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Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation | The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass.

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/hegseth-firing-military-leaders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.IyiC.q0SpxO2v-zTw

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  • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We know why. They’ve literally been talking about loyalty to one person for an entire decade now.

    The media are the only ones pretending to be confused.

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  • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hm turns out it’s all the people who didn’t like the taste of Putin’s butthole.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh… I think we why whisky leaks would be doing this

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    • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bill Kristol (conservative commentator I think) also questioned it on tweeter:

      x.com/BillKristol/status/1983909906664059280

      Purges of senior military officers.

      If this were happening elsewhere, we’d understand right away what was happening.

      It’s hard to grasp that it’s happening here. But it is…

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