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War and military news September 25-26
There is some alarming news, I didn't want to post every headline and flood Tildes, so I'm making this post. If anyone feels any are important enough to post one separately, do feel free.
- Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
- Hungarian drones breach Ukraine's airspace, Zelensky says
- Boat strikes, warships and Venezuela rhetoric raise questions about Trump’s goals
- Chinese drone experts worked with sanctioned Russian arms maker, sources say
- Germany considers offensive space capabilities as Russia tracks its military satellites
- Trump says he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank
- Palestinians in West Bank stranded as Israel shuts only international crossing
- North Korea is close to having an ICBM that can hit the U.S. with a nuclear weapon, South Korean leader says
I check in on https://www.newsminimalist.com/ sometimes, I might have it bookmarked from here originally, but anyways, most of this news is from there
The physical recall of the vast majority of the top military leadership of the United States immediately made me worry about this being a loyalty purge. While I don't think we're at the stage where I'd worry about Generals and Admirals being shot if they aren't perceived as being personally loyal to trump, I DO think we might be at the stage were the'd be asked for their resignations / arrested on crap charges / demoted / 'reassigned' to a position of no consequence if they aren't willing to demonstrate loyalty to the executive above loyalty to the constitution.
The best reason (the least bad reason) I can think for this action is for distraction and theatre. And trump certainly does want distraction and theatre since public and political focus on 'The Epstein Files' has not faded with the news cycle. But I worry that this may well be for a darker, more immediately harmful purpose.
P.S. I put 'The Epstein Files' in quotes as I did since at this point I really feel like much of what any remaining undisclosed documentation would either prove or strongly infer is already public knowledge. Epstein was a human trafficker who raped kids, and made kids available for rape by the rich and powerful. His associations were largely in the public eye - we already know the names involved, we already know he and trump were close and even have letters in the public domain saying without explicitly saying 'hint-hint, nudge-nudge, isn't it great that on top of money and fame and power we also get to rape kids - ain't it great to be rich, powerful, and above the law'.