Truman reorganized the Armed Forces in 1947. He signed the National Security Act and created the CIA, the NSC, and put the executive branch under the Luciferian Majestic 12. Then he surrendered to the Nazis in 1952. (https://open.substack.com/pub/dianabarahona/p/project-omega-part-1)
If you have any doubts about any of this, read Cathy O'Brien's two books, Trance Formation of America and Access Denied for Reasons of National Security.
If you want to know more about the crimes of the men and women ruling America, read Brice Taylor, Thanks for the Memories. And remember, the most reliable evidence to prove a fact is eye-witness testimony.
Biden does not have competence to determine what actions will cause world war, it's not in his wheelhouse. The Pentagon does, they are perhaps the only sane adult left in the room. This is like Hunter Biden's heart doctor advising him, "You WILL stop doing cocaine, because it's going to kill you." Takes all the fun out of life. Biden has to stop being delusional, and grow up. But it's not a coup; when the world's leading experts in death tell you what's going to happen if you go down this path, --it's not your area of expertise, you're not a heart surgeon and you're not a strategic general-- you LISTEN to what that expert says. Perhaps violently snarling, like a vampire confronted with holy water, a cross, and sunlight, but you LISTEN. Not a coup.
Unfortunately he doesn't offer sources for statements like these:
> [Russian ambassador to the US Anatoly] Antonov’s sentiments [see * below] were likely echoed through existing back-channel communications used by the Department of Defense and the C.I.A.
> In the end, the message got through — Biden pulled back from giving Ukraine the permissions it sought.
So I don't think I can carry this further without confirmation from someone other than Wilkerson.
Thomas
* Antonov's statement was “if there is a conflict, it will not spread to the territory of the United States of America. I am constantly trying to convey to them one thesis that the Americans will not be able to sit it out behind the waters of this ocean. This war will affect everyone, so we constantly say – do not play with this rhetoric.”
At the moment I'm chasing down related comments by Scott Ritter regarding Biden telling Starmer to stand down. If true, it starts to fill in the event from the Biden side Short version: Ritter thinks the US nearly started a nuclear war, but avoided it. Stay tuned.
Of course, none of this could be true, or rather, none of it could be accurately characterized. But it does seem to paint a picture of Biden-Starmer saying to themselves, "Putin is bluffing," then authorizing deep-into-Russia strikes by Ukrainian missiles (which the US and UK would have to help manage), then — somehow — deciding to stand down. What caused that decision?
The COCOMs (combatant commanders) need to be dialed back. Goldwater-Nichols gives the CINCs (commanders in chief of the combatant commands) way too much power. If CENTCOM wants two aircraft carriers, he almost always gets two carriers. And so on. That he's wearing out two ships and their crews unnecessarily "showing the flag" hundreds of miles out at sea matters not a whit. These guys are like modern-day Roman centurions. Wilkerson is right; some are very very good. But none should have this kind of power in our government unless, arguably, we are at war.
Separately, the military takes their oath to support and defend the Constitution very very seriously. Although there might be some cause for concern among some of the junior officers and enlisted going along with a nutbag like Trump using the military for unconstitutional purposes, there is virtually no chance the military would go along with Trump should he try to violate posse comitatus or start a war. That's why he had to use armed thugs from DHS and the Bureau of Prisons during the largely peaceful George Floyd riots. The military wouldn't have played ball. Their loyalty is not to the President, it's to the Constitution.
Now we all know that some right wing judges in TX and LA as well as insane congress critters from those and other deep red areas think they run they country, but I don;t think we are quite to that point yet.
The COCOMs (combatant commanders) need to be dialed back. Goldwater-Nichols gives the CINCs (commanders in chief of the combatant commands) way too much power. If CENTCOM wants two aircraft carriers, he almost always gets two carriers. And so on. That he's wearing out two ships and their crews unnecessarily "showing the flag" hundreds of miles out at sea matters not a whit. These guys are like modern-day Roman centurions. Wilkerson is right; some are very very good. But none should have this kind of power in our government unless, arguably, we are at war.
Separately, the military takes their oath to support and defend the Constitution very very seriously. Although there might be some cause for concern among some of the junior officers and enlisted going along with a nutbag like Trump using the military for unconstitutional purposes, there is virtually no chance the military would go along with Trump should he try to violate posse comitatus or start a war. That's why he had to use armed thugs from DHS and the Bureau of Prisons during the largely peaceful George Floyd riots. The military wouldn't have played ball. Their loyalty is not to the President, it's to the Constitution.
I think you are overreacting in calling it a constitutional coup. The operational sentence is at the end of your quote,” But I think it was Austin that convinced Biden to give him that command so he could transmit it to Kurilla.”. The chain of command was preserved. Basically the military convinced Biden that Sullivan and Blinken were out of their minds area of competence and that the risk of nucleur war was too high. Thank God that they did.
It is hyperbolic to label as a coup the replacement of one group of advisors by another. Biden is likely incompetent mentally, in the irritable phase of dementia as displayed by his reaction to reporter’s questions before his statement on the meeting with Starmer. The historical analogy would be Woodrow Wilson after his stroke and Edith Wilson replacing House as the power behind the throne. But we are on the edge of nucleur war, and the worry is that a non-demented Kamala Harris will throw in her lot with the Blinken-Sullivan-Nuland deep state view of how to act in foreign policy, and her gamble that Putin is bluffing will turn out wrong. Then it will be like the series of events playing out before WW1 except on a time scale of minutes, not days.
When Esper slow-walked Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal he fired him. Insubordination is not uncommon in the military chain of command. Unfortunately no boomer generals were insubordinate while Bush mismanaged the GWOT…to a hammer everything is a nail. In fact the only boomer general that resigned in protest was Mattis over Syria when he was a civilian!! WTF???
Not surprising even to me just a reader of books, unlike you who have professional experience and first hand knowledge. The MIC is in control and have been, basically, since WW II. We should realize that after Ike made his farewell address and warned us about it. Who would know better than him, the General of the Army in WW II, actually below Marshall, though in charge of the European theater. JFK would tell you that too, if he could have, but he had an unfortunate accident. Oh, well, nothing I can do about it but voice my concern. Lucky we're not living in Gaza or Ukraine, or North Korea.
We've heard similar reports in the past. All turned out to be wishful thinking.
Unless and until we get confirmation, I would take this with a grain of salt.
That said, I would think it is the job of the military to tell the president what they can and cannot realistically achieve,. lest the figurehead's mouth start writing checks that his ass cannot cash.
So, you think it's a good idea to give control to the military branch? That isn't how our government is supposed to operate. We don't elect them. Sure, they can advise and consult. That's their job, but not to make the final decisions.
If President Trump invoked the Insurrection Act in January 2021--(https://dianabarahona.substack.com/p/we-are-in-a-military-coup-cia-officer)--it should come as no surprise that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have authority over not only the executive, but of Congress and the Supreme Court.
With regards to the interesting newspaper story (I wasn't aware that Truman had fired MacArthur) Truman was a traitor. He was a Freemason, which means he governed the U.S.A. on behalf of a foreign government--the Holy See--and a foreign military--the Sovereign Military Order of Knights Templars. In other words, Lucifer. (https://open.substack.com/pub/dianabarahona/p/foreign-powers-occupying-the-us?r=wn91x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
Truman reorganized the Armed Forces in 1947. He signed the National Security Act and created the CIA, the NSC, and put the executive branch under the Luciferian Majestic 12. Then he surrendered to the Nazis in 1952. (https://open.substack.com/pub/dianabarahona/p/project-omega-part-1)
If you have any doubts about any of this, read Cathy O'Brien's two books, Trance Formation of America and Access Denied for Reasons of National Security.
If you want to know more about the crimes of the men and women ruling America, read Brice Taylor, Thanks for the Memories. And remember, the most reliable evidence to prove a fact is eye-witness testimony.
Biden does not have competence to determine what actions will cause world war, it's not in his wheelhouse. The Pentagon does, they are perhaps the only sane adult left in the room. This is like Hunter Biden's heart doctor advising him, "You WILL stop doing cocaine, because it's going to kill you." Takes all the fun out of life. Biden has to stop being delusional, and grow up. But it's not a coup; when the world's leading experts in death tell you what's going to happen if you go down this path, --it's not your area of expertise, you're not a heart surgeon and you're not a strategic general-- you LISTEN to what that expert says. Perhaps violently snarling, like a vampire confronted with holy water, a cross, and sunlight, but you LISTEN. Not a coup.
Scott Ritter update
The only source I found for Ritter's comments is here:
https://archive.is/J5x0K (Consortium News)
Unfortunately he doesn't offer sources for statements like these:
> [Russian ambassador to the US Anatoly] Antonov’s sentiments [see * below] were likely echoed through existing back-channel communications used by the Department of Defense and the C.I.A.
> In the end, the message got through — Biden pulled back from giving Ukraine the permissions it sought.
So I don't think I can carry this further without confirmation from someone other than Wilkerson.
Thomas
* Antonov's statement was “if there is a conflict, it will not spread to the territory of the United States of America. I am constantly trying to convey to them one thesis that the Americans will not be able to sit it out behind the waters of this ocean. This war will affect everyone, so we constantly say – do not play with this rhetoric.”
Thanks, all, for a fruitful discussion!
At the moment I'm chasing down related comments by Scott Ritter regarding Biden telling Starmer to stand down. If true, it starts to fill in the event from the Biden side Short version: Ritter thinks the US nearly started a nuclear war, but avoided it. Stay tuned.
Of course, none of this could be true, or rather, none of it could be accurately characterized. But it does seem to paint a picture of Biden-Starmer saying to themselves, "Putin is bluffing," then authorizing deep-into-Russia strikes by Ukrainian missiles (which the US and UK would have to help manage), then — somehow — deciding to stand down. What caused that decision?
More to come? Not sure, but I'm looking.
Thomas
The COCOMs (combatant commanders) need to be dialed back. Goldwater-Nichols gives the CINCs (commanders in chief of the combatant commands) way too much power. If CENTCOM wants two aircraft carriers, he almost always gets two carriers. And so on. That he's wearing out two ships and their crews unnecessarily "showing the flag" hundreds of miles out at sea matters not a whit. These guys are like modern-day Roman centurions. Wilkerson is right; some are very very good. But none should have this kind of power in our government unless, arguably, we are at war.
Separately, the military takes their oath to support and defend the Constitution very very seriously. Although there might be some cause for concern among some of the junior officers and enlisted going along with a nutbag like Trump using the military for unconstitutional purposes, there is virtually no chance the military would go along with Trump should he try to violate posse comitatus or start a war. That's why he had to use armed thugs from DHS and the Bureau of Prisons during the largely peaceful George Floyd riots. The military wouldn't have played ball. Their loyalty is not to the President, it's to the Constitution.
And Congress can refuse to appropriate money for uses (domestic deployments) it does not approve of. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/domestic-military-deployments-and-the-limitations-of-appropriations-law
Now we all know that some right wing judges in TX and LA as well as insane congress critters from those and other deep red areas think they run they country, but I don;t think we are quite to that point yet.
The COCOMs (combatant commanders) need to be dialed back. Goldwater-Nichols gives the CINCs (commanders in chief of the combatant commands) way too much power. If CENTCOM wants two aircraft carriers, he almost always gets two carriers. And so on. That he's wearing out two ships and their crews unnecessarily "showing the flag" hundreds of miles out at sea matters not a whit. These guys are like modern-day Roman centurions. Wilkerson is right; some are very very good. But none should have this kind of power in our government unless, arguably, we are at war.
Separately, the military takes their oath to support and defend the Constitution very very seriously. Although there might be some cause for concern among some of the junior officers and enlisted going along with a nutbag like Trump using the military for unconstitutional purposes, there is virtually no chance the military would go along with Trump should he try to violate posse comitatus or start a war. That's why he had to use armed thugs from DHS and the Bureau of Prisons during the largely peaceful George Floyd riots. The military wouldn't have played ball. Their loyalty is not to the President, it's to the Constitution.
I think you are overreacting in calling it a constitutional coup. The operational sentence is at the end of your quote,” But I think it was Austin that convinced Biden to give him that command so he could transmit it to Kurilla.”. The chain of command was preserved. Basically the military convinced Biden that Sullivan and Blinken were out of their minds area of competence and that the risk of nucleur war was too high. Thank God that they did.
It is hyperbolic to label as a coup the replacement of one group of advisors by another. Biden is likely incompetent mentally, in the irritable phase of dementia as displayed by his reaction to reporter’s questions before his statement on the meeting with Starmer. The historical analogy would be Woodrow Wilson after his stroke and Edith Wilson replacing House as the power behind the throne. But we are on the edge of nucleur war, and the worry is that a non-demented Kamala Harris will throw in her lot with the Blinken-Sullivan-Nuland deep state view of how to act in foreign policy, and her gamble that Putin is bluffing will turn out wrong. Then it will be like the series of events playing out before WW1 except on a time scale of minutes, not days.
When Esper slow-walked Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal he fired him. Insubordination is not uncommon in the military chain of command. Unfortunately no boomer generals were insubordinate while Bush mismanaged the GWOT…to a hammer everything is a nail. In fact the only boomer general that resigned in protest was Mattis over Syria when he was a civilian!! WTF???
Not surprising even to me just a reader of books, unlike you who have professional experience and first hand knowledge. The MIC is in control and have been, basically, since WW II. We should realize that after Ike made his farewell address and warned us about it. Who would know better than him, the General of the Army in WW II, actually below Marshall, though in charge of the European theater. JFK would tell you that too, if he could have, but he had an unfortunate accident. Oh, well, nothing I can do about it but voice my concern. Lucky we're not living in Gaza or Ukraine, or North Korea.
Nope, Bush was firmly in charge after 9/11…don’t blame that on the Deep State.
Alek, so are you Lee returning from the dead ... lol
We've heard similar reports in the past. All turned out to be wishful thinking.
Unless and until we get confirmation, I would take this with a grain of salt.
That said, I would think it is the job of the military to tell the president what they can and cannot realistically achieve,. lest the figurehead's mouth start writing checks that his ass cannot cash.
So, you think it's a good idea to give control to the military branch? That isn't how our government is supposed to operate. We don't elect them. Sure, they can advise and consult. That's their job, but not to make the final decisions.
Who said anything about "final decisions"? Or a "good idea"?
The whole story is vague. Although I suppose Austin could resign, with the effect of throwing the entire enterprise into chaos.