Trump authorizes US military to take control of land at US-Mexico border
Trump authorizes US military to take control of land at US-Mexico border
www.theguardian.com
Trump authorizes US military to take control of land at US-Mexico border
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Huh, I remember Putin also stacking up the armies along the Ukraine border for no valid reason.
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Going to war with Mexico seems perfectly in line with the racism and ethnic clensing.
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They're not moving into Mexico. They're moving onto US land, displacing the civilian authorities.
He's really digging around in the American system for elements that are explicitly loyal to him, not to the law, and trying to put them in charge. He found one in ICE. He's trying to remake the overall federal government to be that, instead, and to some extent he'll succeed but I think mostly he will just break it and make it a laughable dysfunctional band of idiots, instead of molding it to be the way he wants it.
I think he thinks that the military is going to be easy to mold into another instance of that, and I think there will be some small success, but I think the more likely result for most of the military is just that they'll think it's bullshit and it'll motivate them to resent and resist him as his orders start to get more and more illegal. I could be wrong, but that's what I think.
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Not exactly winning the hearts and minds of the military by golfing while the bodies of service members are repatriating.
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The U.S. Military has also spent multiple decades teaching decentralized command as a doctrinal philosophy. It is very much not organized to be controlled by top-down dictatorship.
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The USA military is literally the largest, most ethnically mixed, DEI enabled organization on the planet. One can spot a bunch of off duty army people by spotting how diverse they are.
The military does run conservative and they do war crimes in many countries every decade; but they, or at least huge elements of it, are going to shock many who think that military will be agreeable to being used in certain ways.
There will be some assholes and a bit of slack while things progress, then a wall of uncooperation. It will be amazing how units simply cannot move or follow orders later.
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What would be the objective? Depose current government and install a puppet...ok, but for what policy compliance? Indefinite occupation? Annexation of territory? I'm having a hard time believing any of those would be an achievable goal.
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So are we doing the insurrection act early then ?
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The gambit is that if you declare border land a "military installation", that means troops can patrol that land and arrest migrants as "trespassers on a military base" without having to declare martial law or any of that messy "posse comitatus" stuff. Of course captives are handed off to ICE immediately and who knows what happens from there.
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Thought he had already closed the border? Dude just stirs up trouble with close allies for nothing lol. Stupid fucker.
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I drove across the border a couple weeks ago and work with people that drive across every day. It ain’t closed and never will be
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Give trump a little while. If it isn’t closed, he’ll make it hell for any non-citizen crossing it no matter what it does to each country’s economy.
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