Summary
Republican calls for an investigation into a leaked Signal chat involving senior Trump officials are growing, with Senators James Lankford and Roger Wicker urging a probe into the discussion of sensitive military plans with a journalist accidentally included.
The chat, led by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, detailed a Yemen strike and has sparked bipartisan concern over security breaches.
Trump downplayed the incident as a “glitch” and refuses to fire anyone.
Critics, including Democrats and ex-intel officials, warn the mishandling could embolden U.S. adversaries and demand resignations.
Does anybody care about people in Yemen? Such a fuzz about a stupid group chat while the big story could also be the airstrike and murder of people. What happened in Yemen?
Because most people don’t understand why Yemen is being bombed and it’s tough to fully explain the geopolitical situation before you’ve lost your audiences attention.
Yemen attacking our boats - must attack back to protect boats. That’s the extent of people’s knowledge.
Even describing ‘they collapsed a whole building to kill one guy’ is tough - most people don’t know the US has a missile that can kill one person accurately. They can’t accept that people would be so cruel, so there just have been a logical reason why so many had to die to kill one person.
But…
Everyone can understand why inviting a journalist to your war chat group to skirt record keeping rules is a huge fuckup. It’s easy to understand and it sticks in the mind.
Nobody cares because they’re brown people and/or because caring about them doesn’t give righteousness points