"Pelosi said in a statement to colleagues that she spoke with Gen. Mark Milley 'to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.'
She said, the situation of 'this unhinged President could not be more dangerous.'” (our emphasis)
Trump is still nursing a deep narcissistic wound over his election loss. His indirect, sedated acknowledgement of defeat yesterday, where he also denounced his own mob that attacked the Capitol that caused five deaths, was a legal ploy made only as a defense against potential charges.
As pressure grows from all corners for Trump to resign, be removed through the 25th Amendment, or impeachment, in addition to his legal woes, it's a matter of national security to ensure that in the waning days of his regime, Trump not be permitted to initiate war as a parting "finger" to America for rejecting him.
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Mens rea in the pot, two days cold, is no defense at all.
The bad news is that there is nothing Milley can do. The good news is that there is probably nothing he will do. But everything -- absolutely everything -- is performance, signalling, metonymy, allegory. All we can do is bring to bear the methods of applied literary criticism. The usefulness of a crystal ball has a lot to do with what you put behind it.
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