Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin vanished , reportedly being treated
for prostate cancer , while the whole middle-east
is exploding into a regional war over the Israeli -Hamas
war . Thanks to President Joe Biden's failure to
deescalate , call for a cease fire .
I'm heard bits of pieces about the story. Though many at the White House are reportedly befuddled by Austin’s poor judgement regarding the matter. This isnt satire? I thought most people assumed Joe Biden wasnt really running the show. I mean, you can only get lost on an open stage so many times before you realize this can't be the same man who has the nuclear football 
. Apparently he was at Walter Reed Hospital and no one was told about it and now people are mad? (1)>>WELL I AM GOING TO THROW THE CONSPIRACY WRENCH at this one, there is possibly more going on here ."Lloyd Austin's Disappearance Begs The Question"; Is his cancer diagnosis a result of the "vaccine mandate" that he still wants to impose on the military? Oncologists have warned about the turbo cancer that has been exploding since it rolled out. IS HE EVEN STILL ALIVE ???? The real issue is that January 4th was the 1st time many top government officials including President Biden, and the deputy secretary of defense was ever notified that Lloyd Austin was ever even in the hospital...let alone twice or compromised due to being in the intensive care unit. Now here is the CRAZINESS .“From a national security perspective, the most alarming aspect of this is it undermines confidence both in the public, the press, but more importantly, perhaps within the national security system itself, that vital information is getting shared,” said BRETT BRUEN, the president of the Global Situation Room and a former NSC official. With that said , Who the heck is calling the shots right now while the entire middle -east is going to explode !? If you're asking "why is it such a big deal", beyond what's explained, he's extremely high up in the chain of command. First, he is 7th from being president. And while there are a lot of measures in place to make sure the VP and President are rarely near each other without a massive amount of protection around them, it doesn't mean something awful couldn't happen. The idea is to keep those two separated most of the time for that reason. But sometimes important dinners or meetings require them to be in the same room. Having the 7th person from president just missing is really bad.Furthermore, he's in charge of our defense. If something went horribly wrong with Ukraine, or God forbid we came under attack, we need him available in a moments notice. And if he isn't available we need to know so his successor is immediately contacted.Finally, it's a huge red flag to our security because if he went missing for a few days and the White House itself doesn't know about it, that's a few days to a week that seems terrorist or antagonistic state could be torturing him for incredibly valuable information. If we know he's say, been kidnapped within an hour of it happening we can be trying to rescue him before they get a chance to even get him tied up to a chair. Now instead they've already got every code he has before we even know where to begin.What is clear is that senior leaders at the Pentagon and White House — including President Biden, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks — didn’t know about Austin’s hospitalization until days later. Multiple reports indicate that they weren’t informed about Austin’s condition and hospitalization until Thursday, January 4.
. Apparently he was at Walter Reed Hospital and no one was told about it and now people are mad? (1)>>WELL I AM GOING TO THROW THE CONSPIRACY WRENCH at this one, there is possibly more going on here ."Lloyd Austin's Disappearance Begs The Question"; Is his cancer diagnosis a result of the "vaccine mandate" that he still wants to impose on the military? Oncologists have warned about the turbo cancer that has been exploding since it rolled out. IS HE EVEN STILL ALIVE ???? The real issue is that January 4th was the 1st time many top government officials including President Biden, and the deputy secretary of defense was ever notified that Lloyd Austin was ever even in the hospital...let alone twice or compromised due to being in the intensive care unit. Now here is the CRAZINESS .“From a national security perspective, the most alarming aspect of this is it undermines confidence both in the public, the press, but more importantly, perhaps within the national security system itself, that vital information is getting shared,” said BRETT BRUEN, the president of the Global Situation Room and a former NSC official. With that said , Who the heck is calling the shots right now while the entire middle -east is going to explode !? If you're asking "why is it such a big deal", beyond what's explained, he's extremely high up in the chain of command. First, he is 7th from being president. And while there are a lot of measures in place to make sure the VP and President are rarely near each other without a massive amount of protection around them, it doesn't mean something awful couldn't happen. The idea is to keep those two separated most of the time for that reason. But sometimes important dinners or meetings require them to be in the same room. Having the 7th person from president just missing is really bad.Furthermore, he's in charge of our defense. If something went horribly wrong with Ukraine, or God forbid we came under attack, we need him available in a moments notice. And if he isn't available we need to know so his successor is immediately contacted.Finally, it's a huge red flag to our security because if he went missing for a few days and the White House itself doesn't know about it, that's a few days to a week that seems terrorist or antagonistic state could be torturing him for incredibly valuable information. If we know he's say, been kidnapped within an hour of it happening we can be trying to rescue him before they get a chance to even get him tied up to a chair. Now instead they've already got every code he has before we even know where to begin.What is clear is that senior leaders at the Pentagon and White House — including President Biden, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks — didn’t know about Austin’s hospitalization until days later. Multiple reports indicate that they weren’t informed about Austin’s condition and hospitalization until Thursday, January 4.Middle EAST ON FIRE ! The secretary of defense, in contrast, is a rather consequential position in the U.S. government. He is in charge of the largest and most important part of the executive branch and second in the chain of command only to the president of the United States. He is central to any number of scenarios crucial to U.S. national security, including the decision to launch a nuclear strike.If a U.S. destroyer gets hit in the Red Sea, you don’t want U.S. commanders and high U.S. officials wondering where the SecDef is.Call it "The Case of the Disappearing Defense Secretary." Just as a major war is about to break out in the Middle East - which will most certainly involve the United States - President Biden's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin...disappeared! And no one noticed! Who's running the show? Some ONE ORDERED AIR STRIKES AGAINST YEMEN & the HOUTHI'S , but Biden "claimed" he did ... but LOL he did not go to CONGRESS FIRST . So now we have another escalation of sorts . House Republican leadership set to "compromise" on big spending budget. Finally - war profits: US-funded troops from Israel are fighting US-funded troops from Lebanon. President Trump on Truth Social:Biden Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is running the Middle East operation (Israel, Yemen) "from his laptop in a hospital room." Why no 'war' on the southern border?Almost three months on, Israel’s massive military retaliation is reverberating around the region, with explosions in Lebanon and rebels from Yemen attacking shipping in the Red Sea. Meanwhile, Western countries are pumping military aid into Israel while deploying fleets to protect commercial shipping — risking confrontation with the Iranian navy.That's in line with a grim prediction made last year by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, who said that Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza meant an “expansion of the scope of the war has become inevitable,” and that further escalation across the Middle East should be expected. David Schenker, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think-tank, cautioned that while neither Iran and its allied groups nor the U.S. appeared to want a direct confrontation, the risks were growing. The possibility of a major strike that draws America into a conflict is "a very realistic concern," he said.Didn't Blinken notice Secretary Austin was missing on the 50 trips he made to the Arab nations during the war in the middle east between Israel the the Palestinian people who fight for Hamas? That's how disingenuous he is. Blinken is a con man working for China and Iran through Joe Biden and Obama's shadow government term in this administration. Blinken worked for China before he ever started working for Joe Biden .Still, the Houthis haven't appeared to be deterred. On Thursday morning, the militant group for the first time launched a one-way attack unmanned surface vessel in the Red Sea, yes now they are vowing REVENGE after the air strikes .Each of these theatres of conflict has the potential to ignite a much-feared Middle East conflagration, and the past few days have demonstrated just how easily escalation, intended or not, could bring Israel into open confrontation with Iran, and suck in the US too.
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>WELL I AM GOING TO THROW THE CONSPIRACY WRENCH. To note, the US Secretary of Defense is required to verify any nuclear attack order from the US President, making the POTUS's lack of awareness around the SECDEF's absence destabilizing from a nuclear strategy perspective. The Pentagon did not inform the White House National Security Council or top adviser Jake Sullivan of Austin’s hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, until Thursday, according to two administration officials. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.If DOD is going to hide something from Sullivan for a few days, could they at least make it something cool? Like, "sorry we forgot to tell you but we fired the commander of USFK for deliberately inflating the number of ATACMS he needs, turns out that was bullshit". Austin should be fired. First, he went under the knife without telling anybody. Second, he didn’t inform anyone he was in the Walter Reed ICU. Third, as a Cabinet member , he has no expectation of privacy but an obligation to notify POTUS and Congress as a Cabinet member. Fourth, a positive handoff was required because he is part of the National Command Authority. Fifth, his deputy should have immediately returned from vacation because of his incapacity. As #2, you can’t call it in. This a continuity of government failure of which he is directly responsible for. Wouldn't there be a chain of succession even for verification ? It's not like an enemy can completely forestall a nuclear strike just by taking out the Sec defense, leaving the President unable to order a strike.Besides, it's not particularly high risk of nuclear strike right now. Bill Clinton famously lost his card with his code for months.I think it also is a pointer to having sufficiently able office/underlings that you can take some sick time off and not have everyone miss you ..Though someone probably should have set his Out of Office email message.
