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Even the US military doesn't have the doctrine to blindly follow any order under any circumstances. Or at least, that's what I would expect from any modern military. In any case, there is no real danger here and Pelosi is exaggerating a bit.

Fun fact: If there had been a clear chain of command and lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces had followed his orders without questioning them, then the world would probably have been destroyed in a nuclear Armageddon in 1983.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov




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