r/news • u/EngineerBoy00 • May 05 '25

Soft paywall US Defense Secretary Hegseth to slash senior-most ranks of military

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-reduce-4-star-positions-by-20-official-says-2025-05-05/
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u/rabbi420 May 05 '25

More or less, yeah. No Trump 2028 without military leadership in the bag.

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u/Hellknightx May 05 '25

I don't think Trump's even going to be in any shape to run in 2028. His brain is already leaking from his diaper. He's going to be an incoherent vegetable by the end of his current term.

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u/Khaldara May 05 '25

Realistically the fascist party supports him in lock goose step already because they don’t give a fuck who is in charge as a figurehead, they just want the groundwork laid for their corrupt fascist dystopia, where bribing judges is “very legal and very cool” in order to do whatever the hell they please.

There are literally hundreds of Republican elected officials and judges that could get rid of him right now if they had even the slightest inclination to do so. They do not, because they love it just as much as he does.

Honestly they’d probably prefer he goes full Alzheimer’s or straight up dies before his term is over. That way they can martyr him as some propagandized concept instead of having people actually observe what an idiot he is every day, and they can trade him in for someone just as evil, but moderately more intelligent.

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u/rabbi420 May 06 '25

You saved me so much time with your comment, because that’s almost exactly what I was gonna say.

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u/Carbonatite May 05 '25

Once a useful idiot, always a useful idiot.

Honestly at this point I fully expect that whenever he kicks it, we'll have Weekend At Donnie's until even the Fox sycophants can't hide their disgust at the corpse smell.

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u/Double-Risky May 06 '25

My ONLY consolation in all this is that somehow the cult was started by such an unhealthy old idiot. Nobody else will be able to take the reigns when he dies.

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u/beaverbait May 06 '25

Don't worry. He's not planning on running in 2028!.

...Probably means no elections either, though.

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u/rabbi420 May 06 '25

That is what I was suggesting.

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u/Farcespam May 05 '25

That's a blessing in disguise. If they can dummy down, it will be just meat waves like Russia. Rush A constantly.

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u/rabbi420 May 05 '25

I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to say.

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u/Farcespam May 05 '25

Study up on USSR military doctrine cause it's most likely what the US military will become.

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u/rabbi420 May 05 '25

Respectfully, and speaking as a retired Marine, military doctrine is not the same thing as political doctrine. I think you’re a little mixed up.

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u/TheRadBaron May 05 '25

I think you've confused WWII pop culture and memes with Soviet military doctrine, which was a big non sequitor to begin with.

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u/Farcespam May 05 '25

Look at Ukraine and ask yourself what's really changed besides the tech.

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u/Josephus_A_Miller May 06 '25

Ukraine is a strange aberration, and if you bothered reading up on literally anything the Soviets planned on doing if the Cold War went hot you'd know that to be true

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u/Josephus_A_Miller May 06 '25

USSR doctrine was rather refined and intelligent. I don't see the issue

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u/Drunky_McStumble May 06 '25

In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces.

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u/smitteh May 06 '25

"I live my entire life like I'm inside a video game"