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Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar: Stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry and bound for Ukraine.
In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the U.S. Transportation Command, known as TRANSCOM, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?
Top national security officials — in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department — couldn’t provide answers. Within one week, flights were back in the air.
The verbal order originated from the office of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, according to TRANSCOM records reviewed by Reuters.
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I have to apologize to Keifer Sutherland and the creators of 24.
When they did an season where the President of the US was actively working against the country I threw my hands up and declared the show had jumped the shark.
On a similar subject I’ll say the creators of The Boys need to chill the fuck out. I have zero desire to watch a show only slightly more fucked up than reality.
That was the plan. The spectacle in the WH about suits was to convince Americans that Ukraine shouldn’t be helped. Trump was convinced that blocking help to Ukraine will force them to surrender, and the war will be over.
When Ukraine and Poland contacted WH asking what was going on, WH just acted like they don’t know what’s happening.
It was one of those things where your boss’s boss asks you to do something. No biggie
The DUI hire order the flights stopped when he found out they weren’t full of whiskey
