{"id":1483521,"date":"2024-08-14T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1483521"},"modified":"2024-08-14T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:15:00","slug":"who-is-running-america-nyt-discloses-lloyd-austin-ordered-major-deployment-to-conflict-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/who-is-running-america-nyt-discloses-lloyd-austin-ordered-major-deployment-to-conflict-zone\/1483521\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Running America? NYT Discloses Lloyd Austin &#8216;Ordered&#8217; Major Deployment To Conflict Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Who Is Running America? NYT Discloses Lloyd Austin &#8216;Ordered&#8217; Major Deployment To Conflict Zone<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>A Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/12\/world\/middleeast\/us-submarine-israel.html\">NY Times<\/a> report revealed of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin&#8217;s recent phone call with Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, the following: <em>&#8220;<strong>In an unusual disclosure, it said<\/strong> <strong>Mr. Austin had ordered a submarine to the Middle East<\/strong>.&#8221; <\/em>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&#8217;s way? NY Times described further that in\u00a0the call Austin &#8220;reiterated the United States\u2019 commitment to take <strong>every possible step to defend Israel<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald has some similar questions which every American should be asking right now at this dangerous moment the United States is deeply <strong>involved in no less than two major wars simultaneously<\/strong> (by heavily funding and arming one side of each)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Major US military assets are being deployed to the Middle East as a regional war becomes increasingly possible.<\/p>\n<p>The NYT says all this was &#8220;ordered&#8221; by Defense Sec. Austin &#8220;to take every possible step to defend Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is the President involved? Anyone know if Kamala agrees?\ud83e\udd65 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JsOlENMfL4\">pic.twitter.com\/JsOlENMfL4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1822985330431078612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or to put it another way: who is currently in charge over at the White House? Have we now reached such a\u00a0<em>post-Constitutional\u00a0<\/em>arrangement that that the major decisions of war and peace are being made by <strong>a military-intelligence complex beholden to no one?<\/strong> (&#8230;akin to what&#8217;s more commonly the case in Third World Banana Republics).<\/p>\n<p>Comedian and Libertarian commentator Dave Smith just went on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1823404757505163322?t=514\">Tucker Carlson&#8217;s show<\/a> and voiced a similar theme. Here is what he said according to the transcript:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>It\u2019s the greatest scandal in American history\u2026 we don\u2019t have a president<\/strong>. The President of the United States, everyone has essentially admitted,<strong> is too senile to run for president<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Yet he\u2019s going to be president until January? <\/p>\n<p><strong>We are in a proxy war with the biggest nuclear power in the history of the world<\/strong>, and we have another proxy war-ish type thing devolving into a wider regional war in Israel, <strong>and we don\u2019t have a president<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not long following this interview, President Biden briefly emerged and fielded a few impromptu questions from the press, and let&#8217;s just say it did not instill confidence:<\/p>\n<p>REPORTER: &#8220;What do you have to say about what&#8217;s happening in Russia and Ukraine?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: &#8220;I have spoken with my staff on a regular basis, probably every 4 or 5 hours for the last 6 or 8 days, and it&#8217;s creating a real dilemma for Putin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>wut? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVhRWBfIl5\">pic.twitter.com\/ZVhRWBfIl5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1823447975542087861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Likely, the assumption of a huge portion of the American public is that Vice President Kamala Harris is basically running things in coordination with a bunch of twenty- and thirty-something unelected White House staffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But again, if the NY Times is accurate on Lloyd Austin being the one now &#8216;ordering&#8217; major military deployments (and who knows with what oversight), America might more currently resemble some military-ruled central Asian or African nation at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Babylon Bee once again nails it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/whstafferbabylongbee.jpg?itok=j6FYGmgc\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The newTucker Carlson interview of Dave Smith can be viewed in its entirety below.<\/p>\n<p>An attempted assassination, followed by a coup. It makes you wonder what\u2019s next. Dave Smith has some ideas.<\/p>\n<p>(1:03) Dave Smith\u2019s 2024 Predictions<br \/>\n(8:34) Who Is the President Right Now?<br \/>\n(12:39) The Greatest Scandal in American History<br \/>\n(19:34) The Deep State Coming Out of the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ux2T2F29fL\">pic.twitter.com\/Ux2T2F29fL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1823404757505163322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2024<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 08\/14\/2024 &#8211; 04:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/nyt-discloses-lloyd-austin-ordered-major-military-deployment-conflict-zone\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/nyt-discloses-lloyd-austin-ordered-major-military-deployment-conflict-zone<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Is Running America? NYT Discloses Lloyd Austin &#8216;Ordered&#8217; Major Deployment To Conflict Zone A Monday NY Times report revealed of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1483522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}