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If you rise to the rank of general, you're more politician than soldier though, and politicians change teams all the time
Not that kind of politics, though. Any General has had to navigate an elaborate military political labyrinth of rules, regulations, and the erratic and unpredictable vagaries of higher command. That's far different from dealing with the politics of elections, votes, campaign financing, public opinions, etc., that an elected politician has to deal with.
Generals are people who have fully bought into the concept of protecting America from its enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC. They also have a military education equivalent to a doctorate in any other career. They are fully aware of what their rights and responsibilities are, should they be involuntarily confined to a room, and ordered to dismiss their original oath to their COUNTRY, and take a new on to the Führer.
They will recognize this for what it is, and it will be a watershed moment for this administration. What if all the Generals simply refuse? What will Trump and Hegseth do? Fire them all? Imprison them? Remove them from positions of responsibility? Who will replace them? What if the next several levels of command also refuse? Who will operate the military?
Whatever MAGA does to respond to a Rebellion of Generals will weaken America in the eyes of our enemies.
You put all your hope into the generals recognizing MAGA as the domestic enemy. It could easily go the other way.
I don't put ALL my hopes into anything. I honestly feel like America is going to crash, and have an apocalyptic Depression that will make the Great Depression look like the post-war boom.
I have a degree in history, and I could rattle off numerous societies that were doing well, right up until the moment they fully collapsed, and were buried over by the next civilization. We aren't special, we've only been around for 250 years. The Romans lasted hundreds, the Egyptians lasted centuries. The Greeks were living an amazing modern life, until they became ancient history. Then there were the Sumerians, the Phoenicians, and many many more. I guarantee that ALL of them felt that their culture would last forever. Today, nobody even speaks their languages.
For the past 50 years, I've watched us barrel down this freeway to destruction, watching every off ramp go by. Here's another one, a big one, an off ramp that could really take us in a different direction, and I'm just pointing it out.
Hopefully, the Generals see this off ramp for the unique opportunity that it is. Generals aren't like politicians. Generals tend to be brave, while nobody is more cowardly than a politician. Generals will accept a dangerous assignment, while a politician will avoid it at any cost. So perhaps the Generals will do what the politicians won't - their jobs, and defend America from certain destruction.
But I'm not holding my breath, either. I am planning and stockpiling for a future apocalypse, and I think the chances of that are about 70%.