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@FurkanGozukara Turkey?

Absolute bombshell on Fox News. An expert National Security Analyst confirms the Trump administration is completely purging the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth has fired over a dozen top generals, including the heads of the Navy and Air Force, right in the middle of a massive war.

@shanaka86 Australia?

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@TukiFromKL Africa?

🚨 let me tell you what's actually happening today.. this morning Trump fired his Attorney General.. tonight Pete Hegseth.. a man who has never held a combat command in his life.. just forced out the Army Chief of Staff.. General Randy George.. a career officer with decades of command experience.. here's the pattern nobody's connecting.. there is only one reason you fire the people at the top of your legal AND military apparatus in the same day during an active military escalation.. they said no to something.. this has one historical parallel worth knowing.. in 1951 Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War.. MacArthur was the most celebrated general in America.. a legend.. and Truman fired him anyway.. the difference is what makes today terrifying.. Truman fired MacArthur to PREVENT him from expanding the war into China.. he was stopping escalation.. Hegseth just fired his most senior general to ENABLE something.. the AG is gone.. the Army Chief of Staff is gone.. both on the same day.. both replaced by people who haven't said no yet.. we asked this morning what Trump needed done that Pam Bondi wouldn't do.. now we're asking what order Randy George refused.. and both questions have the same answer.. we just don't know what it is yet.

@VicTafur Too early to ask Minshew about fellow Mississippi native and Raiders legendary quarterback? Surprised that didn’t come up in the intro presser

Pierce has said as long as he is the Raiders coach, "we're going to have a blast." Added two definite fun personalities today.

@Scobleizer Was that Purdy or Geracie?! Loved them both

Better mail than jail, my favorite sports writer at the San Jose Mercury News used to say. He would print columns with his hate mail. I got a lot today. See the comments or reshares of this post. But there is a bigger lesson here for the AI industry: mess with people’s reality and you will get major pushback. It is why I stay away from politics. Everyone has a different upbringing, culture, and way of seeing reality itself. My son’s classmate is blind. Can I ever expect him to “see” the world the way I do? No. There are some issues that trigger people on both sides. This is one. Should I have stayed away? No. Taking on the risks of being called an idiot is how I learn and hopefully more can learn how everyone looks at this issue. That said, so few know how to convince another human being they are right. Calling someone an idiot, or worse, never changes people’s minds. Believe me I tried that a few times in my life. Love!

Rest In Peace 🌹🙏🏻🩶🖤 Rodney Jarvis "Rod" Sherman December 25, 1944 - February 6, 2024 Raiders WR, 1967 AFL champion and a man of God. May God comfort his family and especially Eric and Anne.

@VicTafur There’s my guy with the wet blanket!

Top 6 draft picks are overrated.

@LuckyovLegends Uncle Darryl with the OG stunna shades

@_willcompton Probably the milk in your protein shake

Something about linebackers Masterson and Spillane making a play really gets my juices going Idk what it is Made me jump off the couch and yell “make ‘em respect us!!” for whatever reason

@BowTiedSalesGuy Fuego

Frame the call 🤡: Can I ask some questions to learn more about you / your business? 🐲: In order to establish if we can help you i’ll have to ask a lot of questions. They’ll be centered around your reasons for wanting to use us and why you can’t get what you need from your current set up. After that we can both agree on next steps. How does that sound?

@BowTiedSalesGuy Old enough to know better but young enough to still do it. Are you gonna tell me it’s over already?

POP QUIZ You walk into a client meeting and the Prospect, an older fellow, looks at you and says: "How old are you?" How do you respond? Tell me in the comments and I'll share my answer later!

@tomsharpe Yeesh! Thank you?

@tworae May the luck of the Irish steer a drunk driver your way tonight.

If this seeps into the aquifer, kids could get addicted to tap water

@VicTafur This would rule

Derek Carr's helmet Sunday ...

When the day comes, Will you bow to your robot overloads? 👀🤔 Or will you fight?

@rahsh33m “I don’t like this…Chrissy wake up!”

Y’all need to leave that stuff alone

@bigcory00 @_YoungTruth7 Followed. This is gold.

I want y’all to keep trying @_YoungTruth7. Y’all tried to disrespect him and bruh turned into Superman 🎙#RaiderNation #broncos

@Come_Oon_Man @ahellraiserr @StillDeluzional @stfuopsec @edlova31 @GymNoJacket @_venacava_ @RepAmWatch @Imaginethat2021 @mark_w_1 @LokayFOX5 His current status seems unimpeded

@AJA_Cortes @Cernovich Jiu jitsu at 6am. Minimal impact on family schedule and start with the hardest thing I’ll do all day. Take the kids to train at night.

I’ve had multiple clients over the years, Older men with kids, They Train early in the AM. Their health matters to them, so they wake up when they have to workout. -questions about “how to make time” are wasteful. You know how. You simply don’t