Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.

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[–] 146 points 2 years ago (14 children)

This is an internal coup, there's no doubt about it. I'm not sure how the oligarchs are letting this happen. It's insane. Their regret will not make me happy.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    It's being funded by the Oligarchs, why would they want to stop it?

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Oligarchs are not unified. Some companies are heavily disaffected like pharmaceuticals thanks to RFK. Tariffs will also hurt most businesses' bottomline. Trump's policies only benefit certain oligarchs (tech companies and Musk) so the other oligarchs who get pissed off will band together to support someone friendlier.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    The oncoming recession is going to hurt most businesses.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    But not the owners. They'll be able to buy up those tasty, cheap stocks.

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    [+] 137 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 111 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    It's absolutely batshit insane that we can see this happening in real time and have direct references to the third reich.

    Every fucking week they do something and we can just pull an article about how the Nazis did it first.

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  • [+] 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You know. Its interesting. Like... really interesting. And sobering.

    Reading history books about the rise of the nazis and the reich, and you ask yourself, "how could they have not known what was going on?" and "how could they let these things happen?" What were they doing just standing around? Why did they let this happen?

    I understand that history is written by the victors. I understand that there is so much we will never know. There is nuance and circumstance and so many things that snowball into the most terrible things.

    But now... im starting to understand the feeling of powerlessness now. The inability to change the machines that are in motion. The overwhelming dread.

    I could make generalizations of the people of germany in the 1930s. But it would be disingenuous. And unnecessary. It feels like they are my neighbors now in 2025. They are angry, or apathetic, or ignorant. And the machine and history does not care about them in the slightest. History will be written by the winner and we are all going to be a broad generalization of what happens next. Your experiences will be written off as a success for the new order, or as a failure. If it is written at all.

    History doesnt teach you to dwell on the minutiae and routines of the common man. It doesnt teach you that, despite everything you may do or what you believe, or how much you loathe the actions of your leaders, that you have so little sway. That you are powerless and ineffective.

    I feel that and understand that now.

    History books in school taught us the wrong lesson i think. But i dont think that we can learn this experience from a book or documentary. If it could, we would not be repeating it now.

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  • [–] 112 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Hey Americans if you were looking for a red line this should probably be it...

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    [–] 83 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    General Brown was abruptly dismissed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on February 21, 2025 by President Donald Trump. Trump subsequently announced that Brown would be replaced with John D. Caine, who did not meet the legal prerequisites for the position, and who, according to Trump, had pledged "I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.", while wearing a MAGA hat.

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    [–] 77 points 2 years ago* (15 children)

    As a Canadian, this looks worryingly like he's lining up the military leadership who will be prepared to invade Canada - not to mention Gaza, Greenland, Panama, and any parts of Europe Putin doesn't want yet.

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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Ugh .. ENLISTED MEN WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO YOU! YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED HIM!!

    This is when we need the educated officers in our military to step the fuck up and end this shit.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah, those generals should find some backers, ask their loyalists down the chain to come with them, and march on Washington.

    Defending against enemies foriegn (Musk/Putin) and domestic (Trump/Musk).

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    And so his purge of bipartisan and democratic leaders of the military allows him to ensconce lackeys that won’t question or refuse orders to invade other countries, like Canada.

    People keep on saying that America won’t invade other countries, like Panama or Canada. THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    When is America going to do a Mussolini to trump? Hopefully they dont wait as long as Fascist Italy did

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    [–] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "The removal of the second Black man to serve as America’s most senior general and the first woman to" .....and there it is.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    Imagine helping to protect your country for 40 years, only to have a felon who is offended over the existence of people with any skin colour besides white take all that away from you. I predict that a white man will be offered to take Brown's place and will be far less qualified.

    That's what all of this anti "DEI" (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is about, purging anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white male.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I see this in every thread. He was a felon when he was running. People voted for a felon. The American people wanted a criminal in the white house. The guy all previous generals who worked with him warned against. 77 million people are responsible for these firings, plus whatever many stayed home and didn't vote. His campaign promise was to replace everyone with loyalists.

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I was just talking to a friend yesterday who mentioned that the conditions for China to invade Taiwan will be optimal in three weeks based on the ocean conditions and ship movements.

    I said even if Trump wants to be the "president of peace" and avoid interfering, the generals wouldn't allow the inaction. I think my exact words were, "he would have to fire them all in the next two weeks."

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    And unfortunately, us normies don't have a prayer against a modern military intent on enforcing fascism.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago

    Remember a few months ago when Trump said he needed generals like Hitler had

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I hope the joint Chiefs already had plans in place as a contingency for this. Now is the time for a military coup. The sooner it's done, the less messy things will get

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Every single member of the military I've talked to, somehow, for some reason seems to support Trump. I'm fucking stunned by it, but it seems he has their support.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    it's about a 50/50 at my local base. The vets, on the other hand, tend to lean towards tRUmp. I have never gotten it either. Our regional congressman, or ex now, never did jack shit for us. We were a tool to get her elected every time. She didn't really do anything to help. When she left, what did they do? Idiots voted in another useless GOP.

    When PACT was first shot down, I had to actually explain why that was a bad thing and that we needed it. They bought every last fake talking point. I had actually read the measure. Anyone that did had seen why it was a good thing.

    We have a problem of propagation of fake news on bases. A lot of them show faux on the TVs in waiting areas. On top of that, it tends to be conservatives that join. Officers do tend to be less red. I really don't know what would happen if the military actually fulfilled its oath to protect against the domestic threat part of our oath.

    It is disgusting hearing fellow vets with the "I got mine" attitude, or other attitudes that are directly against the nature of service. That isn't what we were serving for.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    This shit is moving so fast. And any pushback initiative to the insanity moves so slow. I hope there will be real elections again in a few years, but it feels like game-over tbh

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Yeah, people abroad are wondering why Americans won't just stand up, but the reality is that the country is massive and you need an incredible organizing effort to offer any real, organized resistance.

    And sure, some groups have tried, but you really need your opposition party, or some kind of major celebrity, or someone else with major reach to organize something that reaches every American and pulls them together to action.

    And that just hasn't happened. Some people have spoken out, but nobody has been willing to lead that next step and really lead a movement. Words aren't gonna be enough to counter this.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago*

    It’s the same strategy used by Hitler and the nazis to seize control of Germany. They initially only got control of some of the smaller, “less important” government departments. And then they just started drastically expanding the reach of existing departments, declaring themselves to be in charge of other departments, consolidating loyalists, etc…

    The idea is that by the time opponents have time to push back, you have already seized control and are already ousting them. Court battles take months or years, but the takeover was done in a few days.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Even if Americans actually stand up to this and General Strike or something, how long will it take anyone who isn't a white man to believe pretty much anything the American government tells them?

    I was skeptical the entire country was going to fall, but now I think it is already happening. Putin won the cold war after we all thought it was over, I guess. And what a world he's provided for us...

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have been thinking that the US military is probably the final stop on Trump because they have been somewhat more rational. Well, as expected, it will no longer be the case.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is to ensure the military won't be able to stop them. Expect much more and worse soon

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is some dark shit. Removing proven leaders to promote cronies is both detrimental to our military strength and a massive red flag to our democracy. How this entire fascist takeover is being allowed is baffling to me. I genuinely fear for America.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Just prepping the landscape for the Russian takeover 😅😢

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Foreign and domestic!

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