All of the officers were involved in the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which independent reviews have blamed on both the Trump and Biden administrations.

Summary

The Trump transition team is reportedly considering investigating U.S. military leaders involved in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, with potential charges ranging from mismanagement to treason.

The effort aims to review decision-making, assess accountability for the chaotic exit, and possibly recall commanders to active duty for legal action.

Critics, including Trump and his allies, have condemned the withdrawal as a failure, citing deadly incidents like the Abbey Gate bombing and missteps in leadership.

Some insiders question the legality of such actions, while others frame the move as politically motivated.

  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
    0·
    3 months ago

    Man, there’s so many weird half-informed implications there I don’t even know where to start but Trump bad and Stalin bad so why bother?

    Sure, it’s just like that. Just like the Great Purge, no notes.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
      0·
      3 months ago

      They are considering charging people with treason though, and this is the group of people that keeps screaming about how people convicted of treason should be executed.

      … And Trump and his ilk keep saying they want to deport at least a million people a year, which is logistically impossible without directing segments of the military to do it.

      … And he keeps saying he wants to use the military to crack down on ‘the enemy within’, including military tribunals for basically any prominent politician or journalist he’s offended by, as well as any riot or protest involving anyone to his left.

      … And then there’s Stephen Miller’s Plan.

      Stephen Miller, Trump’s top immigration adviser, has publicly declared that they would pursue such an enormous effort partly by creating a private red-state army under the president’s command. Miller says a reelected Trump intends to requisition National Guard troops from sympathetic Republican-controlled states and then deploy them into Democratic-run states whose governors refuse to cooperate with their deportation drive.

      Such deployment of red-state forces into blue states, over the objections of their mayors and governors, would likely spark intense public protest and possibly even conflict with law-enforcement agencies under local control. And that conflict itself could become the justification for further insertion of federal forces into blue jurisdictions…

      That would be a … pretty… totally, complete and overt transformation of the military into an overtly partisan force, you know, potentially setting up different State’s National Guards into direct conflict with other State’s Nat. Guards and local authorities.

      … Oh and of course Trump just keeps yammering on about overtly politicizing courts, the FBI, you know, just everything.

      …

      I guess maybe … ‘baby’s first Stalin-esque purge’ would have better captured that this would likely (hopefully?) be more inept (initially, at least) than the NKVD’s mass murder campaign at basically the direct command of Stalin and Beria.

      … Or, maybe he will actually go completely nuts.

      It’s kinda the whole problem with an absurdly singly powerful person backed by a like minded, well positioned bunch of amoral cultish bureacrats, in a government system that offers fewer and fewer effectice barriers to the enacting of whatever they decree:

      You can basically only count on them being either incompetent or not sufficiently pissed off, or distracted by some other random bugaboo issue.