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How would you like to be a senior United States military officer?

Old_JoeOld_Joe
in Off-Topic
Think about this as Trump takes us closer to war with our NATO allies over Greenland:

If you are a senior officer in the active chain of command, you will be legally and morally obligated to refuse illegal orders from "Bone-spur" Trump and "Whisky" Hegseth.

If you do, you will immediately be stripped of rank, fired and stripped of your pension.

And if you don't, there will surely come a day when this "administration" is no longer in power, and there is a good chance that you will be stripped of rank, fired and lose your pension.

How would you like to be a senior United States military officer right now?

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  • MarkMark
    Tough call but I would refuse the illegal order. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't.

    Military rank and pension can be reinstated once removed although it's a tough process.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    If the "men" in the United States Congress had any vestige of gonads they would declare, RIGHT NOW that any order to use military force re Greenland WILL BE an illegal order. Lets give those guys some protection.
  • CrashCrash
    Great idea! Glad you thought of it!
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    I could have sworn that we are all paying the Democratic leaders salaries. It would sure be nice if THEY thought of it.
  • MarkMark
    We have plenty of water balloons ready to deploy.
  • AnnaAnna
    The problem is that since the SCOTUS is willing to ignore both the Constitution and the laws, how can a military leader judge what is or is not legal? Once refusing to use a large body of troops in an "illegal" operation, what is next? A military attack on the SCOTUS before they send you to be executed? At the minimum you might lose your position and your benefits. My country or my security might not be seen the same by you and that military leader. The packing of the courts has made things shift from legal to authoritarian.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    "How can a military leader judge what is or is not legal?"

    Précisément. That is why if a majority of congressional members were to declare that any attempt to use military force in Greenland will be an illegal order, it will provide the military the future crutch to lean on if they refuse the order.

    That situation will not be resolved by any long-winded court challenge. That situation is going to be resolved by a major political confrontation and chaos likely to result in removal of Trump from the white House. It will be very messy, but at least it will force a major change in the present government, one way or another, without an actual military invasion of a long-standing American ally, and the subsequent irreversible destruction of United States world relationships.

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