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Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar: Stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry and bound for Ukraine.
In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the U.S. Transportation Command, known as TRANSCOM, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?
Top national security officials — in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department — couldn’t provide answers. Within one week, flights were back in the air.
The verbal order originated from the office of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, according to TRANSCOM records reviewed by Reuters.
Occasionally on my Reddit account I try to get people to see this point, but they’re enjoying their posturing as the “only people being moral” too much and refuse to listen.
People that virtue signal are THE WORST people. Murderers with no remorse are better because AT LEAST THEY ARE HONEST.
people who trip over their own morals and actively accelerate genocide ARE the worst.
but look none of this is meant to be a personal attack it’s more so meant to make people examine if their actions are actually leading to the results they claim to want.