Former Top General Breaks Silence on Trump

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“The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Seq Brown Jr.”

is breaking his silence. And he is torching Donald Trump in an op-ed for foreign policy magazine and in a recent panel discussion before the Aspen Institute. He was not holding back. He was calling out the Trump regime for firing some of our top generals

and top admirals for political reasons, frankly, for racist and misogynistic reasons. As well, he was calling out Pete Exith. And of course, he did use some diplomatic language and how he did it. But he brought this forward in a July 4th message where if you read between the lines or actually read the lines, he compares Donald Trump to the kings of yesterday year under

the rule when the United States was ruled by Britain and there was a monarchy. And he describes how the American experiment was pushing back against monarchs and kings

“who would put their military as civilian police.”

Let me show you.

I mean, this is some powerful stuff.

Here's how the Wall Street Journal characterized it. Former top general warns the military is being politicized. And for those who know Seeku Brown, Jr., they know that for him to get to this level, he is sounding the red alarm folks. Seeku Brown who was fired as Trump's top general by Exith early on.

Question Donald Trump's handling of the armed forces. And it goes on to talk about how he published this essay. On Friday, also with two co-authors, where he cautioned that sending the military into American cities for politically contentious missions like under the guise of fighting crime, risk compromising its traditionally a political role and diverting it from combat missions.

And then he went and wrote this op-ed in Foreign Affairs magazine following an appearance

at the Aspen Institute where he basically said Donald Trump's behaving like a tyrant.

I'll get to that in a moment. Seeku Brown told the Aspen Institute what's starting to happen right now. It's not about merit. What the was about merit and Seeku Brown, Jr. wouldn't have been fired. He was appointed by Donald Trump in 2020 as the Air Force Chief of Staff.

And then he was appointed by former President Biden, basically unanimously, every Senate who wanted him to be on there. And then Donald Trump fired him because Pete Hexith didn't want a black leader of the chair as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Let's just call it what it is and not mince our words, folks.

Let's talk about what he wrote for Foreign Policy magazine. Here it is. The military and the republic, what America's armed forces can and cannot do for democracy.

I thought this was one of the most powerful parts where he says the ideal was better than

reality 250 years ago. And so it is today the military must protect the respect that it is earned from American society by scrupulously following all lawful orders and by demonstrating every day that it is nonpartisan in so doing service members honor the oath they swear, not to a particular party or political leader, but to the Constitution itself, what is at stake ultimately

is the moral fabric from which the military draws its deepest strength as Lieutenant General how more observed in his 1992 book we were soldiers once and young American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on TV they don't fight for mom or apple pie the American flag they fight for one another this is the same mutual obligation that at its core defines citizenship itself the country's liberty depends on a mutual commitment to one another

regardless of color, creed, party or military service we get to that in a moment but I want

goes celebrations of America's founding and reflections on its ideals often overlooked the

“central role of civil military relations this is a mistake in the declaration of independence”

a chief complaint was that King George III affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power George Washington himself worried about this abuse of power

and went to great pains to avoid it in his own career throughout the revolutionary war he constantly

deferred to the continental congress despite its calamitous delays and erratic instructions because he recognized that his authority over the continental army flowed from the people's referees that in his given his immense personal popularity he was often encouraged to address this or that political dysfunction but he knew that the republic would suffer in the long run if the military were to become an instrument of the commander's will rather than of the political

leaders the people's political leaders hello then he goes on to say in the face of genuine national disaster the public will readily embrace the military's help during the great depression for instance Herbert Hoover directed the military to set up relief camps and president Franklin Roosevelt ordered it to establish the civilian conservation corps which put unemployment to work to develop public land but when presidents use the armed forces for more politically contentious missions

such as addressing crime in cities the work of the military becomes more fraught resorting to a military solution rather than fixing the underlying incapacity or dysfunction in civil institutions diverts the military from focusing on its primary combat mission and as washing to new it is not the military's job to save the republic from political impasse indeed if you ask too much of the military you risk the entire enterprise you risk the

entire damn enterprise could he be any clearer folks well he can be he says the lesson is critical

today he's like okay if I haven't been that clear let me just spell it out for you before I conclude here the lesson is critical today throughout this year of remembrance the military has played an outside ceremonial role asking the uniform military to serve in an honor guard lead a parade or conduct stirring flyovers make sense the military excels at ceremony and provides a unifying symbol and these acts help citizens look with pride in the republic's capacity for strength and

really resilience they may even inspire some to join the ranks of all volunteer forces but they should not be seen as a military monopoly on patriotism instead patriotism means recognizing the promise of America's founding the progress of its past and the potential of a shared future patriots should also find inspiration to serve in government or to deepen their

“involvement in local communities the military can help by honoring the important national service”

that civilians do out of uniform now he previously spoke at Harvard at the institute of politics there and here he is speaking out about the Trump war crimes in Manab let's play this clip most of y'all know the United States made a horrible mistake and hit an Iranian

girl's school during the first wave of attacks that killed about 175 people most of them were

young women who were under the age of 13 and the initial explanation they came out was mixed to the president said the Iranians did it the off so the secretary defense public fair said the advanced AI model did it the military to their credit said we made a mistake and there have been different explanations for that too so at least to the question chairman is when there's a targeting process like that or later down the road if there is a more autonomous type weapon

and you're trying to figure out who should be accountable in a situation like that which has

“always been super important to the US military how did you thought about that it's a really hard”

question it is but I still think there's a commander or someone that signs off on you know whether it's a analyst that signs off this is a good try you know in this example that you just talk about the school you know when things get recharacterizer you have bad intel or late intel I mean the same

was a Chinese embassy yeah right yeah and you could slob it you could slob it you see you can make those kinds of mistakes you know based on the data you have but the big picture here is you know I

see the commander's ultimately responsible but there may be somebody down at a lower level that

“that should be checking he's thinking that that's why you want to have a human or loop that can”

cross check it against it this is there's even look right this is makes sense based on our experience which is why I think it's still important that we we understand some of the basic you know fundamentals so we don't just keep back and let AI do it all and go it was AI's fault and then then you know who's who is it the person to ask the prop is a developer the AI he has it you know you could go down you know several different lawsuits to figure out who would ultimately be

responsible right the issue is we got to figure out how to in a conflict how do you continue to keep moving forward and making sure we're we're being effective but also doing things online with the law of unconflict okay thank you here he talked about how the United States rushed to war with the Ron and it had disastrous results play this clip I think the right capability for our warfighter

“both on the offensive and defensive and our casual numbers could match you know equivalent of war”

two or eight or eight not which is not something we had we've had to deal with mostly throughout my career and so we we can't walk in with a bunch of hubris of this won't happen to us but we just saw it happen with 13 service members that have been killed 350 or so that had been entered and not to mention number aircraft that had been lost which you know that's not something we haven't lost a lot of aircraft particularly like an AWAC sitting on a ramp and those are the kinds of things that

should shock us a bit into reality that you know war and going into a conflict is not something we you know it's just take lightly we gotta take it seriously because you're putting many women's lives at risk and I'll just tell you personally you know what every loss and impacts me because I know someone's going to show up in their dressing or formed a knock on somebody's door to tell them you know your son your daughter your husband or wife is no longer with

and that just disrupt a family and that that would have allowing me yeah thank you gentlemen

and finally here he was talking on this panel about the erosion of our promotion boards

in the military and he's responding to a question about how Pete Higgsith is allowing a patchy helicopters to do flyovers with kid rock and how after there's discipline then Higgsith says I'm overturning the discipline right there I'm overturning the discipline this goes back to the essay that he wrote in foreign policy magazine where he says doing shit likes he's doing stuff like that erodes the very confidence of our military it makes us weaker it doesn't make us look stronger

you think the rest of the world looks at that crap goes all look called puff they are know they

“think we're clown shows that's what he's saying that's what general cq brown is saying here play this”

clip there were certain things that would never have even crossed our minds that over the past

couple days I've seen that they're making nervous for the institution this sounds funny but an army helicopter doing an overflight of kid rock that's like super unprofessional the secretary defense deciding there's going to be no accountability for that when the uniform military says that they'll be held accountable is crazy the secretary defense pulling members off a one-star promotion list for reasons that are almost certainly to do with

their identity is crazy that would never that's not something that would have happened before so again chairman uh you know you're too professional with comment on news because that's not your role but you can just talk about if you're the chairman and you're thinking about civilian political pointy leadership what role do they have to build that trust in the institution well part of this you know you think about the role of the military member of the senior

level particularly as a chairman of your providing advice and in part of being able to provide advice of how you would handle those types of situations and I'll just tell you just like you I'm concerned I don't have all the facts on some of these but having had to deal with situations of unauthorized flybys as a commander having set on promotion boards review results from promotion boards I know they're fair based on merit and if what I'm hearing is being reported

showing that people that are all giving it fair opportunity no one wants to be advanced or just

“advantage based on their background they just want to have opportunity to compete and once you've”

gone through a promotion board and having set on promotion boards they said for my experience they've

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