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Trump’s First Executive Order May Be a Military Purge (newrepublic.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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The order could place the military under the president’s total command, like never before.

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[–] surph_ninja 4 points 4 weeks ago

Kind of already happened last round. There’s reports Mark Milley staged somewhat of a soft coup with the joint chiefs, and then they withheld troop numbers from him when he ordered a withdrawal from Afghanistan.