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  • Former defense chiefs call for congressional hearings on Trump’s firing of senior military leaders

    03/02/2025 4:55:16 AM PST · by Libloather · 69 replies
    Associated Press ^ | 2/27/25 | Lolita C. Baldor
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Five former secretaries of defense are calling on Congress to hold immediate hearings on President Donald Trump’s recent firings of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and several other senior military leaders, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. The five men — who represented Republican and Democratic administrations over the past three decades — said the dismissals were alarming, raised “troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military” and removed legal constraints on the president’s power. Late last week, Trump fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of...
  • Defense Secretary Austin says women in military 'make us stronger'

    11/20/2024 1:46:00 PM PST · by Salman · 69 replies
    NBC ^ | Nov. 20, 2024 | Courtney Kube and Mosheh Gains
    VIENTIANE, Laos — Women and racial diversity are vital to the strength of U.S. armed forces, outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in an exclusive interview with NBC News as he prepares to shortly exit the top military post after four years. “I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and everywhere I went on a battlefield, there were women in our formation,” Austin said. “I would tell you that, you know, our women are the finest troops in the world. Quite frankly, some of the finest in the world.” President-elect Donald Trump’s...
  • Trump’s replacement for four-star General Lloyd Austin: 44-year-old ‘anti-woke’ veteran and former FOX host Pete Hegseth

    11/15/2024 9:57:29 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 12 replies
    The Grio ^ | 11/13/24 | Natasha S. Alford
    Hegseth, a staunch opponent of DEI initiatives and former guard at Guantanamo Bay, has less leadership experience than current Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and critics have called him “unqualified.” America’s next secretary of defense could be starkly different from what the country has ever seen before. On Tuesday, just a day after Veterans Day, President-elect Donald Trump selected Pete Hegseth, 44, a former FOX News commentator and former Army National guardsman, to lead one of the world’s most powerful militaries. Hegseth will succeed Secretary-General Lloyd Austin III, the nation’s first Black Secretary of Defense, a historic choice made by...
  • Defense Secretary Austin arrives in Ukraine amid Russian gains and imminent US election

    10/21/2024 6:45:19 AM PDT · by bimboeruption · 19 replies
    CNN ^ | 10-21-24 | Natasha Bertrand
    Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv early Monday morning, as the future of US aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance of the imminent US presidential election and as Russia continues to make small but steady gains on the battlefield. Austin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov while in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine’s weapons needs and how the US can continue to support the country’s military over the next year, the secretary told a small group of reporters traveling with him to Kyiv on Sunday night. The secretary’s visit will also serve as...
  • Terrified Dems have dystopian theory about real reason for keeping ailing Biden, 81, in power - as shocking new claims about his decline emerge

    07/04/2024 11:37:48 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 156 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 05 Jul 2024 | Joe Hutchison
    Top Democrats are so alarmed about Joe Biden's ailing health some fear a shadowy cabal is keeping him in power so they can pull levers behind the scenes, it is claimed. The astonishing theory was detailed in the liberal New York magazine. Its reporter Olivia Nuzzi revealed that even Democrat elites are stumped as to how and why the fast-declining 81 year-old is being allowed to continue his re-election bid. Nuzzi said she had heard questions being posed by high-ranking Democrats on the east and west coasts about whether Biden is a puppet whose strings are being pulled by another...
  • *POPCORN* Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says quiet part about WHO is actually running the country out LOUD

    02/19/2024 3:40:11 PM PST · by NetAddicted · 47 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 2/19/2024 | Sam J.
    We're PRETTY sure RFK Jr. didn't mean to give the Biden administration up since it sounds like he is trying to defend Biden and give him the benefit of the doubt even though he has been denied Secret Service protection. By the Biden administration. So maybe he did mean to? After all, it does sound like he is calling out the shadow president ... From the rest of his post: I suspect that the White House decision to deny me Secret Service protection — and many other more important decisions — are being made, not by the President himself, but...
  • RFK Jr.: Who Really Profits From The Ukraine War?

    01/10/2024 12:10:52 AM PST · by Nextrush · 43 replies
    You Tube ^ | 1/6/2024 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
    (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) "The Russians tried repeatedly to settle...major thing they wanted was for us to keep NATO out of Ukraine. The Big Military Contractors want to add new countries to NATO...Why? Because that country has to conform its military purchases... Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing and Lockheed get a trapped market... We committed 113 billion dollars...we then committed another 24 billion since then... Biden's asking for another 60 billion. But the big, big expenses are going to come after the war when we have to rebuild.... Mitch McConnell was asked "Can we really afford to spend 113...
  • Report: Defense Secretary Warned Congress U.S. Troops Could Be Deployed If Ukraine Aid Is Not Sent

    12/05/2023 7:40:58 PM PST · by chief lee runamok · 155 replies
    breitbart ^ | Kristina Wong
    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Congress on Tuesday during a private briefing that if they do not pass more aid to Ukraine, it would “very likely” lead to U.S. troops fighting a war in Europe.
  • Secy. of State Blinken: We have seen an alarming recession of democracy

    04/13/2022 11:59:35 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 55 replies
    One America News ^ | April 13, 2022
    Secretary of State Antony Blinken says democratic principles are on the decline around the world while human rights abuses are on the rise. The US State Department issued a dire warning about the state of democracy in several countries. While speaking about the department’s 46th Annual Report on Human Rights Practices in nearly 200 countries around the world, Secretary Blinken said there was a trend in backsliding in 2021. “For many years running, we have seen an alarming recession of democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights in many parts of the world,” he stated. “In the time...
  • Former CIA chiefs, US officials call on Biden to restore Iran’s fear of strikes

    12/17/2021 2:08:43 PM PST · by NewsRael · 8 replies
    newsrael ^ | Newsrael
    “Therefore, for the sake of our diplomatic effort to resolve this crisis, we believe it is vital to restore Iran’s fear that its current nuclear path will trigger the use of force against it by the United States,” the letter signed by Leon Panetta and David Petraeus read. Al Arabiya English reports now that Two former CIA directors and a handful of former senior US officials urged President Joe Biden to “restore Iran’s fear that its current nuclear path will trigger the use of force,” in a letter published Friday. “Diplomacy appears to be moving backward,” the letter read on...
  • Potential Biden Officials’ Firm Is Promising Big Profits Off Those Connections

    11/30/2020 8:21:24 PM PST · by Beave Meister · 4 replies
    Daily Poster ^ | 11/28/2020 | David Sirota
    Former government officials Tony Blinken, Michele Flournoy & Lloyd Austin may run Biden’s national security agencies — their firm is telling investors it expects to profit off ties to those officials. Two former government officials who may now run President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team have been partners at a private equity firm now promising investors big profits off government business because of its ties to those officials, according to government documents reviewed by The Daily Poster. Pine Island Capital Partners lists former Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy and retired General Lloyd Austin as a partner in the firm,...
  • Lloyd Austin says increased China activity near Taiwan 'looks like rehearsal'

    12/04/2021 8:50:24 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 75 replies
    Fox News ^ | December 4, 2021 | Jon Brown |
    Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Saturday that China's increased military activity near Taiwan seemingly indicates a "rehearsal" of the country's future intentions. Austin made his comment during a keynote discussion with Fox News anchor Bret Baier at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California. Pointing out how China has been launching multiple air operations near Taiwan in recent months, Baier asked Austin, "Do you think that these are training flights for future operations?" Austin noted that he didn't want to speculate, but said, "Certainly, it looks like them exploring what their true capabilities [are], and sure,...
  • FOIA email - Hunter Biden sneaking into State Department for Meeting with Deputy Undersecretary Tony Blinken

    10/17/2020 8:32:12 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 105 replies
    Twitter ^ | Oct 17, 2020 | Katicia on Twitter
    @RudyGiuliani : A meeting is coming out in 1-2 days in State Dept. in which Hunter snuck in the back door ... That meeting took place with Tony Blinken."