{"id":23109,"date":"2026-09-23T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23109"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:01:24","slug":"trump-admits-to-war-crimes-during-un-speech-command-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23109","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admits To War Crimes During UN Speech | Command Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guy Hegseth\/Trump have in charge of the new tests for military officer promotion doesn&#8217;t have the basic experience to know how to judge competence at high officer levels. When speaking about the current process, he says things that are just wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The historical example Hegseth cites as what inspired him was an exercise to test maneuver and communications capability, not as a test for promotions. It was only used to evaluate commanders as a secondary element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of the things Hegseth says is needed to evaluate high level officers, are already done&#8230;he talks as if he is not aware of this. Is he ignorant, or\/and is the point to these tests something else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In justifying the new policy, multiple things Hegseth said about US military history was inaccurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump Admits To War Crimes During UN Speech | Command Post\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIl1AF8yZ0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guy Hegseth\/Trump have in charge of the new tests for military officer promotion doesn&#8217;t have the basic experience to know how to judge competence at high officer levels. When speaking about the current process, he says things that are just wrong. <\/p>\n<p>The historical example Hegseth cites as what inspired him was an exercise to test maneuver and communications capability, not as a test for promotions. It was only used to evaluate commanders as a secondary element. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of the things Hegseth says is needed to evaluate high level officers, are already done&#8230;he talks as if he is not aware of this. Is he ignorant, or\/and is the point to these tests something else? <\/p>\n<p>In justifying the new policy, multiple things Hegseth said about US military history was inaccurate. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pIl1AF8yZ0I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,162,455,221,770,259,2285,170,1040,1041,158,1132],"class_list":["post-23109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-department-of-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-history","tag-military","tag-secretary-of-defense","tag-trump","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-war","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23110,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109\/revisions\/23110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}