This seems like exactly the type of gathering you want to avoid in a world where hypersonic missiles probably* exist.
* bring on the pedantry over what actually defines a hypersonic missile
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Seems like the kind of gathering where you may want to bring a gun and sit near the emergency exit.
We're going to war with somebody.
And all the times I've heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.
But, I could be wrong. I always admit that.
I hope they all brought knives ala the Roman Senate...
There is no way this is a good thing. Summoning a single general to a meeting without giving any context is not a thing that is done. Summoning all of them and not stating the meeting purpose or providing read ahead charts or pre-briefs... that's incredibly ominous.
I'm hoping it is only him directing them to call it Dept of War (DoW) on all official comms instead of DoD.
Its also ridiculously irresponsible.
There is a lot of discussion to be had over the actual value of a general in modern warfare (where individual soldiers have tactical value and so much decision making happens at the company or even squad level). But no discussion is required to say what a ridiculously juicy target "every high ranking military official" is and the massive damage to morale and organization that would ensue.
What, with the current administration, is not ridiculously irresponsible?
Yeah that’s a lot of HVT in one area.
I wouldn’t be super shocked if this turns into loyalty pledge-a-palooza.
That's my guess as well. "Swear a blood oath to King Trump personally or you're fired right now".
"Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes, Adolf Hitler, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen.“
My guess is about 1/4 are about to be fired for not being enough of a sycophant. Everybody is being called for two reasons; that’s how the corpo’s do layoffs now and, more importantly, as of right now the admin has zero fucking clue which 1/4 they are going to fire yet. That list is going to have more day of changes than a Vince McMahon era PPV.
If they do replace them they will be incompetent boobs who will screw up at every turn. Might be a good thing?
I am sure they will share it on signal again. If not it will get leaked real fast. These numpties could not keep a secret if their lives depended on it.
You could call it Pentagon Secret Pizza Service
Or PSPS
Do you deliver to Virginia?
I mean I'd pretty much have to.
Would you be willing to deliver to MD? Do your drivers have any drone experience?
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I mean you don't really call in people from abroad to say "hey, war time" you call in people to tell them they're no longer needed and the others who are also called in get told about the "awesome" restructuring that's going on.
Drunk texted them accidentally?
Don't think so, there was no journalist in the chat group...
Fucking hit "Reply All"
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Telling them we are invading Venezuela probably.
Or New York City.
The generals in Europe wouldn't care if we invaded South America. He's doing something bigger. My bet is invading Ukraine, Russia, NATO, or the US. And I couldn't guess which one. Maybe more than one.
I hate that all these are legitimate possibilities. "We're doing a coup, so you will all be expected to do your part."
That could be an email. Bringing them in person is alarming.
Hegseth is a media talking head. He wants spectacle to garner viewership, so a dramatic in-person meeting would be the way he would do it.
“Okay boys, who’s in on the second Trump self-coup? Also, if you say no you’re going to the ICE camps.”
If I were a general I'd be worried about some sort of culling a la Saddam.
Saddam was a hell of a lot more competent than this bunch. I actually consider it a significant blessing that they want to jump us over the cliff and into fascism, but they're in a Pinto that needs new tires, and they seem unaware enough that they are trying to make it work anyway.
Not to say it definitely won't work, I am glad for people getting out and raising hell about it. But it is a blessing that they are so stupid.
That is seriously ominous
Trump is declaring war on the UN because of the escalator, starting the stupidest war since Caligula declared war on the sea.
Well Caligula won that war. Really showed Neptune
"Ok everyone, we're here for a very important reason. Trump is pouty over his UN incident and we need to throw him a proper dictator worship party. I'm going to need all of you in DC pronto so we can really give those boots a good kissing. It's for The Good Of the Country™©®."
Sorry boss, best I can do is a warship party.
-Navy equivalent of brigadier general or above
Well since we’re all here howabout a quick game of Frag the Drunk Nazi.
There’s a government shutdown looming, who’s to say it doesn’t have something to do with that? Y’know, since their paychecks come from the government.
The defense budget is basically unlimited
If the drunk loser wants a war he can go himself, maybe he can finally get some qualifying experience and get shot a few times by the Taliban
In construction we refer to this as a pizza party… pink slips to follow shortly. Hope you’ve been paying into that unemployment boys.
We're resegregating the military.
Is it a meeting or a happy hour?
Looks like we're headed to war......with Kerplakistan.
Link to the leaks please
I read the comments and first of all—you guys are hilarious 🤣
So I'm going to be that guy and tell the truth: It's almost certainly related to what's going on with Russia invading Poland (or at least violating their airspace) right now.
No. There is zero reason to bring all generals in person over last week's drones.
I'm of the mind it's either a mass firing (they already put plans in place to cut the top 20% or so of military command) with loyalty pledge, going to full blown war, or a favor to Putin to take all of the US command down at the same time. From most likely to least.
Edit: Something else occurring to me now, would be a great time for Putin to attack NATO with everyone flying back to the USA.
I swear to god America IF that's what happens, you're going from schizo friend who is currently psychotic to outright, full blown enemy. I mean that. Every last one of you. Unless you actually do something.