• @count_dongulus
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    34 months ago

    Fair, but I don’t personally feel it would get to that level before courts or congress got involved. Congress has to approve appointments for senior leadership. The UCMJ has regulations related to dismissal. And if they fire all competent command and replace them with generally inept cronies…there would be a very big block of very angry and very competent ex military leaders to contend with.

    • mozz
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      24 months ago

      Yeah. One thing I very much like about the US military is that the high levels of the brass have a pretty heavy sprinkling of people like Mattis and Milley who are pretty heavily pro democracy and not shy about speaking up about it.

      Idk what happened with Mueller and just leaving to the hands of fate, but I feel like Milley in the analogous situation as regards a new civil war would just suit up and say yo we’re starting the Free French US forces, get the fuck on board loser, let’s go