Following France, the US: some US military officers are writing open declarations that the country has reached a dangerous point, while other of their colleagues are responding that they should not do as they do
What makes “Letter 124” so special: Not only does it express obvious doubts about the mental capacity of the commander-in-chief, President Joseph Biden. And not even that it says almost directly that there has been an illegitimate seizure of power, with rigged election results. Most importantly, the military believes that the coup is ongoing, all the relentless activity of the Democrats is “destroying the republic”, i.e. democracy, i.e. America itself.
More importantly, who is writing this. It’s pretty much everyone who has been at the top of the military caste of the world’s strongest nation in the last couple of decades, well, the most muscular, to be exact (winning wars with those muscles didn’t always help). We have before us a list of names that commands respect – after all, opponents must be respected as well.
A fresh fact is that several serving senior US servicemen, questioned by journalists, are concerned about the harsh tone of a letter from their retired comrades and that they are “spreading disinformation”. But these retorts from Pentagon officials are in advance overshadowed by the obvious fact that a man on active duty – if he has something to say – cannot do otherwise, he is not as free to express himself as a retired man who can no longer be dismissed.
Although a few weeks ago a similar letter of retired officers in France provoked the authorities there to do a decent abomination and stupidity: threatening to deprive many generals and admirals who have signed it of their ranks, awards and pensions. Will they really do it? But our conversation is about the United States.
The fact is that there is a lot behind the action of 124 generals and admirals, in short – an ongoing internal coup, a hybrid civil war of one half of the country against the other. The retirees list: population control, censorship. Is this the America they have been serving for decades?
Actually, there are many such publications in the country right now. The most spectacular, perhaps – from The American Thinker – tells how at first (a few years ago) the putschists, i.e. the democrats, got the intelligence community under their thumb. As we can see from the intelligence documents that kept popping up at just the right moment about the Russian encroachment into American domestic life.
As for the armed forces, they have been purged several times by Barack Obama, and as a result some polls show satisfactory support among the military for the Democrats. Which is poorly in line with the well-known truth that in the US, the armed forces are more likely to lean towards the Republicans.
And now another power structure is next in line – the police. More precisely, a complete overhaul of it, the direct subordination of the police to the present administration and future Democratic administrations – so that no Republicans will ever come to power again. And if so, the resistance to Democrats in the American hinterland must be crushed. The author reminds us: If we count Donald Trump’s electoral successes not even by states, but by counties (districts), it turns out that Trump won 83% of all districts. The Democrats hope to crush deep America with the votes of huge Democratic electoral bases like California or Chicago – with their crowds of unemployed and on welfare.
The point here is that the police in the US are all local, subordinate not even so much to the states as to the local authorities, including through the institution of sheriffs. When mafia gangs started taking over the country in the 1930s, taking advantage of the disaster called Prohibition Law, a single federal agency, the FBI, had to be formed, but even today there is a thorough division of labour between the feds and the locals.
And now the crazy ideas of stripping the police of their allocations, while taking away their personal weapons from citizens used to them, and creating an entirely new police force entirely run from the centre, which is doomed to always be in the hands of reform-minded Democrat putschists, are on the agenda.
This task becomes even more urgent in a situation where the Republican states, the very Trumpian, deep America is not sitting back and waiting to be defeated at all – it is actively and orderly resisting, passing coordinated (between the states) patriotic education laws and much more. Incidentally, current Pentagon figures criticising their elders are actually hinting that they are being used by Trump’s America in this campaign of resistance.
Here it is appropriate to mention another recent American publication – that Joe Biden would have been the happiest president in history if he had guessed to just do nothing when he came to power. Trump’s legacy gave him a solid economic foundation and a population most afraid of continued pogroms, scandals, reprisals against dissenters. He would have put those fears to rest and sat quietly – but he (or rather those behind him) started “setting the country on fire from all ends”, including deliberately destroying the police where possible amid an unprecedented wave of crime.
Going back to the conversation about France: there the reason for the famous resignation letter seems to be different – it is primarily about the absorption of the country’s culture by migrants and those who support them. Although there is common ground: the creeping globalist upheaval across the West is simply destroying societies, by any means, and then suddenly it turns out that the “man with the gun” can also speak out against this destruction: after all, what has he been defending all his life – his country or something else?
Finally, in relatively similar processes in Russia in the 1980s-90s, we also followed the position of this or that military man. And they too wrote open letters, though not so massively. The general lesson from our past seems to be that one should treat the military, be it ours or others, retired or on active service, with respect.
Dmitry Kosyrev, RIA