The "Generals' summoning" - a loyalty oath? - a purge? - Who knew KRASNOV can't resist performing for a rally?

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/us-military-leaders-meeting-pete-hegseth

.... “Secretary Hegseth has fired 12 senior ranking general officers, so he could be firing more,” Hertling added. “Or is it performative theatre?”

In a post on social media on Friday, Lt Gen Ben Hodges of the army compared Tuesday’s gathering to a 1935 “surprise assembly in Berlin” where German generals were “required to swear a personal oath to the Führer”, Adolf Hitler, in the lead-up to the Holocaust and the second world war.

Hegseth, a former army national guard officer and ex-Fox News host, responded to Hodges by writing: “Cool story, General.”


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Ba%27ath_Party_Purge

The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث ), also called the Comrades Massacre[1][2] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق ), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein[3] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.[4][1] ....


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-will-speak-at-a-hastily-called-meeting-of-top-military-leaders-ap-source-says/ar-AA1NsDCn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=31eea41b33d64f55ce6a4ceb12aaf4fb&ei=147

.... Trump's participation in the meeting raises the likelihood of a politicized event in front of a nonpartisan audience of military leaders. For example, he delivered campaign-style remarks to uniformed personnel at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in June, attacking his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.

The Republican president is also expanding his use of the military in American cities, arguing that it’s necessary to fight crime in places where Democratic leaders are failing to ensure public safety. ....

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