Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
What’s going on? How many wars are being waged under the American flag that we don’t know about?
Look at the timeline for the Secretary of Defense since his disappearance from the world’s stage and pay particular note to January 4th.
This is insane.
It has to stop.
Defense Secretary Austin Finally Leaves Hospital After 2 Weeks, Refuses To Resign
Amid a backdrop of scandal and controversy while still rebuffing calls to resign, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been released from the hospital Monday, following a full two week stint there, with the first four days of that in ICU wherein the White House was kept in the dark.
Austin had been admitted to Walter Reed hospital on January 1st for complications following prostate cancer surgery. A new Pentagon statement says he is still going to work remotely from home “for a period of time” before returning to his office. The statement sought to assure that he has “full access” to secure communications capabilities.
“Secretary Austin’s prostate cancer was treated early and effectively, and his prognosis is excellent,” Austin’s doctors have assessed.
It was on Jan. 5th that the Pentagon first disclosed to the public that he had been hospitalized. For the initial part of that week prior, even the White House didn’t know, and his deputy Kathleen Hicks was also unaware of the full status of his condition while on vacation in Puerto Rico.
The Pentagon has since claimed that she was running things from her hotel room. But this is dubious given she appears not to have been fully aware that she was effectively in charge. She merely was tasked with certain duties instead.
The National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby has also asserted that Austin’s overseeing the country’s national security from the hospital while recovering “was no different than it would be on any other given day, except that he was briefing the president on options and engaged in the discussions from the hospital.”
But bipartisan Congressional leaders have demanded answers, which have not been forthcoming. A letter from Senate armed services committee chair, Jack Reed (D) and Senator Roger Wicker (R) have demanded an explanation for the serious lapse and breach in protocol:
“We are concerned that critical notification procedures were not followed while you were receiving medical care the past several weeks,” they wrote, adding that their committee “has serious questions about this incident, and members need a full accounting to ensure it never happens again”.
Essentially there was no one at the helm of the Department of Defense while the nation is embroiled in several hotspots from Ukraine to the Red Sea and Yemen.
To review, CBS previously compiled a timeline of major events related to Austin’s absence from his post as Pentagon chief:
- Early December 2023: Medical providers identify prostate cancer, which requires treatment. (Statement from officials at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center officials, Jan. 9)
- Dec. 22: Austin undergoes an elective medical procedure while on leave. (Ryder discloses procedure on Jan. 5; Ryder discloses the date of the procedure on Jan. 7)
- Dec. 23: Austin is discharged and goes home. (Ryder briefing, Jan. 8)
- Jan. 1, 2024: President Biden holds a call on the situation in the Middle East with Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. (National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby briefing, Jan. 8).
- Jan. 1: Austin experiences “severe abdominal, leg, and hip pain” and is transported to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Initial evaluation reveals a urinary tract infection. (Walter Reed Statement, Jan. 9).
- Jan. 2: Austin is transferred to the intensive care unit for close monitoring and a higher level of care. (Walter Reed Statement, Jan. 9)
- Jan. 2: Some operational responsibilities are transferred to Hicks. (Ryder briefing, Jan. 8)
- Jan. 2: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown is notified Austin has been hospitalized. (Ryder briefing, Jan. 8)
- Jan. 2: Pentagon press secretary, Austin’s chief of staff and Austin’s senior military adviser learn Austin is in the hospital. (Ryder briefing, Jan. 8.)
- Jan. 4: The U.S. conducts a strike in Baghdad at 12 p.m. local time, according to a defense official. Ryder said on Jan. 8 that Mr. Biden and Austin had approved the strike before Austin was hospitalized.
- Jan. 4: Defense Department chief of staff notifies deputy secretary of defense and the White House that Austin is in the hospital. President Biden learns Austin has been hospitalized. (Ryder briefing, Jan. 8; Kirby briefing, Jan. 9)
- Jan. 5: Senate Armed Services Committee is informed of Austin’s hospitalization. (A Senate Armed Services Committee aide told CBS News).
- Jan. 5: Pentagon releases first public statement that says Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1.
- Jan. 5: Austin resumes full duties from Walter Reed in the evening. (Ryder statement, Jan. 7)
- Jan. 6: Austin releases a statement taking responsibility for delayed disclosure.
- Jan. 6: Mr. Biden and Austin speak; the president says he has full confidence in Austin. (U.S. official, Jan. 8).
- Jan. 8: Austin is no longer in ICU and is recovering in a private area of Walter Reed. (Ryder briefing, Jan. 8)
- Jan. 9: Pentagon releases statement from Walter Reed Military Medical Center disclosing that the procedure Austin had undergone was a prostatectomy “to treat and cure prostate cancer.”
- Jan. 9: President Biden is informed of Austin’s diagnosis. (Kirby briefing, Jan. 9)
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C’mon, HSF. This ain’t hard to figure out. You know how those evil fucks like eye poking humiliation, right?
This is that…at scale.
Frankly, I’m surprised it hadn’t occurred to you that they would spend Billions just to piss you off. After all, it’s YOUR money they’re using to do it. It costs them nothing, because it’s OUR blood and treasure they’re spending.
We are fools to allow it to continue as much as another day. Tells you where we stand on the topic of education…don’t it?
Probably VERY DIFFICULT to detect.
Soooo MANY YEARS with one Puppet Master or another, ELBOW DEEP?
Why anyone with 2 working brain cells would join our faggot military is totally beyond my comprehension.
I don’t understand why people haven’t realized that a dishonorable discharge from a dishonorable organization is a double negative.
Careful now, the triple negative is now frequently being used by some of the more erudite propagandists.
After we’re done bringing democracy to a country, we bomb them periodically just to remind them how lucky they are. Germany and Japan may be due for a reminder.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/first-active-duty-air-force-officer-compete-miss-america-dreams-being-top-gun-fighter
Later in Jersey City, final contestants are asked how they would use their title of Miss America to help the world.
Miss California “Well, I would wear the crown proudly the next time I shaved my mustachio”.
Miss North Carolina “Well I would promote the nutritious value of the sweet potato, and hope every child in the world would have access to at least one cigarette a day”.
Miss Colorado, same question. “Well I would fly around the world dropping democracy bombs every chance I could, and strafe and napalm those mean MAGA people for suppressing, well, just about everybody.
You’re wrong on Miss NC. She’d say a yam, not sweet ‘tater. Especially if she’s from Tabor City.
I was just assuming that a female being a contestant in a Miss America contest would be somewhat educated and have all of her teeth so therefore not from Columbus County. I think Tabor City’s claim to fame is that they had fire ants before the rest of the State.
I travel frequently to N.C. It has good parts.It has bad parts. It has waaaay to damn many people from New Jersey. They too are locally classified as illegals.
Two weeks in the hospital and a retaliation occurred in Yemen when he was supposed to be on watch. I think this has exposed a diversity hire for a position that is not needed with this administration.
Everyone in the admin that is not a figurehead is a Jew.
You mis-capitalized “jew”.
Checked his bio on Wikipedia (not that one would always want to believe what they read there); Austin seems to have had an amazing number of relatively short term jobs when he was in the military. Reminds of virtually every clever AA hire where I worked (yeah, some were clever, many were not): every clever one managed to job hop within the company every 18-24 months. Couldn’t be because by then everyone around them found out they were worthless?
Follow the money.
I imagine they are trying to keep Russian and Chinese hands off Iraqi oil and gas. An article from 2019….
U.S. And Russia Battle It Out Over This Huge Iraqi Gas Field
Securing oil and gas contracts across all of Iraq will allow Russia to establish an unassailable political sway across the entire Shia crescent of power in the Middle East, stretching from Syria through Lebanon (by dint of Iran), Jordan, Iraq (also helped by Iran), Iran itself, and Yemen (via Iran). From this base, it can effectively challenge the U.S.’s vital oil, gas, and political ally in the region – Saudi Arabia. China, in the meantime, is operating to its own agenda in South Pars Phase 11 and its West Karoun holdings.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/US-And-Russia-Battle-It-Out-Over-This-Huge-Iraqi-Gas-Field.html
I don’t know what the hell is going on or who we are at war with. (Except that fedgov is at war with it’s own people) Supposedly ISIS is back and the Defense Dept goons say Iran supports ISIS but last night Iran bombed the Kurdish area of Iraq saying it was targeting an Israeli spy center and ISIL which is their term for ISIS.
I think we can get more info from foreign websites than anyplace that the US/CIA supported info dispensers puke out. Not that we don’t have to read between their lines, too.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/15/irans-revolutionary-guard-attack-anti-iranian-groups-in-iraqs-erbil
Turkey is also bombing the Kurds.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-launches-airstrikes-kurdish-militants-iraq-syria-after-106346857
As far as I recall, ISIS was formed by our own CIA/mossad-linked folks to foment strife between the sunnis and the shiites … strife which didn’t exist before we stuck our nose where it didn’t belong …
Not sure about the strife angle, but would not be one bit surprised that CIA is behind ISIS.
cia is and was behind isis, al-qaeda, isil, and all the rest, along with mossad.
Sunnis and Shiites had strife already.
But otherwise, the old fallback is to do a search for “ISIS apologizes”
Lloyd Austin is the paradigmatic affirmative action hire.
That’s just how things roll in the land of ZHou Bai Din: SNAFU and expect it to only get worse.
“Mars Attacks-“
Why are still at war? MIC needs your tax dollars!
I’m afraid it’s just getting (re)started….
Iran Launches Attack Near U.S. Consulate in Iraq, Takes Credit in Massive Escalation
In what is a massive escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, Iran reportedly launched an attack near the U.S. consulate in Northern Iraq on Monday.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/01/15/breaking-iran-bombs-us-consulate-in-iraq-takes-credit-for-the-attack-in-massive-escalation-n2168760
Iranian missiles destroy Mossad HQ in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps confirms it has targeted the espionage headquarters of the Zionist regime in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region with ballistic missiles as part of an operation against anti-Iran terror groups and networks in the region.
The IRGC in three separate announcements linked the overnight operations to terrorists and their backers involved in the recent terror attacks in the Iranian cities of Kerman and Rasak.
https://en.irna.ir/news/85355520/Iranian-missiles-destroy-Mossad-HQ-in-Iraqi-Kurdistan-IRGC
Hunter’s daddy will really, really get mad when they take out his favorite ice cream store.
If you needed it this is proof-positive that the office-holders are not the ones actually running the show.
There’s no strategic direction here, just an unaccountable runaway administrative apparatus being exploited by malevolent globalists
I think you have a better grasp on this than 99% of the population.
And it has been that way since around 1913.
Rumor has it that when healed up from its faggot surgery the pentagon will throw a huge coming out party for Austin.
Her new name will be Jemima Austin.
I see the resemblance.
I think you mean “Pearl Milling” Austin.
Aunt Pancake was a lot more attractive.
This just shows us that the Pentagram is on auto-pilot and has the authority to bomb whenever and whomever they please. Now, go back to getting ready for the next sportsball game and chilling the beer and leave nation building to us.
Same reason dogs lick their balls.
Of course, you know what dogs lick when they are without balls.
Austin is dead, killed in a missile strike while on a secret trip to Ukraine. It just took them time to get his body double doppelganger in place.
So. The Face Diaper & Face Shield were not effective?
No, not against a Russian hypersonic missile.
BINGO
‘WHY ARE WE STILL AT WAR WITH IRAQ?’
Because our overlords in israel haven’t given us the word to stand down yet …
After all, they’re the ones that told US all about those filthy, nasty WMDs in Iraq …
“Essentially there was no one at the helm of the Department of Defense while the nation is embroiled in several hotspots from Ukraine to the Red Sea and Yemen.”
whether austin is there or not, the statement is always true.
were any live clips of the fat, ignorant, murderous nigger shown being released from the hospital? how does anyone know that he was released from the morgue i mean hospital?
the translation for released is that his corpse was dug out from under the rubble in jukraine where he was bombed to death.
The Russians stuck a “dagger” in Lloyd’s black ass and I can only thank them for that.
Спасибо
What I most love is people protesting the Middle East war, while saying and doing exactly sweet fuck all about the 1 million that have died because the US went into Iraq.
The world is now so narrative driven they cannot see the forest, and get blinded by what is no more than a tiny sapling in the scheme of things.
The US should stay the fuck out of anything outside its borders, and should ruthlessly crush anyone or thing that breaches its borders. Simples.
The Biden/Harris Administration can’t allow Austin to resign.He provides “gravitas”.
Has anybody actually laid eyes on Austin? Do we know whether or not he is dead? Just sayin. Many of us have gone through prostate cancer surgery and it wasn’t really that big of a secret.