The man who was more concerned about wokeness, "white rage," DEI, men wearing skirts in the military, and the feelings of our adversaries did all of that and worse.
Now imagine this guy, Joint Chiefs chairman, General Dan "Raizin'" Caine, calling Maduro, Iran, China, and Russia to tell them that we were planning to take away their gas credit cards and ignore the president's game of, if not 4D chess, Jenga, as Charlie put it recently.
Yet, that's pretty much what General Mike Milley did to President Trump 45. He defanged and disarmed the biggest dealmaker in the business to frame himself as the only adult in the room. He subsumed Trump's role and, in his phone calls with the People's Liberation Army commander, assured him that if that crazy president started talking about nuking the ChiComs, he'd be Milley's first call.
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I just can’t believe that Milley is not being prosecuted for histraitorous actions!
…traitorous…
Milley was a terrible CJCS for a lot of reasons, but this isn't one of them. Telling a nuclear-armed potential adversary that "we don't intend on launching an unprovoked attack on you in the next couple of days" hardly threatens national security, or puts troops in any kind of danger.
“Telling a nuclear-armed potential adversary that “we don’t intend on launching an unprovoked attack on you in the next couple of days” hardly threatens national security, or puts troops in any kind of danger.”
My problem with that has always been he did it without the knowledge of the POTUS IIRC.
If that is not accurate please correct me.
I learned a new word! It must mean historically traitorous!
Milley was pardoned by the Quisling Puppet Biden (or the auto pen).
POTUS Trump needs to have this investigated. Why would Milley need a pardon?
Glad I could help educate you!…rolling eyes.
What really surprised me was to read that both the NYT and the Washington Post knew about the plan to abduct Maduro, but withheld reporting about it!
Why? So that they would not endanger American Troops.
This, according to “Real News Network, Jan 6, 2026
Exactly!
Mark Milley did all that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they even raised their alert levels. They must have been saying WTF?
Considering the circumstance, why is that a problem? Again, what Milley did was completely irrelevant unless Trump was planning on actually attacking China in his last days in office. It posed no harm or threat of harm to the U.S. or to U.S. military personnel.
If someone can explain how it did pose such a threat, I'd love to hear it. High-level discussions between military people of major powers to avoid potentially catastrophic misunderstandings/confrontations that neither party wanted are not unheard of. It has happened with ship movements, missiles, etc..
What Milley was doing -- correctly, in my opinion -- was advising the Chinese not to misread or respond aggressively to any actions being taken by the U.S. military domestically. Nobody would even have known about it if Milley himself had not gone public with it, which was stupid on his part.
Like I said, there are a lot of other reasons not to like Milley. I just don't believe this is one of them.
I do think the amusing irony of all this is that Trump's own SecDef and then-CJCS told him not to appoint Milley to that position, and he ignored their recommendation.
sanguine
PhD
If the country falls into a civil war requiring our intervention and leading to yet more invaders to our country, then it would appear we would have been better off with a Milley-style headsup.
Milley’s got to sleep so comfy at night knowing he has the auto pen pardon as a lasting image of his service.
He was bragging that he was outside the chain of command.
He was limiting the deterrent authority of the CiC and mocking the President of the United States.
It was absolutely outrageous and a violation of his sworn duty.
Trump is his boss. The chess master, who may ir may not have intentions to attack China. We know sometimes he uses both carrots and sticks and exaggerating his asking price so he get what he wants.
Milley is his assistant in implementing his strategies. He could not read his boss” mind. nobody can. By secretly talking to the Chinese, he altered Trump’s strategy. It is not in his place to do so.
Wasn’t the implication that Milley would not allow the President to launch the missiles, he’d prevent the military from executing his orders because Orange man bad?
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