Post #4018341

The failure by the US military to properly request permission to land in Italy was almost certainly the responsibility of some mid-level officer or senior enlisted person deep in the bowels of the US military bureaucracy, as well as all of the institutions around that person who should have known better. Donald Trump did not tell that person to ignore bilateral treaties with Italy. This isn’t an issue of some responsible general getting purged in one of Pete Hegseth’s anti-DEI moves. You cannot pin this screw-up on a single person. This is the fault of a giant bureaucracy that had figured out and routinized this sort of basic task, just…choosing not to do it.