• Weirdfish@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      The chain of command goes from the secretary of defense all the way down to the most junior enlisted personnel.

      You seem to assume I meant the joint chiefs or some small hand full of senior commanders.

      Generals don’t pull the trigger, and as someone else pointed out, the logistics involved with bombing a city includes hundreds of service members.

      Not sure where you get off calling me clueless as my initial response exactly answers the original question.

      If not for honorable service members respecting their oaths and the UCMJ, there is literally nothing stopping Trump from bombing Chicago or LA.

        • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          If your point is that this mechanism won’t work, then I’m assuming your point is that nothing can stop Trump.

          Doesn’t mean my answer was wrong or clueless, only that the means to stop him has failed.

          If you think something else is stopping him, I’d be very curious what that might be.

            • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
              5·
              1 year ago

              Well, let’s see.

              It won’t be his moral fiber.

              It won’t be China or Russia the only two military powers that have a chance to have any influence on CONUS affairs.

              Maybe his desperate desire for public approval as I suspect major ordinance dropped on a US population center isn’t going to poll well, but I’d hate to count on that.

              Me? Stop the president from doing literally anything? You vastly over estimate my powers.

                • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  The chances of me personally firebombing anything is functionally 0.

                  I certianly expect someone else to handle this for me, the men and women of the US military who aren’t going to a US city into fucking Dresden.

                  My suggestion was to rely on the mechanism which has handled this type of issue without fail since day one.

                  Yours is to encite random acts of partisan violence.

                  I’m going stick with my plan thanks.