Posted on 09/17/2021 3:40:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
This week's deeply unsettling revelation of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley's alleged late Trump administration-era perfidy, bordering on high treason, is but one glaring fusillade in a years-long crusade by America's decrepit ruling class to condemn and ultimately subjugate us "deplorables," "wrong-thinkers" and all others with a conservative or traditionalist worldview. It is a shot across the bow in that roiling cold domestic conflict, and a clarion call as to the relevant stakes. It is also a brazen assault on one of the most rudimentary defining features of America's constitutional order -- an assault that exposes the lie that the ruling class and its left-wing echo chamber denizens care one whit about the very "democracy" they invariably claim to cherish.
To recap, a leak of a forthcoming book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, "Peril," claims that two days after the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, Milley was so bothered by former President Donald Trump's demeanor and conduct that he deemed it necessary to take unilateral action outside the formal chain of command. Specifically, Milley allegedly convened a rogue meeting with senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's de facto war room, to tell them not to accept military orders from anyone unless he was personally involved.
In effect, Milley, haunted by hysterical cable news-induced nightmares and caving to delusions of grandeur, took impetuous action to cut out the commander in chief of the U.S. Armed Forces himself from the formal chain of command. He did so, we are made to believe, out of fear the lame-duck president might launch a high-scale attack or nuclear weapon strike, perhaps against China.
Although the qualifier "allegedly" is perhaps strictly necessary to describe Milley's actions, it is worth noting that Milley's office responded to the leak by issuing a nonapology "apology." Milley's "calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping with (his) duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability," the response statement from spokesperson Col. Dave Butler read.
There was, in short, no denial, which all but assuredly means the allegations from "Peril" are true. And since the statement, President Joe Biden has resisted manifold calls for Milley's resignation, including one from Milley's former boss, former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, and even one from the notorious anti-Trump former National Security Council staffer Alexander Vindman. He has instead pledged that he has "great confidence" in Milley.
There could not possibly be a clearer example of how much the American ruling class is drunk on power and of how little it cares for any and all obstacles standing in the way of its accumulation and exercise of that power.
It also just so happens that, in this instance, those obstacles take the form of the quintessential defining feature of what usually separates a democracy or a republican form of governance from a dictatorship: ultimate civilian control of the military. In undermining that ultimate civilian control, Milley and his apologists are playing with fire. How bitterly ironic, too, that the same left-wingers who opposed Trump on ostensibly "fascist" or "authoritarian" grounds while simultaneously preaching about the imperative to save our American "democracy" are now the ones who, seemingly without fail, have taken to defending a Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who has taken a blowtorch to the very definition of "democracy."
Milley is, of course, the same man who has openly defended the merits of studying critical race theory in the military and, in general, seems far more preoccupied with preening for holier-than-thou wokesters than he does with ensuring the U.S. Armed Forces are adequately prepared to hunt down and kill America's enemies in the most efficient way possible. In short, as National Review's Dan McLaughlin tweeted: "To Mark Milley, the General Lee who has been dead for 151 years is a dire threat, but the General Li who commands the world's largest army on behalf of a murderous tyranny is a chum." That is damning almost beyond words.
Milley's direct attack on civilian control of the military is but the latest indication that our wokeist ruling class will take no prisoners in its systemic assault upon the very pillars of the American constitutional order. From Trump-era "deep state" malfeasance to imperious progressive judging to a woke Joint Chiefs chairman feeling justified in removing the duly elected commander in chief from the military chain of command, the ruling class has now thoroughly revealed the depths to which it is willing to sink in order to enact its agenda and force its political opposition to bend the knee. Eyes wide open, the onus is now on the deplorables to resist such an anti-constitutional -- indeed, anti-American -- trampling.
We live in a country run for the bureaucracy by the bureaucracy. We are Neo-Byzantines without the Christianity to hold them in check.
This Pentagon is a bigger danger to ordinary Americans
and their children ....rather than the Taliban and China.
why dont they just rename it to the PENTAGRAM??
The "non-issue" of election integrity says it all. Does the voice of We The People matter? Do our votes count? Probably not at all, and neither party is lifting a hand to restore any confidence in the election system. You can go to the polls if you want to, but the vote counters choose who will win. Because the ruling class spits on democracy and the will of the People.
Too heavy on the eye liner....
I half expect Milley to announce that, in defiance of the Republicans in Congress, he will cross the Potomac and rule as dictator. After all, Julius Caesar did just that. The difference is that Caesar had won battles and wars; I am unaware of a single incident in which Mr. Milley has prevailed. As Lincoln said after Gen. Hooker bragged to the press about the need for a military coup, “When he wins a battle, I will risk the coup”.
why don’t they just rename it to the PENTAGRAM??
That there is worth an attaboy, and if they did name it pentagram, they’d have to name Milley Satan.
One thing that is briefly mentioned in this article and skipped over entirely in others is that Milley called the Chinese in late October, only a few days before the election, to assure them that the situation (Trump) was under control and everything would be cool for them. He had apparently met with Pelosi before this, and Pelosi, a big fan of the Chinese and an hysterical hater of Trump, no doubt suggested the idea. Milley is not a smart man.
I think, of course, that Milley had been assured by Pelosi that the election was “under control” as well and that this was also implied in his message.
The Chinese hated Trump because he was attempting to restore the balance of trade with his anti-Chinese dumping and other measures. Milley was obviously fine with the Chinese owning the world, and I guess he wanted to be on their good side when the final takeover occurred. Or on the good side of Pelosi, whose faithful attack dog he was.
As I mentioned in other threads, I think we need to know who convinced President Trump to appoint Gen. Milley to the position of Chairman of the JCS. IMHO, President Trump had traitors in his inner circle, people he trusted, who advised him to pick Deep State operatives or sympathizers for key positions. Positions like Sec of Defense (Mattis and Esper), Attorney General (Sessions and Barr), FBI Director (Wray), National Security Advisor (McMaster and Bolton), Secretary of Homeland Security and Chief of Staff (Allen), Chairman of the JCS (Milley).
“I half expect Milley to announce that, in defiance of the Republicans in Congress,”
Why bother defying Repubs in Congress who can’t touch him?
Once upon a time, we would have ARRESTED MILLEY IMMEDIATELY and then COURT MARTIAL, then a FIRING SQUAD!
“Once upon a time, we would have ARRESTED MILLEY IMMEDIATELY and then COURT MARTIAL, then a FIRING SQUAD!”
Biden is the only person who could order that so it ain’t going to happen.
how many times to the Rosenberg’s have to turn over in their graves? I felt the last best hope is the military to stop this insanity and hold all those responsible. where do we turn now
Virtually every major institution in the United States has sold out to the Chinese. Until that is fixed we have little chance.
Many of us posted before the election that the election of Donald Trump meant that we would likely lose our existential war for survival against Japan.
Apply Pink Rapinoe hair color
“You can rest assured that one thing those trusted advisors all had in common was the “R” brand. Some here may have different, cute names for them, but it doesn’t alter the fact that they were Republicans. The Democrat Party is my sworn enemy, but the Republican Party is running a close second.”
People like Liz Cheney, McCain, George and Jeb Bush, all have the “R” brand and are not loyal to Trump. I continue to wonder about the identities of those who convinced Trump to select people who later turned on him in one fashion or another.
And where was Pence? The two days after the 6th Trump was overthrown. They executed a defacto 25th amendment. Half of Trumps cabinet resigned. Pelosi, Pence, McConnell, Graham, the FBI, CIA and pentagram all cut Trump out. His social media was silenced like in a South American coup where the plotters seize the radio station.
Trump was given a choice. Face immediate impeachment and removal overnight and arrest of he and his family. Or sit quietly as president Pence/Pelosi actually took charge and be able to leave quietly.
He was not allowed to control DOJ, issue pardons except a few they approved of as window dressing. He was not allowed to issue military orders. He was stripped of all powers by the coup but left in the White House for two more weeks because they knew arresting him would get them a result that would make 9/11 pale in comparison. The putsch went much higher than Milley.
Milley must go.
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