The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Thumpalumpacus]

Trump reportedly plans to mobilize up to 1,700 National Guard troops across "19 states in the coming weeks".
The troops will largely be activated from "Republican-controlled states".
Trump threatened to send the “regular military” into Chicago and New York.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/wor...12837.html


Call me crazy but this sounds like civil war.

It's also execrably bad military tactics, trying to wage war on multiple fronts simultaneously and telegraphing the move far in advance. My Spidey senses are tingling - who's actually in charge here, what are they really planning, and what are they trying to distract from?

The entire "crime is rampant, we need to call in the Guard" is so obviously ginned-up bullshit for "we'll make the libs cry about this while all the other shittiness goes unnoticed." They don't want conversation about the Medicaid cuts, they don't want conversation about the strong attempts to seize control of the economy by threatening Powell, nor the extension of tax cuts for the wealthy. The Alaska summit, which was such a predictable failure, came about as a distraction too, I believe.

This isn't any sort of military exigency, and tactics/operational arts don't apply. This is about using the military as warm bodies in pursuance of a political agenda.