John Ullyot, who resigned last week as chief Pentagon spokesperson, predicted that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth will also be out of a job soon.
Ullyot called it a “strange and baffling purge” that has led to “a near collapse inside the Pentagon’s top ranks.”
And he warned that even more “bombshell” stories about Hegseth and the Defence Department are about to drop.
If what they’re doing is trying to destroy the American military apparatus, then that is just objectively good for the world.
But they aren’t. Last year’s military budget was 850,000,000,000. This year’s budget is $1,000,000,000,000. Do you destroy something by giving it more money?
Tbf not that hard to increase waste by 25%. Just think of how a new staff takes a long time to do easy work, causes rework, and generally sucks up the time of the people around them until they get the experience and skills they need to do that job.
That’s the micro scale, but in a macro scale it’s the same. Cause more waste, and not only will the money matter less, the public interest will be deteriorated and the entire foundation compromised.
Actually just check out the history of CIA ops around in foreign countries. Consider how many of those countries end up with a high inflation rate and that currency becomes more worthless in a deathspiral.
I think it’s not a single factor like “it’s orchestrated by state nation x” but I fully believe if the US is going to make itself weak then those countries like potentially Russia or China will take full advantage of it and offer a helping push. They’ll do it subtly. So it’s hard to see. But it’s just standard politics, and it would be insane to think they won’t take full advantage of a situation.