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atomheartbevo

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  1. Even if he wasn't a decent dude, he probably saw where things were headed and wasn't going to take the fall. It was only a matter of time.
  2. And doesn't know that he pardoned the President of Honduras who tried to help smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the US. And who was told by Hegseth that the two guys weren't killed, but if they were killed in a second strike, he wouldn't have done the second strike. And a surprising number of people don't want war with Venezuela, and this is an off-ramp of sorts for Congress to stop it.
  3. It's crazy much of this was predicted by Tom Clancy in Clear and Present Danger.
  4. None of these people can ultimately trust one another - they'll all burn everybody else before they are caught without a chair when the music stops. And I would be willing to bet that they absolutely believed they are right in their actions - I really doubt they spoke with "the best" civilian and military lawyers up and down the chain of command before all of this started. I want to know why that first admiral resigned.
  5. Doubtful. This is shit that ends careers. Not a good market for former flag officers who lose their rank/end up with felonies on their record, because they are useless. The private sector hires flag officers because flag officers give them access to people or places they want access to. They wouldn't get that here. And Trump and Whiskey Pete will absolutely burn this guy. If you're a senior officer, and your boss, the Secretary of Defense, is on social media proclaiming you a hero and telling everybody he's got your back and that you did no wrong....
  6. "The combat decisions he made". The motherfucker was on a ship at sea surrounded by other ships, or back in Florida staring at television monitors. He wasn't in a doorway in Fallujah trying to figure out where sniper fire was coming from so he could save one of his guys who was pinned down.
  7. The White House and Hegseth have already selected Bradley to go down for this.
  8. This one is really good, given how carefully the White House Press Secretary was dancing around the issue and trying to push discussion to the Department of Defense today, and how Hegseth's comments today were very carefully worded (while allowing for the possibility of the admiral taking the fall if the heat is too high). I fully expected them to come out and say "fuck you, they are combatants who were a threat to Amerka and we had to kill them" but instead they are being extremely cautious with their language. The interesting thing is that Trump this weekend said Hegseth told him that it didn't happen (two guys being killed after the boat was blown up) and then the DOD/White House couched their statements in a generic/vanilla way today. If Hegseth lied to Trump, that's a cardinal sin - Trump can lie to anybody at any time, but if you lie to him and he's called out for it, you're in deep shit and out of the trust circle.
  9. It's extremely high there. I have been pestering a bunch of the Ukraine/Russia folks I follow to move to BlueSky, and some have, but the problem is that a lot of them have audiences that don't care about/know about BlueSky or don't care about Musk or bots. Ironic because that area keeps getting flooded with Russian and African bots/trolls given the topics at hand.
  10. It's cheap to pay somebody a thousand bucks (or even less) and have a thousand bots try and drown out a conversation about something. If you are the agent of an athlete or coach or movie star or whatever, you probably have contacts with one or more companies with bot factories that can crank out what's akin to damage control by drowning out certain topics or conversations. Doesn't mean it works all the time - college football is firmly entrenched in twitter, and the bots aren't going to drown out the biggest news of the day, which is why we kept seeing those videos of Ole Miss fans swearing at and flipping off Kiffin and Co.
  11. From The Hill: The Trump administration has asserted that the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” (NIAC) with “designated terrorist organizations,” as backed up by a classified opinion authored by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which argues that because U.S. troops participating in the strikes are taking orders that are in line with the laws of war, they cannot be prosecuted. “But ‘NIAC’ is a legal term of art which requires certain facts that are not met here,” said Sarah Harrison, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. “That means the law of war is not applicable and thus these are not war crimes, but rather murders or extrajudicial killings.” Harrison, who is a former associate general counsel at the Department of Defense (DOD), argued what is “distinctly disturbing” about the Sept. 2 strikes is that even with the U.S. not being engaged in a war with drug traffickers, the DOD is “operating under the assumption” that it is and is “claiming it is applying the law of war.” “But every officer and enlisted is trained to know that it is a textbook war crime to execute individuals who are ‘hors de combat’ or ‘out of the fight,’” Harrison told The Hill on Monday. “That no one down the chain of command refused this patently illegal order is shocking and sheds more light on the breakdown of the rule of law within DOD under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth.” ————— Since they mentioned Navy SEALS, I would not be surprised if the admiral gave the team the orders directly, so there isn’t much of a chain of command. Whiskey Pete does appear to be looking for a scapegoat so he knows how serious this is.
  12. Gotta hurry and get those tariff rebate checks out there. If the Rs fuck up healthcare which they are trying, he may want to get the checks out there before January 1st.
  13. You know she spent a lot of time with military lawyers today on what she could and could not say.
  14. Should have posted this here instead of in the “very cool” thread. I’ve never flown on one of these, but have flown on a Chinook (which I know is larger) and it just fucking amazes me. I know these pilots were doing this dozens of times a day, but still, that flare…..
  15. Not all of it.
  16. Because he served his country.
  17. Don’t forget the Silk Road founder.
  18. I heard something that they either launched the missile themselves or had pinpointed the target somehow, but it all seemed odd why they were mentioned and why they were involved, since we have drones that do this stuff now. Like I said, if they were involved, it's because the powers that be wanted things quiet about what the orders were. I am guessing that the admirals involved are not going to take the fall by themselves.
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