Malibu2 said:
Ellis Wyatt said:
Casey TableTennis said:
I readily recognize I at a minimum have an unpopular take, maybe even a bad take on this. If the parties were reversed, I would think this action would have the appearance to me of being somewhat more justifiable. Which is giving me the pause.
But he played the dangerous game here. And if tried and found guilty of treason, I fully support the highest level of punishment.
"Justifiable" in your mind is irrelevant. Subordinates follow orders. That is their job. Period.
Hypothetical: President Biden on his last week in office says to immediately launch nukes over Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Pyongyang. You want the military to say "yes sir, men, you have your orders, go nuke the *******s!" I would hope in that hypothetical a bit more pause and sobriety, and obfuscation or insubordination and mutiny before executing the order.
The problem here is that Milly is such a dumbass that he believed Trump would be capable of this type of order
And as I said before, no officer with an IQ above room temperature is going to nuke someone out of the blue. Especially not a freaking four star who should be in touch with the geopolitical situation
I'm not privy to how the "football" and the "codes" work, but even if Biden were to input the launch codes, someone has to carry them out. Someone has to load the bombs. At least two men on a sub or two men in a missile silo have to agree to launch.
Unless they already know we're at DEFCON 1, I don't think any will launch without a buildup before