Was Buydem over-ruled by the military on Ukraine and Israel (or is this just more DeepState propaganda?
Posted by freedomforall 3 weeks ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"In a 30-minute interview with Judge Napolitano on September 18, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and critic of America’s wars, described a recent event in which Pentagon chief Gen. Lloyd Austin told President Biden that, in Wilkerson’s words, “the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war,” meaning Ukraine and Israel.
Wilkerson added, “And so they're now in charge.” Austin, according to this telling, listened “to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth” and forced the President to back down.
Biden was furious, we’re told, but “took that advice.” Except, as Wilkerson tells it, it wasn’t advice, but instruction. “No dice,” as Wilkerson characterized the message, sounds pretty final.
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This is good news and bad news. The good, U.S. policy is now:
To Netanyahu, if you invade Lebanon or attack Iran, you’re on your own.
To Zelenskyy, no to long range missiles reaching deep into Russia.
So we and the world are safer, at least for a while.
The bad: Is this a coup? Has the military stood up to the President, forced him to change policy?"
"In a 30-minute interview with Judge Napolitano on September 18, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and critic of America’s wars, described a recent event in which Pentagon chief Gen. Lloyd Austin told President Biden that, in Wilkerson’s words, “the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war,” meaning Ukraine and Israel.
Wilkerson added, “And so they're now in charge.” Austin, according to this telling, listened “to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth” and forced the President to back down.
Biden was furious, we’re told, but “took that advice.” Except, as Wilkerson tells it, it wasn’t advice, but instruction. “No dice,” as Wilkerson characterized the message, sounds pretty final.
Share
This is good news and bad news. The good, U.S. policy is now:
To Netanyahu, if you invade Lebanon or attack Iran, you’re on your own.
To Zelenskyy, no to long range missiles reaching deep into Russia.
So we and the world are safer, at least for a while.
The bad: Is this a coup? Has the military stood up to the President, forced him to change policy?"
However, top military could be justified in holding back everywhere as the state of the US armed forces is weak. Weak not compared with Lebanon or even Iran, but inadequate for fronting Russia. Especially in facing China, forces on that front are already inferior and must not be depleted.
Ukraine can still put on headline attacks tho' their supplies are dwindling, the wonderweapons have failed.
Weakening the US military started with Obama, then continued, the effect of woke recruiting and biased promotions could take years to overcome.
Note, the Red Sea is substantially closed to commercial shipping, the US Navy has withdrawn.
A decision not based on isolationism or it is not our business, the navy does not have the requisite will with the strength allotted.
If Netanyahu got that message, which I doubt, he has successfully sidestepped by using technology. Hezbollah has been chopped. Israel now has an easier job to remove the missile launchers from the border. Note, wrong to say it was not Hezbollah who started the current violence as the article states- the missile and rocket barrages started in Oct 2023 and has meant the evacuation of some 60,000 people from the strip along the border, a big area for a small country to lose. Netanyahu will not surrender that land on any Pentagon chief's instructions.
screw anything he reports
He's more concerned with personal advancement and his glory in government than defense of Constitutional limits and liberties.