The Kingdom of Thailand has a long history of military coups. I
DO NOT endorse all these coups, but some of them, imho, were actually good! I viewed the military as providing an extra branch of government, rarely standing up to provide "checks and balances." For example the 1991 coup d'état led by Suchinda overthrew a VERY corrupt government and installed the highly-respected centrist Anand Panyarachun as acting PM to form a civilian govenment. The junta emphasized that its action was temporary by scheduling general elections for the next year. (There was another crisis when the pro-criminal coalition won the next year's election, but that can hardly be blamed on the original coup.)
I am NOT saying military coups are generally good, nor that they should be encouraged. But a country suffering from severe kakistocracy may need to seek remedy wherever it can.
Gen. Thomas Bussiere, a top Air Force General who was nominated by Trump to become the next Air Force Chief of Staff, resigned after Hegseth/Trump’s farce of a military meeting this week.
Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere is retiring from the Air Force after his nomination to be Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force was withdrawn.
www.airandspaceforces.com
This saddens me a lot. Let me explain why.
Military officers don't follow politics even a fraction as much as message-boarders like us Infidels! For many generals, listening to the Two Idiots at the Tuesday meeting may have come as a major shock! Of course they'd heard rumors that the country had been turned over to psychopaths and idiots, but now they saw it with their own eyes.
I had hopes that these generals would confer among themselves and agree on a path of resistance. I know that would be "un-American" but the whole Trump government has become far FAR more un-American than anyone ever imagined could happen.
And here comes a
four-star General who suddenly understands the scope of the idiocy and he ... RESIGNS, inviting the Idiots to appoint a Trumplicker in his stead! Ugh! Ugh!
