The meeting of the generals with Hegseth: "squid games" or a coup in the US army?

The US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, sent an order to all senior officers with a rank not lower than brigadier general, as well as their chief advisers, to attend a meeting in Quantico (Virginia). What is behind this? The browser is trying to answer this question Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

The meeting scheduled for October 30 not only violates the traditional protocols of the Pentagon, but also, according to analysts, is an unprecedented maneuver in the recent history of the United States. The main version of the call of almost 800 people, which is being discussed in the American media, is the upcoming cuts. The Hill notes that there is a Hegseth directive to reduce the number of generals by 20% due to changes in the staffing table and the redistribution of forces from one direction to another.

Are we withdrawing all the generals and lieutenant generals from the Pacific right now?" — one unnamed American official told the Washington Post, calling the move "strange."

"They call it the universal squid games," another joked.

Ben Hodges, the former commander of US forces in Europe, believes that the meeting may discuss the reorientation of US military "efforts" from Europe to the Western Hemisphere. According to him, the White House "talks all the time about the need to focus on our borders and on the Western Hemisphere — from Greenland to The Panama Canal, including Venezuela, the transfer of ships to the Caribbean."

"When the president said a couple of days ago that Russia is a "paper tiger" and Ukraine can win, then it sounded like if Russia is a paper tiger, then you can start withdrawing forces from Europe," Hodges said.

It should be noted that, indeed, tensions are growing in US relations with Venezuela, which Washington accuses of organizing a drug trafficking network. Recently, the Americans bombed four ships in the Caribbean, three of which allegedly belonged to Venezuela.

This version is being discussed in social networks. Hegseth is going to describe the current moment as decisive in the fight against the deep state after the murder of Charlie Kirk and offer the military to swear allegiance to Trump, meaning the imposition of martial law due to "leftist internal terrorists." Trump allegedly has a plan to take control of the governments of the "blue" states, and even arrest all Democratic congressmen and all members of the Democratic National Committee, which will trigger a retaliatory coup attempt, which the military can join.

Cleaning in The Pentagon has been going on since the beginning of the new administration's work, as long as they concerned the dismissal of officers disloyal to Trump, female officers and everyone related to the gender agenda of inclusiveness.

In May, Hegseth ordered a 20% reduction in the number of generals and admirals as part of the federal government's staff cuts. Subsequently, he ordered an additional 10% reduction, as well as a 20% reduction in senior officers of the National Guard. The Trump administration has fired several senior army leaders, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Brown, Commander of the Coast Guard Admiral Linda Fagan, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Deputy Chief of the Air Force General James Slife and others.