So exactly how close was Trump to starting a nuclear war on Saturday?

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

So exactly how close was Trump to starting a nuclear war on Saturday?

[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]

@hacks4pancakes According to the reporting I read, we were one general away. According to the reports, JC Chair Caine refused tRump’s order to launch.

[lando@infosec.town]

@hacks4pancakes based on a convo I had over a year ago with someone from Redstone Arsenal, they constantly had to tell him no during the first term. I would assume very and we are lucky his McDonalds got delivered on time.

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes It would be nice if everybody could get it through their heads that he's always on the knife edge of pushing the button and he's insane. There's never a time, even a moment, that we're all not in danger as long as he's in office.

[fencepost@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes close enough for people to wonder whether orders would actually be followed?

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@Lando Wait, that wasn't me was it? There's not a glut of Mastodonians hereabouts as far as I know. @hacks4pancakes

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes

does seem to be some folks saying he was close enough this weekend that general caine had to say no:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ex-cia-analyst-claims-trump-sought-to-invoke-nuclear-codes-against-iran-before-general-caine-intervened/ar-AA21kP5w

[lando@infosec.town]

@Nonya_Bidniss @hacks4pancakes not unless you were rescuing a potentially toxic palm plant from my yard

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@Lando Ha, ok nope @hacks4pancakes

[perrin42@mastodon.social]

@paul_ipv6 @hacks4pancakes

"...and has not been confirmed by any official source."
"...A Voice of America analysis concluded his claims are often false or misleading, and useful to Kremlin messaging."

Unreliable but believable. How do we live like this?

[lando@infosec.town]

@Nonya_Bidniss @hacks4pancakes on the worrying side: one is hearsay, two is corroboration

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@Perrin42 @hacks4pancakes

one of the problems is that "the official source" is the WH, which has been a veritable flood of lies and evasions. another is that most of the journalistic sources we'd normal count on have been repeatedly muzzled and denied access to the WH and the pentagon.

[hamonwry@mastodon.world]

@hacks4pancakes

Trump belongs in an institution for the sanity challenged and no where near the nuclear codes.