The mystery looms in the White House. This Tuesday, September 30, President Donald Trump will attend a meeting that brings together hundreds of American generals and admirals around the world.
Convent very unusually in a military base near Washington, no official has explained the objective of this meeting, which intervenes in a context of military deployment in US cities and purge of senior officers.
Organized by the initiative of the Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth, who will pronounce a speech there, this collection of high secret appeals to the US President in any case. “I love it. I mean, I think it’s great,” Donald Trump told his minister on Thursday.
“That sympathize with the generals and admirals around the world,” he added.
Donald Trump will also go to the military base of Quantico (Virginia, East), and should be expressed there, according to his official program.
An advertisement of the Pentagon?
The American vice president, JD Vance, wanted to minimize the importance of this meeting, telling journalists that “it was not unusual” and that it was “strange” that the press makes such a story.
Sean Parnell, the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, simply said in a statement that Pete Hegesh “will make a speech before his senior military officials,” without further details.
The exceptional nature of this meeting, and the lack of official reason, aroused many hypotheses in terms of their objective and the possibility of an important announcement about the Pentagon, renamed “Ministry of War” by Donald Trump.
Particular international context
The Ministry of Defense, generally quite preserved from political interventions directly, was particularly marked by the arrival of Donald Trump in January to the White House. The deployment of soldiers in the streets of several American cities, something very rare in the United States, was strongly criticized by democratic opposition.
This surprise meeting comes in a particular international context where the United States performs frontline actions. In early September, mortal attacks aimed at boats that, according to Washington, transported drugs, were carried out in the Caribbean.
This extrajudicial intervention launched by Donald Trump without the agreement of the Venezuelan government, also accentuated the tensions between Caracas and Washington, and was indicated abroad.
Last June, Donald Trump also ordered strikes against Iranian nuclear sites and Yemeni rebels, Yemeni rebels with Tehran’s support.
Annoying in the Trump administration
In May, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth ordered significant reductions in the number of higher officers of the US army, including a reduction in at least 20% of the number of four generals and marants of the star. The Pentagon has also announced that it wanted to reduce its civil workforce by at least 5%.
Several US army officials have also been pushed into the departure from the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January. The US president dismissed markedly in February, without giving an explanation, the chief of Cabinet Charles “CQ” Brown.
The head of the American Navy, the US coast guards, the head of the Air Force and several high -ranking military lawyers were also returned.
Source: BFM TV
