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?

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?

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

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.

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?

Night of long knives?

I guess it’s more secure than a group chat

Chat are we cooked?

How's the pizza index doing?

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.

This isn't alarming at all!

Pentagon about to start bombing CIA aligned cartels in Mexico

So the generals are gathering in their masses?

hope the building implodes for no discernable reason

Since entering office, the Trump administration also has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.

Time to sign another pledge?

I don't know how accurate this Bluesky comment is.

This has basically never been done.

"Pledge your eternal loyalty to emperor Trump.or you're fired"

Quantico Virginia

Oh boy we kicking off WW3 early

H prob just dm’d his boys while drunk. We all do it

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.