BREAKING: Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling reveals that top military officers are considering disobeying Trump’s “horribly immoral and illegal” orders to bomb Iran’s civilian infrastructure.
A full-blown military rebellion may be brewing…
“I’ve trained for forty years as a soldier and as a commander,” Hertling said on MS Now. “And when you’re an officer in the United States Army, you’re loyal to a couple of things. You’re primarily loyal to the Constitution. You are also loyal to your superiors if they give, as you said, lawful orders.”
If Trump proceeds with his threat to bomb civilian infrastructure like power plants and bridges or follows through on his pronouncement that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” they would constitute the most unlawful orders imaginable. If, as he seems to be implying, Trump launches a nuclear strike on Iran, it would be the greatest crime in human history. The entire U.S. military would be honor-bound to reject the orders.
“When they start giving unlawful orders, you find a way to push back on them and to make sure they adjust their approach,” said Hertling. “But you also are loyal to the soldiers that are under your command. So those three loyalties sometimes are conflicting.”
“So I’m sure there’s a lot of military commanders right now, a lot of senior officers who are saying to themselves, ‘I can’t obey an unlawful order,'” said Hertling. “I can’t do things that I know are absolutely wrong.”
It’s worth noting that Hertling is no minor figure. He previously served as the Commanding General of the United States Army Europe and the Seventh Army. His distinguished career speaks for itself and lends a profound gravity to his assessments.
“But they also feel like they have to provide support for their soldiers who don’t just get to quit,” he continued. “They have to stay in the military and potentially see an uprising in all of these things. So the senior military officials are in a real quandary one this one because they know they can’t do some of the things that the president is asking them to do.”
“They have a Secretary of Defense who has continually said lethality is better than legality or words to that effect,” said Hertling. “So it’s really causing some dynamics within those who are thinking soldiers, saying ‘How do I continue to serve my Constitution and live by the rules that are in law and still conduct these kinds of actions which are horribly immoral and illegal.”
This is the position that our deeply evil president has placed our brave service men and women in. They’re torn between their duty to obey their commander-in-chief and the knowledge that he has revealed himself to be a genocidal psychopath in the grips of dementia.
They must side with the Constitution, the American people, and the world by rejecting any unlawful orders that Trump might deliver. The future of our planet depends upon it.- Occupy Democrats