Pete Hegseth asked U.S. Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey to retire in October after Holsey expressed concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s boat bombings in the Caribbean, according to a new report.
On Wednesday, the _Wall Street Journal_published a report that cited two unnamed Pentagon officials, who said Hegseth asked the admiral to step down in “a de facto ouster that was the culmination of months of discord between Hegseth and the officer” after Holsey expressed “concerns about the legality of lethal strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.”
Shortly after, Hegseth announced that Holsey – the commander of U.S. Southern Command – would be retiring.
It must suck to have worked their entire life moving up to such a respectable position only for a measly infantry officer and shitty alcoholic tv personality to swoop in, be your boss, and fire you for doing the right thing. Life really does just favor some of us.
I’m not sure it favors some of us, as it’s a sign all of us collectively have gotten waaay too comfortable letting pieces of shit off the hook for their behavior. If we ever make it out of this I think we need to swing pretty hard the other direction on ‘tolerating’ people being total fucking assholes to everyone else in their career, in politics, in public. Call that shit out, shun them, make them understand freedom of speech does not allow you to literally spew hate speech, threaten people, and generally be a corrupt asshole. None of anyone’s behavior in the GOP since basically 2016, is okay. Obviously this has been going far longer, but 2016 election is when it went full gloves off.
The problem is the system that was set up hundreds of years ago (“liberal democracy”) ended up just incentivizing psychopathy. This system always brings the worst people in society up to the top. Either in government or business.
You can’t be a genuinely good person and become a general, a congressperson or a billionaire.
No, it was this officer’s greatest joy to be relieved of command by a puny puke who will soon be rung up on charges by the ICC. He spoke truth to power as was his duty and now he is free of the consequences of his commander’s choices. I’m sure he will drink a toast to the incarceration and eventual firing squad awaiting Hegseth and subordinates for war crimes.
Holy fantasy batman.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law
I have to agree, it’s nice to want things, but…
That’d be great
Do you write fan fiction?
I wouldn’t go quietly if I was him. I don’t know why there isn’t a bigger commotion happening within the military when respectable generals are let go like that.
Are they just afraid to stand-up because they will lose their retirement package or something?
You don’t get to those high ranking positions without having an abnormal amount of personal ambition. So these decisions are nothing new, they just do what is best for themselves and carry on.
An infantry officer who was only part of the National Guard, at that.
and was put in a pr desk job because he was considered an insider threat based on his general incompetence
I don’t like the taste of boot polish quite enough to think there’s anyone respectable in the military, but he’s marginally less sleazy than Hegseth.
This is not some squishy left-wing guy. He’s been in a command position, no doubt participating in numerous bombing campaigns and drone strikes throughout his career.
Chopper pilot, and when the guy in charge of an entire carrier strike group capable of leveling a city tells you to cool it with the bombs, he’s saying so from experience that the only way things go is escalation from here.
More importantly, drug interdiction is not the Navy’s job and the Coasties have been arresting narcos, alive, for decades. This is straight up murder.
Especially when you fire again. Firing on a shipwreck is literally a war crime. Obviously illegal…
Or he knew Hegseth would throw him under the bus for the obvious violation of international law and he just wanted to save his own skin.
Probably also had inside knowledge of the long term plan to land troops on Venezuelian soil, and didn’t want his name part of that history chapter.
Extrajudicial murder to boot!
do you want the Venezolan oil? say the truth 😆
It’s not fair! Vladimir gets to take whatever he wants and I don’t! And I’m a way better boy! I want Venezuela! Now!
Murderous bullies need to be met with virtuous Luigi Mangiones.
Something something…illegal orders…
man, this entire topic of Venezuela is the more intrusive thing that I had seen in the continent… it sounds like Rafael Videla returning from his tomb…
The most corrupt administration in United State history… it’s just godawful.
The orange felon/rapist/liar wants subordinate stooges that he can shit on, not patriots who serve their country and uphold the constitution.
Good for that admiral. If there are any repercussions (however unlikely) a bullet was dodged.
