Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley stands by his decision to privately reach out to senior military officials and his Chinese counterpart in an attempt to keep then-President Donald Trump from dragging the U.S. into war.
Thank You General Milley
A nuclear war can just ruin your day
We do want the TruthâŚand that is a good position to have.
Or make it. Havenât had nukes going off in decades-- look at any documentary, itâs all grainy and low-grade resolution film.
I want the Tehran one filmed in Ultra 4K.
" Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested that Milley be âcourt martialed.â"
I am suggesting Marmot-headed Russian asset chickenhawk shut the fuck up.
Conservatives who have a problem with this are welcome to go fuck themselves.
If only people were as concerned about TFG doing his job instead of Milley catching shit all the time.
Shucks. When you put it that wayâŚ
Lying is all the GOP has at the momentâŚand the lag caused by the necessity for us to use Protocol and S.O.P. (while the GOP lies at the rate of several thousand per day).
It will not be enough, though, and they know it.
Iâm about as hard-core liberal as they come, and this makes me a bit queezy.
The military chain of command is structured so that decisions are ultimately under civilian control via the President and the Secretary of Defense.
Anything which undermines or gives the appearance of undermining that is a concern.
Sure, this time we may support the circumstances, but what happens the next time, if itâs a General deciding âfuck Bidenâ and going to do their own thing? Would we still see the same support?
It doesnât sound like this was a one-on-one âsecret callâ at all.
"A defense official familiar with the calls said that description is âgrossly mischaracterized.â
The official said the calls were not out of the ordinary, and the chairman was not frantically trying to reassure his counterpart.
The people also said that Milley did not go rogue in placing the call, as the book suggests. In fact, Milley asked permission from acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller before making the call, said one former senior defense official, who was in the room for the meeting. Milley also briefed the secretaryâs office after the call, the former official said."
Trump is the only person I can think of who would make it imperative to save the country in this manner.
Thatâs what he is, to our peril and detriment, because this is a country that uses precedent a lot.
I would support resignation then Milleyâs canonization as an American savior when the Story is Told.
Depends, doesnât it? If Milley needs to run some interference to make sure Biden doesnât nuke China on his own Iâm all for it. 
Milley did nothing to undermine civilian control. He didnât make anybody swear an oath that they would refuse SecDef or Blobboâs lawful orders. He asked to be kept informed, for the obvious reason that he wanted to have the opportunity to talk Trump out of doing anything too apocalyptic.
Iâve said this before, and Iâll say it again: No one has ever credibly accused General Mark A. Milley of being politically minded. (And Saints preserve us from âpolitical generalsâ, anyway.)
But neither has he been credibly accused of being a bad soldier, much less a traitor.
That presumes that weâre actually opposed to nuking China.
May have to, sooner or later, so if we need to, best to get it out of the way so that we can get iPhone production lines back up and running as soon as possible after weâve eliminated Xi and the PLA.
âIf the allegations are true, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-TX) should go down in history as a traitor to the American people.â
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Re-posted from other thread. General Milley wasnât going rogue with that call to his Chinese counterpart. From Politico:
Milley asked permission from acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller before making the call, said one former senior defense official, who was in the room for the meeting. Milley also briefed the secretaryâs office after the call, the former official said.
âWe discussed beforehand and after his call with his Chinese counterpart,â the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic.
As for asking to be advised if Trump ordered an attack when he wasnât in the direct chain of command for that order, Iâm not a military lawyer, but on the face of it, he would seem to be at a high enough rank to be asked to be kept in the loop.
We could make an assumption that the reason he wanted to be advised was so he could take action to stop it, but that didnât happen. So Iâm not sure what there is to get upset about here. And there is a lot to be thankful for, that at least a few guardrails were still in place.
It would probably be faster to start new production lines elsewhere in that event.
Thatâs, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ, not TX). Either way he is a jerk.