General Milley cannot undermine civilian authority. The US is not a military junta Lt Col Daniel L Davis (ret)

(British) Guardian ^ | Sep 17, 2021

[Conservat1]

A new book claims the US’s top military officer secretly told the Chinese military he would warn if Trump ordered an attack. His reasons don’t matter – he must be relieved of command

...if he did indeed negotiate with a foreign military rival without authorization, he violated the longstanding American political tradition that the military is subordinate to elected civilian leaders.

[Savage Rider]

The media will try to distract about the Jan. 8 call, which is concerning. The treasonous call was in October, before the election. The content is telling China we would let them know if we were to attack. He should forever be known as “Benedict” Milley.

[webheart]

Nice, but it isn’t a “tradition”.

[Conservat1]

Though the book authors Woodward/Costa wanted only to defame Trump, Milley still came out ugly in all of that. Unless in the eyes of woke-ism.

[webheart]

The call was in October.... Does this mean that Milley knew that the fix was in? There was no indication prior to the election that Trump was anything but a walk away winner. But, in October we have the General preparing for Trump to start a war as revenge for losing? (The only time I remember a President doing such a thing was when Bush 1 put us in Somalia right before Clinton was inaugurated.)

[hardspunned]

I think this guy’s wokeism and erratic behavior identify him as being psychotic. He might well believe the wokest BS and possibly believed he was avoiding WWIII by going to the CCP. He is just as powerful now as then and possibly just as psychotic. Extremely dangerous, anyone ask him if he’s concerned about our precious bodily fluids?

[bigbob]

“If”

Let’s stop guessing and find out, dammit!

I haven’t read much that denies the allegations.

[Conservat1]

The writer should have at least write it: ‘as’ instead of ‘if’.

[refermech]

It’s possible that Woodward is trying to cement his legacy as an unbiased journalist. Woodward has always been seen as a lefty journalist and this would let people like Milley relax and open up to him. If this indeed happened, Woodward will be hailed as the greatest journalist of our time. And I’m sure he would agree.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Correct - it’s an intelligence agency junta.

[Lurkinanloomin]

He can and he has.

[Widget Jr]

Saying someone can’t do something after they undeniably did it is delusional.

[Vision]

Imagine what would be happening if this happened to Biden.

[SuperLuminal]

"General Milley cannot undermine civilian authority."

Col Davis need to seriously consider a better brand of LSD...

[Conservat1]

Imagine what would be happening if this happened to Biden.

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365 days non-stop bombardment about 'treason' from the most unpatriotic media...

And the duo, Cuomo/DonLremon would repeat the same boring lines over and over, night in night out, only to be spending the 24 hours in between to see what variety of "drama" can be used to "refresh" the scandal trying to 'shick'.

[Vision]

The world would be on fire.

[GOPJ]

On 21 July 2021, Milley told the Pentagon press corps that despite reports that the Taliban had been capturing scores of districts from government forces, the Afghan forces had “the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country”. Less than a month later and mere days after the Taliban had seized Kabul, Milley claimed: “There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days.”

But Milley’s revisionist claim that neither he “nor anyone else” could have foreseen the collapse of the Afghan military is laughable. Just two days earlier, John Sopko, the long-time Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar), told NPR that the collapse was not in the least surprising: I mean, we’ve been warning – my little agency – for the last almost 10 years about issues with the … Afghan security forces’ capabilities and sustainment. All the signs have been there. I mean, we’ve been shining a light on it in multiple reports going back to when I started [in] 2012 about changing metrics, about … ghost soldiers who didn’t exist, about poor logistics, about the fact that the Afghans couldn’t sustain what we were giving them. ... I think the speed maybe is a little bit of a surprise. But the fact that the [Afghan forces] could not fight on their own should not have been a surprise to anyone.

Milley not only gave warning to his Chinese friends - he also gave them American lives and 85 Billion dollars worth of hightech weapons.The question on the table is WHAT DID THE CHINESE GIVE MILLEY? Anyone got a picture of his DC Mansion? The cars he drives?