It was an almost expected decision by the president still in office, Donald Trump. This time it hit the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Esper: You are fired.
Immediately before a trip to Europe, which was scheduled for next week, he has to vacate his post.
And it is also clear why President Trump pulled the ripcord. The Pentagon is rehearsing the revolt against the country’s political leadership, President-elect Trump. We remember that there is virtually a legacy of Donald Trump: bring our troops home. That includes not only withdrawing from Afghanistan before Christmas 2020 and abandoning a presence in Syria and Special forces from Africa. That was the reason for the 2016 election decision in favor of Donald Trump. Americans no longer wanted to see their sons and daughters from Obama’s and Biden’s wars brought home in zinc coffins. The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany is also part of the agenda that has opened the way to global war after 1999 and the NATO destruction of Yugoslavia, by Donald Trump.
Against this, the U.S. military is rebelling. One does not want to let the “license to wage war” be taken away. But neither does Donald Trump his legacy, as the sacking of Mr. Esper shows.
This high-handedness of the U.S. military to undermine presidential decisions in advance of judicial decisions on the election of a U.S. president and to leave troops where they currently are or will be in the future against the declared will of the political leadership has antecedents. In connection with German reunification, then-U.S. President George Bush had explicitly assured Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev that NATO would be changed. It was to be transformed into a consultative body including the still-existing Soviet Union. As documents that a German officer was later able to see show, this was precisely the signal for Paul Wolfowitz in his then function in the Pentagon to turn this promise from George Bush to Michael Gorbachev into the opposite. Who is actually in charge in Washington?
by Jeremy Abbott – American Correspondent – GN