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The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

  • KingArnulf@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 days ago

    10 bucks says Hegseth meant to meet with a couple generals, but because he was drunk he accidentally sent the orders to every general and admiral in the military.

  • verdi@feddit.org
    37·
    2 days ago

    Can anyone added accidentally to the signal group brief us on what happened in the meeting please.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      28·
      2 days ago

      More like the way Hitler had all the generals summoned in 1935 to take an oath to him personally instead of to the Weimar Republic.

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    175·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      127·
      3 days ago

      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.

          • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
            12·
            3 days ago

            I’m skeptical of that.

            This will be hundreds of “military men”. Yes, the vast majority are pencil pushers who are in worse shape than the average divorced dad “trying to get back out there”. Even if they are bringing every single chud they can find, they are still going to be the “weaker” group. And chuds hate feeling weak.

            If it were just the inevitable loyalty oaths, I would expect that to happen in more isolated groups. And while it is always possible that they could batch the generals into the room to kiss the skidmarked ring, that still feels like a risk when they might not get the photo op they want at the end.

            My money is on “planning how to secede from the United Nations”. Aka “planning to go to war with basically all of NATO and a bunch of Global South countries who want revenge”. Whether that goes anywhere is a different discussion, but “all of our generals made some great plans” is a talking point they would want.

        • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
          25·
          3 days ago

          "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.“

        • Birch@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          3 days ago

          They have not yet decided to ban speed limits and seat belts, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
    46·
    3 days ago

    I remember hearing a story about some country’s leader started gathering their legislators and then claimed he had uncovered a list of names conspiring against him, then announced the names one by one, got the soldiers to lead them to a hallway, and executed them, then the remainder of them pledge loyalty to the leader.

    Something like that, forgot what country it was. But this sounds so familiar. Uncanny parallel.

  • Doolbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      47·
      3 days ago

      And all the times I’ve heard MAGA tell me Biden and the Dems were warmongers.

      It’s always projection. 100% of the time

      • Birch@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        3 days ago

        Epstein’s Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]

        • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s polulist tactics 101: blame all your wrongdoings on your enemy/opposition. All they can reply with is “no you!” Wow, strong defense, as if anyone is going to believe that.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 days ago

        Maybe it’s like the department of justice: find me a war that will help me politically. I’ll fire anyone who doesnt.

        But shit, Venezuelans need to be stocking up on supplies. Effing MAGAts have already been laying the groundwork

    • EchoCranium@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      They need to christen their newly renamed Department of War with a war of some sort. Otherwise why go through all that trouble of renaming it. That would just look stupid.

    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 days ago

      But, I could be wrong.

      They renamed the Department of Defense to Department of War. So yeah, you’re probably wrong. It’s probably just a military high tea with a karaoke contest or something.

    • Catma@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      “Antifa” they are going to war with American citizens. They are going to purge anyone who objects

  • KnitWit@lemmy.world
    78·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      If they do replace them they will be incompetent boobs who will screw up at every turn. Might be a good thing?

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        I would think it to be good. That would push the Blue States to hire the none-evil leadership into their ranks. We will need skilled and good people to lead us against the Neo Confederates.

      • KnitWit@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        Doesn’t take much intelligence to order the go ahead on another civilian boat bombing. If anything, the dumber for the better that type of evil.

    • npcknapsack@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      There were two meeting rooms on the email! (/silly joke)

      But don’t they do mass firings by text and just locking you out of your machine these days? The US Aid workers were left stranded for a while— not sure if they got help getting back or just got abandoned and had to get friends and family to pitch in for flights home…

  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    483·
    3 days ago

    Smells like a purge.

    The kind where they’ll call names, take them outside, and summarily execute them for some invented treason.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      29·
      3 days ago

      I mean… the US military is supposed to be anti fascist, and if you’re a general you’ve been there longer than just trumps term, so really they are all anti fascists.

      Antifa is a terrorist organization now, so he’ll round em all up, charge them with treason, and install new generals who’ve never served in the military before.

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
        29·
        3 days ago

        The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man. Which is what my air force friends have been telling me - don’t worry, the forces won’t go fascist. Trump apparently came to the same conclusion and is reducing their forces while he massively ramps up ICE, his new domestic army that DOES swear allegiance to him.

        Which seems like it has implications but I’m no analyst.

        • regedit@lemmy.zip
          9·
          2 days ago

          The military swears an oath to the constitution, not the president or any man.

          Technically, all of the admin did the same pledge and we see how that’s going.

        • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
          4·
          2 days ago

          Not just ICE. Republicans are talking about putting a Turning Point USA chapter in every school in the country. They’re stacking the next generation with Hitler Youth indocrination to avoid that pesky “loyalty to the constitution”

        • Zron@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          I mean, there’s funding, sure. But I’d put my money on a marine with nothing but flipflops and his privately owned rifle over a ICE goon any day.

            • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 days ago

              I could be wrong here, but I feel like anyone in ICE who was in the military are the military rejects, or couldn’t get into the military.

              If they were good ex military there would better jobs than ICE.

          • Alatain@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            Every org is going to have extremists, but you are talking about a former military member that was discharged with a less than honorable discharge, who then committed and was sentenced for murder.

            What do you think the AFB should have done here?

      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
        10·
        3 days ago

        Its actually illegal to be a “Nazi” “Communist” or “Member of a Totalitarian Party” when someone becomes a US Citizen, so I think we should revoke citizenship of all the magats.

      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
        2·
        19 hours ago

        Which will basically be like Tsarist Russia, which was humiliated countless times in the 19th century and ww1 in no small part due to their big military officers being appointed due to noble rank rather than merit or ability.