you mean all the ones hes fired? lol. people are fucking clueless.
You need hundreds of people all working together to drop a bomb on a US city. Commanders, officers, maintenance workers, ordinance loaders, pilots, navigators, even base MPs.
You really think you can get all of these people to agree to drop a bomb on a civilian US city?
Come now.
The smaller the pieces you divide a job into, the less likely that any of the individual steps understand the entire process.
You tell one guy to bomb NYC, he’s going to stop and think about that.
You tell a hundred people to push a few buttons, and they’re just doing their job.
Relying on trained people to not do the thing they’re trained for strikes me as a bad plan.
Literally exactly what will happen. you’re assuming the people who would object would remain in these organizations. they wont.
Many of these people are trying to do their 20 and get out with retirement. They’re not going to quit like it’s a shit job at McDonald’s.
Then you can expect them to do as ordered, no? Since refusal would result in a discharge and loss of said benefits.
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The chain of command goes from the secretary of defense all the way down to the most junior enlisted personnel.
You seem to assume I meant the joint chiefs or some small hand full of senior commanders.
Generals don’t pull the trigger, and as someone else pointed out, the logistics involved with bombing a city includes hundreds of service members.
Not sure where you get off calling me clueless as my initial response exactly answers the original question.
If not for honorable service members respecting their oaths and the UCMJ, there is literally nothing stopping Trump from bombing Chicago or LA.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
as i said people are clueless. pay attention to how people are actually behaving. most frontline individuals are either dutifully following orders or quitting. the idea that the military will refuse trump is absolutely not couched in reality.
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If your point is that this mechanism won’t work, then I’m assuming your point is that nothing can stop Trump.
Doesn’t mean my answer was wrong or clueless, only that the means to stop him has failed.
If you think something else is stopping him, I’d be very curious what that might be.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You have a mioptic view of the universe of options. Expecting the established systems that have literally failed at every opportunity to somehow put a check on trump is fool hardy.
If you want him stopped you will have to stop him.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 23 hours ago
So you're saying there's literally nothing.