re: #439 Anymouse 🌹

Putin backing the Taliban makes sense in the context of opposing the USA, however. Couple that with Trump “suggesting” he fire the commander of our forces there, and Putin gets an additional benefit.

Undermining command authority by the President is bad for the whole US military. If you’re going to fire a flag officer for something, you just do it.

Speculating publicly whether you might only throws the whole chain-of-command from general to private into question, weakening morale.

He would have learned that as an infantry lieutenant in Viet Nam, if not for the bone spurs.