Trump’s Death Wish for “Disloyal” Military General Is Textbook Totalitarianism

In Stalin’s Soviet Union, years into the Great Terror, the Soviet secret police began rounding up military leaders. In 1937, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky was arrested on manufactured charges of spying for the Nazis. After being tortured into confessing his “crimes,” he was summarily shot. Over the next two years, in the run-up to World War II, an estimated 35,000-plus Soviet military officers were shot, or sent to the Gulag, or simply dismissed from service. It was the logical endpoint of Stalin’s increasingly paranoid and ruthless leadership, a way of stamping out potential opposition from “enemies of the people” within the one institution in the country that might have been capable of standing up to Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian rule.

Mark Milley Says U.S. Military Won't Obey A 'Wannabe Dictator'

After stepping down as America’s highest-ranking military officer on Friday, retiring Gen. Mark Milley issued a reminder about the role of the armed forces ― one that seemed particularly directed at former President Donald Trump.

“We don’t take an oath to a country, we don’t take an oath to a tribe, we don’t take an oath to a religion, we don’t take an oath to a king or a queen, or to a tyrant or a dictator, and we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at his farewell ceremony. “We don’t take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we’re willing to die to protect it.” 

Retired 4-Star General Delivers Ominous Warning Over Trump's ‘Lawless Cult’

Retired four-star U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey warned Wednesday that when it comes to Donald Trump-supporting MAGA Republicans, “what we are seeing is a parallel to the 1930s in Nazi Germany.”

“This is worth being extremely concerned about,” McCaffrey told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes during a discussion centered on Trump’s dangerous social media post floating the idea of executing outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) singlehanded blocking of military promotions in the Senate in protest of Pentagon abortion policies.

Mark Milley Taking ‘Safety Precautions’ After Trump Suggested He Deserves Execution

Gen. Mark Milley, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that he is taking appropriate measures to ensure his safety and that of his family after former President Donald Trump attacked the top military leader by suggesting he is a traitor who deserves to be executed.

Trump went after the Army general Friday in a Truth Social post, accusing Milley of being a “Woke train wreck” who went behind his back to communicate with China in the final months of the former president’s administration. Milley, who was nominated to the position by Trump, is set to leave his post at the end of this month.

‘Turning point’: Milley steps down as chair at a crucial moment for Ukraine

Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley is handing the reins over to his replacement on Friday. It couldn’t come at a more precarious time, as the West show signs of running out of weapons — and out of patience — with Ukraine.

As the top military adviser to the president, Milley has weighed in on every major decision in the Ukraine conflict, from what weapons to send Kyiv to how to best train its forces. He has a longstanding relationship with Ukrainian Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as other chiefs of defense around the world. He and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a former four-star general, have led the charge in rallying the West to support Ukraine with modern arms and equipment.

Trump’s 'Repugnant' Demand For Wounded Veterans Revealed In Gen. Mark Milley Profile

Donald Trump reportedly made a callous comment about wounded veterans during Gen. Mark Milley’s 2019 welcome ceremony as the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, per a lengthy article by The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published Thursday.

Trump reportedly demanded to know why a wounded veteran had been invited to perform “God Bless America” at the event, wrote Goldberg, who spent time with Milley for the piece.