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America's top military officer has spoken at a Veteran's Day event in the midst of a chaotic week at the Pentagon and said, 'we do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual.' General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said 'each of us will protect and defend that document regardless of personal price'.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/america-s-top-military-officer-says-we-do-not-take-an-oath-to-a-king
 
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America's top military officer has spoken at a Veteran's Day event in the midst of a chaotic week at the Pentagon and said, 'we do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual.' General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said 'each of us will protect and defend that document regardless of personal price'.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/america-s-top-military-officer-says-we-do-not-take-an-oath-to-a-king
The same oath I took. I seem to recall that the oath also included direction for us to follow the LAWFUL orders of the President. No need to follow any unlawful orders as one General pointed out.
 
What do you think Trump will do about this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/russia-military-alaska-arctic-fishing.html

‘Are We Getting Invaded?’ U.S. Boats Faced Russian Aggression Near Alaska
Russia has escalated its provocative encounters in the North Pacific this year, harassing boats in U.S. fishing waters and sending bombers toward Alaska’s shores.

"Russians have refurbished and restored dozens of military posts in the Arctic region, including on Wrangel Island, some 300 miles from the coast of Alaska, and have laid plans for controlling emerging navigation routes that would bring traffic through the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia."


"Russian military leaders have touted the exercises in the Bering Sea as unlike any they had done before in the region. They said the goal of the effort was to prepare forces to secure economic development in the Arctic region, and U.S. officials have acknowledged that the Russians have a right to transit the waters.

Disputes over activities in exclusive economic zones around the world are not unusual, especially in the lucrative Arctic region, where several nations have contested the extent of their rights to dominate maritime economic activities.

Before a 1990 boundary agreement, the issue was especially contentious in the Bering Sea, which narrows to just 55 miles between the coasts of Alaska and Russia in the Bering Strait."

It's time we had a real President again I think.
 

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