General Miley

[Dill]

(09-16-2021, 12:38 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Did you ever think Trumps dereliction of duty when our capital was under attack by the crowd he had just given a speech to was probably all the person with a front row seat had to see?

I don’t know the timeline of any of this but if he did this before the sitting pres attempted to throw out our democratic election results and stay in power like a 3rd world dictator and then proceed to sit on his ass gleefully watching the TV as his supporters assaulted our capital I would agree with y’all. If it was after… well then it’s a career military man taking action protecting the country he serves from someone he deems a threat.

Thanks for keeping this in context. Trump was a twice impeached president who was doing his best to defeat democratic process--even BEFORE 6/1--which must have been tremendously disconcerting to US allies. He regularly broke laws and diplomatic precedent, surprised his own staff with announcements like the Syria pullout, etc. "Owning the libs" wins votes, but it also sends a big message to the world--unhinged command. CiC INSTABILITY was the BASE PROBLEM facing the nation from Nov-Jan*--not to mention the world which could suffer its fallout.

Add to this that, as outside observers must have recognized, Congressional oversight was broken. That is WHY Trump was able to break laws with impunity. Vindman now faults Milley, but Congress was little help to V, or to his brother, whom Trump also vindictively fired. In the face of party control of the exec and Senate, Vindman--and all who "did the right thing"--were rendered impotent. Even their families punished.

The primary motivation for Milley's calls to China was not Milley's fear that Trump was going to attack China, but that intelligence indicated China thought the US unstable CiC might attack China under cover of a naval exercise, declaring a national emergency.

The worry, then, was that China might "preempt" Trump's strike with a strike of it's own. To Milley's mind, something had to be done.

If the generals in the Pentagon were uncertain enough and worried about Trump's behavior to discuss collective counter-measures, then we should not be surprised the Chinese might be even more concerned. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/donald-trump-election-coup-new-book-excerpt/index.html

As far as Milley promising to "warn" China in case of an attack, Milley has not yet copped to that, has he? It is a claim from Woodward-Costa book. My interest right now is whether further details show that Milley stuck his neck out, took risks upon himself (thereby protecting colleagues), to avert a possible tragedy.

*Still is, if you consider the impending disruption in 2022, as the effects of new election laws, gerrymandering, and now-professionalized election challenging kick in--all based on the Big Lie.