Summary
The Trump administration fired Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, reportedly due to past statements supporting diversity.
Chatfield, a decorated Navy pilot and Afghanistan veteran, appeared on a conservative “woke” watchlist targeting senior military officials who promoted DEI.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, leading the anti-DEI campaign, made the call, though it’s unclear if Trump directly ordered it.
Chatfield is the third top female officer dismissed under Trump. Critics warned the firings undermine military leadership and damage U.S. alliances.
They’re making sure that when the miIitary is used against civilians, there are nothing but yes-men at the higher ranks.
The general forces of the military are minorities and females now. Sure the top brass can control smaller special operations teams to their whims. But I doubt the general forces will turn on the people of the country. Think Soviets trying to stop the independence during the early 90’s. The soldiers just didn’t listen.
A lot of them are in because it can offer an escape from poverty, and training involves hammering home that they have to just follow orders. They’re going to go along like everyone else because defying orders is a big personal risk for people who are not in a position to just lose everything.
I don’t know if you know this. But a lot of the HIGH skilled Military are LGBTQ+. I lived next to three installations. I have friends in many different levels of intelligence and SF. There are many who would refuse an illegal order. They can try and DEI these people out. But it would be impossible in some departments.
I live on an island covered in military bases and have been on them both locally and elsewhere for various reasons. It’s not all MAGA, but it’s also not an environment of woke resistors. Those high skilled people ready to refuse are the exception, not the norm, and they’re not the people a declaration of martial law would rely on.
A martial law order isn’t going to look like “go shoot some hippies”, it’s going to be seizing and holding important infrastructure, setting up checkpoints, and enforcing a curfew. That stuff can all be military-speak formatted to look like just perfectly fine orders under exigent circumstances. If violence happens it will be plausibly framed as defending those “legitimate” orders, and it will likely be performed by people who are loyalists. The rest will just be there to support and protect them.
This is something more people need to understand. Military orders don’t come down as “invade that city and kill everyone”. They are a lot more specific and worded in such a way that they are almost mundane. This is by design.
One thing we used to have going for us was that most of the top brass hated Trump. They thought he was not only stupid, but also a threat to national security. That’s why Tuberville stalled all those appointments and promotions, and it’s why they are now shitcanning so many top leaders and replacing them with unqualified goons.
Especially a lot of them are in the closet too.
Trump is obsessed with looking at half-naked photos of putin riding pony.
You mean that time the USSR got coup’ed by the US who empowered the fascists there and then the eastern block starved for 10 years?
Nobody likes a quiter.