Without going into a subjective decode, someone please explain to me how we are in control of the military.
Vaccine mandates are in
They're gladly filtering patriots
Woke policies
An AF friend of mine is facing the deadline to get vaxxed and he's going to leave if they don't budge. He is a patriot. How is this type of shit benefiting us?
"Optics"? Is that what's going on here?
That's a difficult question. The military itself is not one thing, but it's similar to a country with a variety of a states with different missions/positions and different types of people. Unfortunately, we all know that many on top get there because of certain allegiances and whatnot, so I don't think there's any way to say that the "military" as a homogenous entity is on our side.
However, there could be positions and people of influence within the military who take their oath seriously and are on our side - there could even be a network of these working to advance our interests. If so, that COULD look something like the weirdness we see going on today, prior to any overt action. Then again, we truly are in bizarre-o land, so speculation is just that until we see anything real.
It depends on what you mean by "in control." Some here seem to think that in control means this whole thing is some type of scripted event with white hats pulling the strings and eventually pulling back the facade. I think that could be true in part, but I don't think it's as storybook as that sounds.
If this is a recognized (by certain groups) conflict, things are likely being measured in terms of casualties/outcomes etc. People seem to often have a very 2 dimensional view of things, but the reality is that if we're in a conflict (war) there could likely be a lot of casualties.
I, personally, don't see this being a "patriots are in control" scenario where we've already won and are awaiting a smooth unveiling (unfortunately.) It looks more like a conflict of some kind, and with conflict there are individuals trying to do harm to their opponents. I believe that good will win, but what happens before, during and after that are largely unknown.
Thanks for the perspective. Certainly seem plausible and frankly, probable.
I think I agree with you, but what I can't explain is why Trump hasn't been harmed yet. These people (theoretically) have heart attack guns. There are a million ways in which they could assassinate him if they were still mostly in control of the military or intelligence apparatus, even with his security. So how is he still holding rallies?