Why It Matters: Pentagon's Friday Night Massacre; and Trump Pushes Putin's War

From Bad to Worse

This video post, for paid subscribers, evaluates the disastrous Pentagon firings, politicization of the military, filling the ranks with Trump loyalists, and Trump’s Russia policy delaying the end of the Russia-Ukraine war and nurturing Putin’s wars. Further below, is a transcript for all subscribers. You pick your preferred mode tuning in!

Hey, welcome back to Why It Matters.

Seem to be doing a number of these kind of emergency video posts.

But I think this one is warranted.

It's been a very chaotic week.

Closing out the first month of Trump back in office.

A lot of things were expected.

But again, the sum total... of these changes is still shocking.

It doesn't fail to shock, even though there was an expectation of mass firings.

I'm going to start with what went on with the Pentagon over the past 24 hours, and then maybe touch a little bit on Ukraine and peac…