Source: ZeroHedge.com
A Monday NY Times report revealed of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recent phone call with Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, the following: “In an unusual disclosure, it said Mr. Austin had ordered a submarine to the Middle East.” This line alone begs the question, where is the elected civilian authority of the executive branch, the Commander-in-Chief, right now? And where is Congressional authority and oversight to wage war and put troops in harm’s way? NY Times described further that in the call Austin “reiterated the United States’ commitment to take every possible step to defend Israel.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has some similar questions which every American should be asking right now at this dangerous moment the United States is deeply involved in no less than two major wars simultaneously (by heavily funding and arming one side of each)…
Major US military assets are being deployed to the Middle East as a regional war becomes increasingly possible.
The NYT says all this was “ordered” by Defense Sec. Austin “to take every possible step to defend Israel.”
Is the President involved? Anyone know if Kamala agrees? pic.twitter.com/JsOlENMfL4
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 12, 2024
Or to put it another way: who is currently in charge over at the White House? Have we now reached such a post-Constitutional arrangement that that the major decisions of war and peace are being made by a military-intelligence complex beholden to no one? (…akin to what’s more commonly the case in Third World Banana Republics)….