Gen Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran - Jan 3, 2021

[ouch]

Inside the mind of a mad man ready to start a conventional war with Iran on or after Jan 3, 2021 was thwarted by Gen Milley and members of the National Security Team. I suspected myself that Trump would try something like this after his 2020 election loss to Biden in order to secure himself in office as the war president during a full blown war. My thanks especially to Gen Milley.

Trump reportedly made an ominous comment to his national security advisers days before the Capitol riot

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The New Yorker reports that Trump gathered Milley, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and other advisers for a Jan. 3 meeting about Iran, hoping to take military action. The national security team finally persuaded Trump against a missile strike, so Trump pivoted to chat about his upcoming rally on Jan. 6, the day Congress was set to certify his election loss. Trump, who had already promised a "wild" protest, reportedly commented: "It's gonna be a big deal ... You're ready for that, right?" It was reportedly the last interaction Milley had with Trump.

 

[ataraxia]

Trump was a bullet that whizzed by America’s ear. He really stressed our system of democracy almost to the breaking point. It creaked and groaned. You could hear the ominous snapping of ropes hear and there under the weight, like the senate and the DOJ. It often came down to the courts as the last line of defense. But it held in the end, thank goodness.

The vulnerabilities in the system have been exposed. Now the main question is how do we strengthen it to make sure this never happens again. This was too close for comfort. There will be other Trumps in the future, if not he himself again in 2024.

 

[ouch]

Trump was a bullet that whizzed by America’s ear. He really stressed our system of democracy almost to the breaking point. It creaked and groaned. You could hear the ominous snapping of ropes hear and there under the weight, like the senate and the DOJ. It often came down to the courts as the last line of defense. But it held in the end, thank goodness.

The vulnerabilities in the system have been exposed. Now the main question is how do we strengthen it to make sure this never happens again. This was too close for comfort. There will be other Trumps in the future, if not he himself again in 2024.

Indeed that question comes with a heavy pounding heart that awaits its heart surgeon in order to survive. If not for the hand full of Generals since 2017 and their dedication to protect America for what it stands for, her heart would have flatlined. True, the stressors on her heart are not over with. Unless our justice system doesn't go full bore on America's Trumplican Cancer spreading as quickly as the Coronavirus, America of seasoned will cease to be. That isn't a call, on my part, to destroy the Republican Party. It's a call to rebuild that party so that the Democratic Party can return to working in cooperation with it again. With the clock already ticking on this planet's survival, we're now watching our current clock tick, tick tick on Democracy and both are running out of time. Justice must strike hard and long or it's over. imo