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WaPo wants everyone to know they are complying with Hegseth’s directive that credentialed news orgs only print what the Pentagon tells them to print or be blacklisted.
Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.
so the question is are we invading venezuela, china, or a US state?
I can't imagine (openly) attacking China. Venezuela feels likely, but so does invading internal states, which would be wild.
It's easy to make fun of Trump and his administration. Time and again they've shown themselves to be stupid, incompetent, and lazy. But this meeting gives me the creeps. Trump's standard method of operation is to have his flunkies brazenly break the law and see what happens. What they are up to?
Venezuela invasion probably
Ben Norton's anaylsis of this ghoul is that he's a religious fanatic who thinks he's waging a Holy War against Communist China. So these actions he pulls is a concerning
he's a religious fanatic who thinks he's waging a Holy War against Communist China
No idea what's coming out of this, but the US empire is running out of time. Every day China grows stronger and the US capability to restrain the world through lawfare and sanctions grows weaker. The hammer is increasingly the only tool left, but it has a shelf life too, as the US's enemies continue to develop their defensive capabilities. In a little over a week, Iran was able to land significant blows against 'Israel,' and Iran has only a fraction of the capabilities of China or Russia. They need to do something, and they need to do it soon. The question is what?
The article suggests they might focus inward, shifting their focus from China as a primary 'threat,' to domestic radicalism, but this would be a terminal mistake. For the empire to literally turn its guns inward and shoot itself in the foot at this moment of precarity would seal its doom. It would only accelerate the decline of the US's economic, technological, and cultural power, while granting a repressive to its enemies. Liberalism as we know it has already been defeated. The right holds more power now than they have in generations. They already have millions of cops to maintain order domestically, and there is no armed insurgency justifying an "all hands on deck" military response (let alone a single spec-ops unit) to speak of. There is absolutely nothing gain from doing this.
If they are "smart," this meeting is being held in preparation for a foreign intervention.
I dunno, feels like "Nazi counterattacks in 1944" type shit. Like it's only gonna get harder but even if you try now you have a 90+% chance of failure. The US could probably do a lot of damage, but at the cost of much of the navy and air force, and that's ignoring the chance of things going nuclear.
Top administration officials also have preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern, after several years of China being identified as the top national security risk to the United States.
Does this mean the military is going to be used inside the USA, on their own population, on a previously unseen scale?
Kinda feels like it, especially since I personally know at least a few people whose brain has been melted by facebook propaganda who would eagerly support it.
When I saw my mom angrily (and unprompted) blaming "evil democrats" within a couple hours of Kirk getting shot in texts, it highlighted to me on a personal level how the foundation has been laid for this regime to just do whatever they want and get meaningful support for it. There's a considerable percentage of the population now who are such reactionary fanatics that they will 100% cheer on Trump if they see troops cracking skulls in "evil democrat states".
We know what this is. We all saw the Nazi salute during the inauguration, the subsequent deconstruction of the government, and the fucking death camps opening.
Night of long knives?
One where the paramilitaries and cops purge the military of disloyal elements, using anti-antifa as the pretense would be very plausible
but in preparation for what? do they really expect mass disloyalty if they invade venezuela? china?
Most likely a general (no pun intended) purge of anyone displaying anything other than absolute fealty to Trump. If there’s anything the Trump II administration has proven, it’s that Trump can install the most unqualified hacks in prominent positions of power and business in DC will continue as usual. So they get rid of any general that sees a contradiction in “putting Trump first is putting America first” and replace them with whomever Trump found entertaining on Fox News this week.
Can’t wait to see Judge Janine to get two bottles of sherry in her and ride into battle on the back of a MRAP screaming about Mrs Potatohead
Good question, they have no push back on anything they want. Natural fascist desire to eat each other?
I guess it’s more secure than a group chat 
Not a cell phone in sight, just generals living in the moment ♥️
Hmmm, hey internal anxiety, what do you think is going to happen?
Ah... hmm, really? Ok, ok... well shit.
Don't let me hold the lathe on this one: They're going to announce an economic depression soon and ramp up the fascism internally. They're getting the army prepped to join ICE in brutally deporting people they don't like. Anyone that refuses during this meeting will be immediately replaced. Martial law will just be the start of the purge. Immigrants, sure, but also the homeless, trans people, leftists, sucdems, libs that actively protest, chuds that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and there'll probably be a few more fash idiots "martyred" for being more useful dead than alive while they're at it. My anxiety is telling me to spend all my money on fun shit while I can, but I'm going to try and ignore that urge.
Ok now let me give one of the best case scenarios:
The orders come as Hegseth has unilaterally directed massive recent changes at the Pentagon — including directing that the number of general officers be reduced by 20 percent, firing senior leaders without cause and a high-profile new order to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War.
Military mass layoffs babeeeeeeeeee. 
Got to fire all the DEI hires. 
Recruitment crisis? Just take the SSRIs and stimulants away from our finest White children and send them in. 
This isn't alarming at all!
Pentagon about to start bombing CIA aligned cartels in Mexico
They were supposed to have those plans ready by September, per a former leak from Klippenstein.
But I don't think that would require a meeting like this, after all, attacking Venezuelan fishermen didn't
Since entering office, the Trump administration also has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.
I don't know how accurate this Bluesky comment is.
This has basically never been done.
probably the most appropriate gif since after this nothing actually happens
Quantico Virginia
Sources indicate that Hegseth called the emergency meeting because he glued his balls to his butthole again, and now he can't take a dump because his balls are blocking up his butthole
I don't exactly have high faith in the US military to even look after their own interests, but do you think there's ever some point where a coup would be considered? If they tried to purge enough of the ranking leaders, that they decided to do an alternative rather than take it?
I doubt it, as there isn't really a tradition of coups in the country, and I doubt there's a wide ideological push in the generals. But maybe I guess, if they're going to lose everything, or if like Trump would torpedo the military through something incredibly stupid?
I'm doubtful of that at all really, but the they are also the only ones other than the executive branch with any actual power in the country. Maybe a few ambitious ones will figure that out, that if they do it, they'd probably instantly succeed.
A true coup seems out of the question for the reasons you gave, but I think some sort of "quiet coup" where the military leadership mass refuses purges is possible. A sort of leadership 'strike', where they openly or covertly shut this effort down and restrain the executive by not going along. Hegseth has absolutely no legitimacy among brass, who see him as a drunken loser with no right to the top spot, and among the rank and file, who see him as a drunken loser with no concern for their safety or well being.
