Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News bobblehead with documented alcohol problems, summoned the military’s top 800 generals, admirals and flag officers to Quantico, Virginia this week to degrade them with a message that could have been delivered via Zoom.

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Generals now know what they must do

The silver lining is that every high-ranking officer stationed everywhere in the world now knows, without a doubt, two crucial facts they may only have suspected before Quantico:

1. Hegseth plans to bend the rules to deliver maximum “lethality,” regardless of domestic and international law; and

2. Trump is mentally unfit to serve as Commander in Chief.

Knowledge of those two facts will inform their future decisions on how to respond to illegal orders. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, they are required to disobey illegal orders, including those that violate US law as well as the Constitution. Having heard Hegseth’s criminal intent, and having experienced Trump’s insanity in person, the officers’ resolve to disobey any and all illegal orders heading their way will only strengthen.