Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to meet on short notice in Virginia

“Final statement Alfred Jodl​

THE PRESIDENT: I call upon the Defendant Alfred Jodl.

ALFRED JODL (Defendant): Mr. President, may it please the Tribunal, it is my unshakable belief that later historians will arrive at a just and objective verdict concerning the higher military leaders and their assistants, for they and the entire German Wehrmacht with them, were confronted with an insoluble task namely, to conduct a war which they had not wanted under a commander-in-chief whose confidence they did not possess and whom they themselves only trusted within limits; with methods which frequently were in contradiction to their principles of leadership and their traditional, proved opinions; with troops and police forces which did not come under their full command; and with an intelligence service which in part was working for the enemy. And all this in the complete and clear realization that this war would decide the life or death of our beloved fatherland. They did not serve the powers of Hell and they did not serve a criminal, but rather their people and their fatherland.
As far as I am concerned, I believe that no man can do more than to try to reach the highest of the goals which appear attainable to him. That and nothing else has always been the guiding principle for my actions and for that reason, Gentlemen of the Tribunal, no matter what verdict you may pass upon me, I shall leave this courtroom with my head held as high as when I entered it many months ago.
But whoever calls me a traitor to the honorable tradition of the German Army, or whoever asserts that I remained at my post for personal and egotisticlal reasons, him I shall call a traitor to the truth. In a war such as this, in which hundreds of thousands of women and children were annihilated by layers of bombs or killed by low flying aircraft and in which partisans used every, yes, every single means of violence which seemed expedient, harsh measures, even though they may appear questionable from the standpoint of international law, are not a crime in morality or in conscience.
For I believe and avow that a man's duty toward his people and fatherland stands above every other. To carry out this duty was an honor for me and the highest law.
May this duty be supplanted in some happier future by an even higher one, by the duty toward humanity.“

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Ahhh the N-word quote (actually just precedes the snippet above about our Sean Connery helmed stealth subs) — he was talking about sending subs off the coast of Russia

I doubt it was expressly planned, but his reference to the N-word could be taken a lot of ways in context of Hegseth’s speech that preceded Trump (Trump was not there and I’m sure would never have read the speech).
 
whatntarnation said:
Physical ability has never been less important in the military. you can be as as fast a Usain Bolt and as strong as the mountain and one cheap drone takes you out just the same. I'll take 5 cross stitching drone ops over 5 Hegseths all day. What a moron.
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We’re approaching the point where the most lethal soldiers could be teenagers in a nondescript room in Dubuque with joysticks and quad 43” monitors and a half dozen cans of red Bull scattered around the floor.
 
I can't wait to hear the grasping attempts by Fox News and our board Pubs to justify the expense, effort, and unnecessary danger of having so many senior officers travel to Virginia to listen to this in person. They could have recorded this and broadcast it to the entire military. But no, they think it makes them look tough and "lethal" to bring everyone here to do it in person. Trump and Hegseth are not tough guys at all; they just play them on TV. This is what you get when you put TV personalities in charge of the government. You get a government and leadership whose motto should be "to seem, rather than to be." We've gone from Teddy Roosevelt (whatever you think about his politics, a true "tough guy") and the philosophy of "speak softly and carry a big stick" to "project your weakness and insecurity to the entire world because you can't just shut the fuck up."
 
BlooVooDoo said:
We’re approaching the point where the most lethal soldiers could be teenagers in a nondescript room in Dubuque with joysticks and quad 43” monitors and a half dozen cans of red Bull scattered around the floor.
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So essentially coders whose 9-5 has been replaced by AI?
 
BlooVooDoo said:
We’re approaching the point where the most lethal soldiers could be teenagers in a nondescript room in Dubuque with joysticks and quad 43” monitors and a half dozen cans of red Bull scattered around the floor.
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This is a good opportunity to post Neil Brennan's bit on this subject, from back in 2022:

 
CFordUNC said:
You know there are pictures of you on the internet, right? You understand that we know what you look like, right? You understand that you are among the last people who should be critiquing anyone else’s body type, yeah?
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I'm six foot three and weigh 200 lbs. What's your point?

You're pretty obsessed with me personally. Oh well.
 
rodoheel said:
I can't wait to hear the grasping attempts by Fox News and our board Pubs to justify the expense, effort, and unnecessary danger of having so many senior officers travel to Virginia to listen to this in person. They could have recorded this and broadcast it to the entire military. But no, they think it makes them look tough and "lethal" to bring everyone here to do it in person.
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Honestly, I think Hegseth and Trump are just looking for applause from the military men. To say nothing of the ego stroking (and there's plenty of that), it's great propaganda and also a warning to foes both foreign and, maybe especially, domestic.
 
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