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Hegseth just decapitated the US Army. In 24 hours, he fired his Army Chief of Staff, the chief of its training command, and its top chaplain. War is raging in the Middle East. Thousands of US soldiers are being deployed. The most critical phase of the Iran War is upon the USA. Why would Hegseth handicap his forces by making such drastic, disruptive cuts ? Imagine : the man responsible for the whole Army, the Man responsible for training all the soldiers, the Man responsible for caring to all their spiritual needs. All gone, in one day. With only one replaced, the Chief of Staff, by Hegseth former assistant... Why ? Because of what is to come. Decisions they would have never agreed with. It is ominous. Dark and dangerous days are coming. #IranWar‌ @SecWar #uspoli #cdnpoli #Euronews

@shanaka86 If the Army Chief of Staff was asked to retire with this kind of resume….during the middle of a war…..it means he has a conscious and refused to violate it.

@shanaka86 @BrakeEelko "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," said Hamlet once. But we know what Will Shakespeare really meant.

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

Maia Sandu in Riga: “Supporting Ukraine, anchoring Moldova in the EU, and defending the integrity of our democracies are not three separate objectives. They have the same strategic logic. … Not as an act of generosity. As an act of strategic coherence.” presedinte.md/eng/discursuri…

Few thing hurt as much as seeing this done to your city and country as a whole. Soul-crushing is the word that comes to mind. Just devastating sadness and helplessness. I can smell the burning in the air, massive headache from no sleep and birds singing, welcoming the morning.

And there it is.

I remember the first piece of advice I got on briefing President Trump in 2017: He doesn’t read. Bring pictures. Only try to impress ONE thing on him. And if there has to be words, single page only.

JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the bizarre, post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

The same day that Hegseth fires multiple senior army leaders, he announces that individuals "trusted" by the administration will be able to carry arms on base... On the same day Trump is purging his cabinet... This is like coup level shit.

How the game is played now, apparently

That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

The United Nations announces that the population of Earth is projected to hit 8,000,000,000 (8 billion) by the year 2010. The current world population is 3.9 billion.

The Bicentennial American Freedom Train arrives in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Skála Centre, the first modern shopping mall in Hungary, opens in Budapest.

The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is held at The Hague, Netherlands. Pop group Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, wins with entry “Save Your Kisses for Me.”

This is the proud language of a white supremacist. There’s no other way to describe it and no defense of it. Pure racism.

A traitor to the democratic world and a supporter of the biggest criminals, including Putin, @JDVance is going to Hungary to support another traitor and criminal, @PM_ViktorOrban . Criminals are attracted to criminals.

It's likely that experienced generals are telling Hegseth his Iran war plans are unworkable, disastrous, and deadly. Also, Hegseth is firing a ton of experienced generals right now.