By Karen Kwiatkowski<\/p>\n
Just before the US-Israeli war on Iran went kinetic, I shared my thoughts on literal \u201cpoop\u201d deck<\/a> of the USS Gerald Ford. \u201cT-shirts and mop heads are finding their way into the pipes, and the proper explanation is sailors are attempting to declog these post-modern shit-suckers, but a bit of old fashioned rage and frustration may also play a part.<\/a><\/p>\n I was coy, but Colonel McGregor has not been<\/a>.\u00a0 He assessed at the time it was sabotage \u201cout of extreme dissatisfaction.\u201d\u00a0 After 240 days at sea, the USS Ford was bound for Norfolk from the Caribbean for overdue repairs and crew changes.\u00a0 Most of the previous several months had been plagued with non-functioning and flooded toilets, and bad leadership.\u00a0 But Donald Trump decided he needed to send this battle group immediately to the Middle East, as part of a \u201cwar\u201d buildup.\u00a0 Alfred Lord Tennyson spoke for these men and women: \u201cTheirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Why?\u00a0 In Tennyson\u2019s poem, \u201cSomeone had blundered\u201d and the 1854 Battle of Balaclava remains instructive, in more ways than one.\u00a0 Our very model of a modern Major-Generalissimo<\/a> read the headline, missed the lesson, and said \u201cHold my beer!\u201d<\/p>\n The explosive February 28th<\/sup> attacks on political, religious and military targets on Tehran were meant to decapitate the regime, to induce Iran\u2019s obedience to the US and Israel. While that objective was the first to be abandoned, removing previously obliterated nuclear material and playing ballistic missile whack-a-mole seem to remain.\u00a0 The first week of the war manufactured the \u201cnew\u201d objective of restoring US allied traffic and trade through the Strait of Hormuz and within US allied GCC countries.\u00a0 Trump, as talented as he may be, is having trouble keeping it all straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n As Marco Rubio blurted early on, it is a war for Israel, with US military commitment not requested, but demanded by Netanyahu.\u00a0 This is Israel\u2019s war, one that Donald Trump and his Zionist team wanted to fight and Congress, like the American public, was left out, lied to, and leaned on to make it happen.\u00a0 As Joe Kent, Trump\u2019s top Counter Terrorism Advisor<\/a>, stated in his recent resignation letter, the war on Iran is based on an Israeli lie, \u201cthe same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n What Joe Kent believes, and what he does, is important.\u00a0 A combat hardened veteran and MAGA team player, he represents the thinking of many former and current military members, and their civilian counterparts, who have been around long enough to understand that civilian control of the military does not mean the President can do \u201canything he wants.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n The United States, as a collapsing and anti-constitutional empire, faces many problems. Some are obscure, like the coming economic and monetary collapse.\u00a0 Some are strategic, like the decades of wastage and corruption within the defense industrial complex that have eroded the dominance of the American war machine, while encouraging politicians to seek war continuously for fun and profit.\u00a0 Some are moral, as seen with the war lust of both political parties, and the corruption of the elite classes, merged seamlessly in the adopted moniker of the latest war, \u201cEpstein Fury<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Some problems are political, like the current US parasitical infection by the Zionist horse-hair worm, which ingeniously hijacks the brain and movement of the host, culminating in the host\u2019s suicide by drowning, water being necessary for the next stage of the worm\u2019s life-cycle.<\/a><\/p>\n Unjust wars, deceitful monetary systems, elite arrogance and social disconnection are all part of late stage empire, fueling distrust among the people, and between the classes. The military is an institution where many of us have served, and many more take great pride in the service of ancestors children, family and friends.\u00a0 It has been a unifier of the working classes, and a link between our politicians and the people.\u00a0 Increasingly \u2013 in our frayed society \u2013 we see military men and women being elected to Congress, claiming in their campaigns the credibility and courage that we associate with service to country.\u00a0 A recent generation of military men and women, now Senators and Congressmen and among the top levels of the executive branch, have largely shown themselves to be easily compromised \u2013 no doubt MAGA classmates Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance, and many pro-war voices in the House and Senate traded away earned credibility on war and peace, choosing to cower rather than stand up, proving themselves less patriotic and less courageous than we were led to believe.<\/p>\n Now we have Joe Kent, and we have the journalist son of a CIA officer, Tucker Carlson, and until recently, we had Charlie Kirk, an influential American philosopher-activist who had once been rejected for a military education at West Point.\u00a0 Our real leaders stand out, and become dangerous to the regime, when they assert their moral code and compass, usually that familiar code that simply forbids that we lie, steal, covet, cheat and murder.<\/p>\n A less well understood rebellion is rising as well.\u00a0 After defending Israel near Haifa, the USS Gerald Ford traveled to the Red Sea, a place the Navy knows well, especially after October 7th<\/sup><\/a>.\u00a0 However, an unfortunate fire in the laundry room<\/a> changed the dynamic, and the Ford is rushing back through the Suez to Souda Bay, Crete, for repairs and an investigation on how those fires got started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The word \u201cmutiny\u201d is bouncing around, in part because the fire was enormous, and because of Navy hasn\u2019t explained it.\u00a0 When social media bans on that ship, and other military units in the region, become moot or unenforceable, we will get a more detailed picture of what went on.<\/p>\n The people serving in the US military resent the commission of war crimes in their name<\/a>, and being ordered to behave <\/a>like and fight beside the IDF, despite a lack of legal framework.<\/a> They resent being told by their own officers that this war is not defense of the US, but rather a pseudo religious adventure meant to prepare the world for the second coming of Jesu<\/a>s.\u00a0 When the civilian and military leaders cannot lead due to incompetence, fraud, and poor moral character, they do not lead.\u00a0 Instead they use organizational discipline and fear of group punishment to lie, steal, covet, cheat and murder on a grand and massive scale.<\/p>\n Disobedience, often indirect and silent, is a destroyer of armies. Yet it is often the only functional tool soldiers, sailors and airmen have when they are betrayed and lied to by false and feckless leaders, in the conduct of false and feckless wars, about which Major General Smedley Butler wrote so eloquently<\/a> a century ago.<\/p>\n