Wow! Homerun Sundance! But So Worrisome
CTH at its best. Basically, I just want to record that I agree with sundance's characterization of what's going on: The “Coup” Against a Sitting U.S. President Became Official on October 29th, 2019 . I'll paste in sundance's brief introductory analysis. What you need to do, then, is read the excerpts from Vindman's testimony at CTH. I assumed it was a lot of garbage and hadn't read it to this point. Well, it IS garbage--he's saying that his "concerns" "feelings" etc. trump the President. That as an NSC official and a US military officer he instructed, "counseled", a foreign official to ignore requests from the President of the United States. What's so stunning about this is the acquiesence of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the unmistakable significance that this has--the utter political corruption of our top level miltary command. The testimony and the efforts of the Dem lawyers to evade--Vindman's own twisting and turning under examination by John Ratcliffe are truly remarkable, in every sense of the word. Bravo, Rep. Ratcliffe.
However, Here's something that sundance--quite surprisingly--doesn't point out. Republicans control the US Senate. That means they chair every single committee in the Senate. I have not heard that they are calling the top military officials of this country to testify about what just transpired. Are we to take it that the US Senate has no views on the involvement of the military in domestic politics, and in an impeachment attempt that appears in fact to be a coup attempt? What's going on there? Is this still a republic?
The word “coup” shifted to a new level of formalized meaning last week when members of the political resistance showed up to remove President Trump wearing military uniforms.
Not only did U.S. military leadership remain silent to the optics and purpose, but in the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman he admits to giving instructions to ignore the instructions from a sitting United States President.
In the absence of push-back from the Joint Chiefs, from this moment forth, the impression is tacit U.S. military support for the Vindman objective.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official, testified before congressional committees conducting an impeachment inquiry on October 29 , wearing a full military uniform.
To date there has been no visible comment from U.S. military sanctioning Lt. Col. Vindman for his decision; or correcting the impression represented by Vindman’s military appearance. The willful blindness is concerning, but it gets much worse.
Beyond the debate about the optics of the “coup “, within the testimony of Lt. Col Vindman, the witness readily admits to understanding the officially established policy of the President of The United States (an agreement between President Trump and President Zelenskyy), and stunningly admits that two weeks later he was giving countermanding instructions to his Ukrainian counterpart to ignore President Trump’s policies.
The coup against President Donald Trump went from soft , to hard .