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If Trump wins the election, US cities are at risk of military takeovers and mass deportations
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Hi former soldier here, I can offer some educated insight on this. What's likely to happen in the very short term of such an order is the Joint Chiefs refuse it. Trump replaces them and the next set refuses it. This will happen a few more times before he gets someone willing to tell him yes, but they know the military under them isn't going to respond. If Trump insists on this path he will likely try to directly order smaller units to do what he wants. Any unit that does will find it's leaders immediately relieved of command by their superiors. If some small unit does find it's way out into the public it's likely a general will order the military police to go round them up on charges of deserting their post.
It will be very messy and Authoritarians hate messy. Much more likely is they give the Proud Boys and the KKK uniforms and guns and call them soldiers, along with any federal agents he can recruit again. The actual military is going to be very resistant to shooting at Americans. We've spent the last 20 years sweating, bleeding, and even dying to protect Americans. Orders to go after Americans en masse, (instead of single Americans overseas on very good evidence they're working with enemy militants), will require a complete change in ideology and essentially invalidates 20 years of effort on the part of the current force. I've seen guys refuse to moderate uniform standards for a command mandated fun event over this exact issue. ("My friends died wearing this uniform, I'll be damned if I disrespect it like that") I highly doubt Trump will change that in any kind of short order.
Sounds like the evolution of all that would take years anyway... so it's just a matter if he leaves office ever if elected again.
The scary part to me is when he inevitably goes around the military again. In his last term he used federal agents to do what the military would not with BLM protesters.