All the ingredients are there and it won’t take much to put it all together.

  • ReCursing
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    17 months ago

    You just need a couple of generals to say “no my orders are legitimate, theirs aren’t, mine come for the real president!” and you have a problem. And all that takes it a little bit of blackmail and bribery or a couple of high ranking useful idiots or psychopathic grifters

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      27 months ago

      Theoretically yes. But if you want to know the climate of senior officers you need look no further than the Joint Chiefs actually yelling at Trump in his office and disseminating memos on exactly what the military oath says. (Loyalty to the Constitution)

      They aren’t likely to turn anytime soon.