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BumRushDaShow

(157,336 posts) Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:28 AM Jul 15

Pentagon Pulls Top Officers from Colorado Security Conference, Claiming It Promotes 'Evil of Globalism'

Source: Yahoo! News/Military.com

Mon, July 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM EDT

The Pentagon has pulled a host of top military officials from attending a major security conference in Colorado that was set to start Tuesday, arguing that the event is anti-American and goes against the values of the Trump administration. "The Department of Defense has no interest in legitimizing an organization that has invited former officials who have been the architects of chaos abroad and failure at home," Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a statement.

The conference in question is the Aspen Security Forum -- an event put on annually by the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit organization -- and it is one of the most high-profile events for top officials in the national security space. Its attendees have historically included top military leaders, lawmakers and officials from both political parties. Over the years, numerous top military leaders -- including some that have gone on to have a role in Trump's political movement -- have appeared at the conference.

This year's final event at the conference is slated to feature a conversation between Condoleezza Rice, a top Bush-era official and co-chair of the group hosting the event; Robert Gates, a former secretary of defense for both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama; and Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser for President Joe Biden.

The program also advertised a host of top military officials who had been slated to speak, including Adm. Samuel Paparo, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Gen. Bryan Fenton, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command; and Lt. Gen. John Brennan, the deputy commander of U.S. Africa Command. Wilson, however, went on to say that "senior representatives of the Department of Defense will no longer be participating in an event that promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country, and hatred for the president of the United States."

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Pentagon Pulls Top Officers from Colorado Security Conference, Claiming It Promotes 'Evil of Globalism' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jul 15 OP

Weak roscoeroscoe Jul 15 #1

More childish and irrational every day. The Trump regime is such an embarrassment for this country. highplainsdem Jul 15 #2

We don't need no body but ICE for our national security. sinkingfeeling Jul 15 #3

About Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, one of this nation's finest, from the article progree Jul 15 #4

so they just make up words and NO ONE challanges them? samnsara Jul 15 #5

No doubt under Kegbreath's orders Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 15 #6

"event is anti-American...against the values of the Trump administration." Grins Jul 15 #7

roscoeroscoe

(1,751 posts)

1. Weak

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:14 AM

Jul 15

America alone. Just sad and broken.

Wonder how they'll feel about this at JSOPC - Joint Space Ops. You know, our allies. Or NATO.

highplainsdem

(57,575 posts)

2. More childish and irrational every day. The Trump regime is such an embarrassment for this country.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:44 AM

Jul 15

sinkingfeeling

(56,001 posts)

3. We don't need no body but ICE for our national security.

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:56 AM

Jul 15

progree

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4. About Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, one of this nation's finest, from the article

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:56 AM

Jul 15

Wilson, however, went on to say that "senior representatives of the Department of Defense will no longer be participating in an event that promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country, and hatred for the president of the United States."

The Anti-Defamation League notes that the word "globalist" is a term that is frequently used "as an antisemitic dog whistle" and can be wielded "as a codeword for Jews or as a pejorative term for people whose interests in international commerce or finance ostensibly make them disloyal to the country in which they live."

Wilson has a yearslong history of making social media posts on her personal social media account that trafficked in a variety of extremist rhetoric, ranging from antisemitic conspiracy theories to white nationalist talking points. While some comments were made as far back as 2021, others are far more recent.

In August, Wilson posted a decades-old antisemitic trope questioning the facts behind the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering a child more than a hundred years ago in Atlanta.

That post was still available at the time of this story's publication.

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