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John Ullyot, who resigned last week as chief Pentagon spokesperson, predicted that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth will also be out of a job soon.

Ullyot called it a “strange and baffling purge” that has led to “a near collapse inside the Pentagon’s top ranks.”

And he warned that even more “bombshell” stories about Hegseth and the Defence Department are about to drop.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When it's not working, it's working. The destruction of American military might was the objective from the start. Just look at who benefits the most by this.

It's Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.

When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.

All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they've cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pigler! It's right there!

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If what they’re doing is trying to destroy the American military apparatus, then that is just objectively good for the world.

But they aren’t. Last year’s military budget was 850,000,000,000. This year’s budget is $1,000,000,000,000. Do you destroy something by giving it more money?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

No, but when you remove your best officers and replace them with "yes" people, then the military is fucked. Hitler is a classic for wrecking the Wehrmacht leadership.

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago

Tbf not that hard to increase waste by 25%. Just think of how a new staff takes a long time to do easy work, causes rework, and generally sucks up the time of the people around them until they get the experience and skills they need to do that job.

That's the micro scale, but in a macro scale it's the same. Cause more waste, and not only will the money matter less, the public interest will be deteriorated and the entire foundation compromised.

Actually just check out the history of CIA ops around in foreign countries. Consider how many of those countries end up with a high inflation rate and that currency becomes more worthless in a deathspiral.

I think it's not a single factor like "it's orchestrated by state nation x" but I fully believe if the US is going to make itself weak then those countries like potentially Russia or China will take full advantage of it and offer a helping push. They'll do it subtly. So it's hard to see. But it's just standard politics, and it would be insane to think they won't take full advantage of a situation.