The military could barely pacify Kabul, at tremendous cost in lives, money, and munitions That was only ~4M people, and much looser rules of engagement The military won't be able to pacify Los Angeles bsky.app/profile/mmwr...
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Correct. The area of Kabul is 106 square miles. The area of LA County is 4,700 square miles. Paramount (the site of today's ICE action) is in LA County not the City of LA. This place is too HUUUUGE to pacify.
jun 8, 2025, 7:39 am • 1 1 • view
Although mentioning the national guard does bring up something important Smart blue state governors should have very serious conversations with the commanders of their state national guard
jun 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 7 1 • view
Oh I’m sure they have
jun 7, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Not to mention, they didn’t sign up to get deployed against their fellow Americans.
jun 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 7 0 • view
The argument "they're going to send in the military" is shorthand for "the military will go door to door killing people and will saturation bomb cities with air power", which is 1. Unlikely, 2. the sort of thing that causes previously uninvolved citizens to form militias backed by rival governments.
jun 7, 2025, 10:32 pm • 86 5 • view
Hey remember when in the 1990s NorinCo tried to turn LA gangs into paramilitary soldiers with select fire Type 56s and antitank launchers, but they got caught and that's why you can't get ammunition or arms from China unless you get them from a Canadian collector with an ATF special form?
jun 7, 2025, 10:39 pm • 11 0 • view
not quite, they got banned after they sold missile materials to Iran archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/us-i...
jun 7, 2025, 11:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait what?
jun 7, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
google Operation Dragon Fire
jun 7, 2025, 11:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, traditionally, few things are as damaging to morale as being deployed against your population. And, good luck doing anything at all with soldiers that are engaging in malicious compliance.
jun 8, 2025, 4:10 am • 3 0 • view
No. But it's in line with Trump's insistence on targeting California and Stephen Miller's demand to raid Home Depots, so it's a reasonable conclusion there was intent IMO bsky.app/profile/just...
jun 7, 2025, 9:43 pm • 341 25 • view
Worth noting that the Home Depot guy is a huge GOP donor and he's probably not going to like the negative PR. Could be Miller has stepped on a rake.
jun 7, 2025, 10:02 pm • 4 1 • view
Excellent point
jun 7, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Where do you imagine these 500,000 soldiers will be housed? Where will they get gas for their vehicles? Where will they get their food? At peak US involvement in Vietnam, we had just over 500K troops in theater and it was a logistical dumpster fire bsky.app/profile/mmwr...
jun 7, 2025, 9:48 pm • 555 49 • view
It's about 700k in the army and marines not including national guard, the latter of whom will be reluctant to fire on their neighbors. They couldn't subdue the whole country without reinstating the draft.
jun 7, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I can't think of a way to more thoroughly guarantee the whole thing goes south immediately than that.
jun 8, 2025, 12:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly
jun 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, I mean. To hold it from whom, and for how long? We already know how effective the US Army is at controlling local insurgent populations.
jun 7, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
100%. Because every person you deploy to Los Angeles cannot be deployed somewhere else. bsky.app/profile/enri...
jun 7, 2025, 9:49 pm • 439 29 • view
Last I checked, Hispanics are a very significant proportion of the Army.
jun 7, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
LOS ANGELES, TRUMP WANTS TO ESCALATE HIS BULLY PULPIT AGAINST THE PROTESTERS BY CALLING IN THE MILITARY WHICH IS NOT NOT NECESSARY! DON'T FALL FOR IT! THIS IS HIS PLAN!!!!!!
jun 8, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn't matter. Using military has the same baseline problems, coupled with even more logistical challenges, than using regular law enforcement. If anything it becomes even more of a losing proposition for the White House bsky.app/profile/socc...
jun 7, 2025, 9:55 pm • 334 20 • view
i mean if we're ending liberal democracy there's substantial political risk in issuing unusual and unpleasant orders to your military as well
jun 8, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
The Insurrection Act is not some "one weird trick!" to take over the country
jun 7, 2025, 9:56 pm • 426 42 • view
Doubt you'd ever get that. Most gun owners aren't going to open fire b/c they're not killers Blockades? Molotovs? Throwing water bottles and rocks? Far more likely – and often enough bsky.app/profile/redl...
jun 7, 2025, 10:02 pm • 310 12 • view
Thank you for giving us fact-based hope. We really are more powerful than we realize.
jun 7, 2025, 10:06 pm • 3 1 • view
Don’t forget IEDs strapped to drones, which have not really been employed in urban warfare on this scale before but would make things very, very challenging for the occupying forces
jun 7, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I could still see a lot of LA people with guns showing up to oppose ICE. Not all of them, or even most, but probably a non-small number
jun 8, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
I know exactly what the military does, which is why I know the logistics are more difficult in LA than in Afghanistan, not less bsky.app/profile/socc...
jun 7, 2025, 10:09 pm • 336 15 • view
There's a reason guerilla warfare is A Problem™ and if it's happening in a large metro with plenty places for people to hide???
jun 7, 2025, 10:12 pm • 64 4 • view
And strong personal gun rights.
jun 7, 2025, 10:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Might want to listen to what he’s saying here, folks. A city with buildings and alleys, cars, barricades, all kinds of things in the way and all kinds of places to hide is potentially friendly to insurgents and difficult for occupiers.
jun 7, 2025, 11:14 pm • 2 1 • view
Plus, Iraq would be a better comparison. Iraq was an insurgency nightmare, just like LA or any major city would be. A few months of constant attacks and soldiers would start deserting or turning their rifles on the officers that keep sending them out there to face more.
jun 7, 2025, 10:14 pm • 7 0 • view
A key difference here is that the soldiers would not be trapped on the other side of the world, but would be able to simply leave and walk home at any time
jun 7, 2025, 10:19 pm • 6 0 • view
Easy to tell who has never worked in a large bureaucracy
jun 7, 2025, 10:10 pm • 347 4 • view
And infrastructure you want to preserve for your own use, so you can't just bomb it all bsky.app/profile/itst...
jun 7, 2025, 10:14 pm • 290 9 • view
I've been told by people before that trump would just bomb any resistance, and uhhhh if a regime starts bombing its own cities, that means it is losing.
jun 7, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe. The Kent State Massacre suggests otherwise though bsky.app/profile/your...
jun 7, 2025, 10:20 pm • 464 30 • view
This isn't MOVE in Philadelphia!
jun 7, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
What's the remedy to agents provocateur like proud boys types infiltrating crowds & escalating? Like the boogaloo boys did in 2020. They killed cops, set the cop precinct on fire & everything got blamed on "antifa". The optics of "the resistance" are awfully fragile, susceptible to bad faith actors
jun 7, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure they're bright enough to figure that out ahead of time.
jun 7, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Or been in the military.
jun 7, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
General strike!!! Get the oligarchs to weigh in to stop this!
jun 7, 2025, 10:26 pm • 2 0 • view
or has lived in Los Angeles
jun 7, 2025, 10:11 pm • 13 0 • view
I can't criticize that, I've never lived in Los Angeles either 😆 But I know procurement!
jun 7, 2025, 10:12 pm • 21 0 • view
Yuuuuuup. I kept thinking that, looking at all these replies.
jun 7, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Depending on how this goes I think one major question is "do grocery store owners refuse service to occupying forces"? Of course if occupying forces bring plain clothes I don't know if they can be practically distinguished from Angelinos.
jun 8, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
It is worth asking "what is the government's objective here?" As far as I can tell: * Bullying for its own sake * Actually carrying out deportations with ICE to keep the numbers up for Steven Miller. The logistics of actually deporting people are challenging!
jun 8, 2025, 11:56 am • 0 0 • view
And blockades can be a lot more effective if you know what you’re doing. And if you *know* what you’re doing, you’d be using blockades and cutting off supply lines and using your small arms forces to secure/disrupt supply lines.
jun 8, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Portland 2020 is probably a good judge of about the maximum protester escalation.
jun 7, 2025, 10:04 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't think it's about opening fire. It's about showing enough force to be able to hold the line without firing a single shot. That said, I don't think it'll happen before the feds start shooting folks because violating open-carry laws is a major escalation that puts everyone in serious danger.
jun 7, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
When this started going down yesterday, it suddenly occurred to me the very large number of left-leaning and anti-Trump people I know in San Francisco who are packing
jun 8, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The new protest tool should be the vuvuzela 😆 Also, this point about people not being killers is well made. Loving this thread btw 👏
jun 8, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Last night, they threw plates lol
jun 7, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
The thing I keep coming back to is using this as a pretext to suspend Habeas, which in Admin thinking lets them yank anyone they don't like off the streets w/o court oversight. They already tried and end-run around Habeas with Abrega. An 'insurrection' gives them another angle.
jun 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
The prob with this admin is that he wants to be some kind of warrior-king (that doesn’t fight) but fighting in pre-Napoleonic fashion bc Napoleon realized the benefit of an administrative state to organize and coordinate resources effectively.
jun 8, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
In one sense this admin will make the history books, but if it weren’t for how we ended up making people rich and powerful here via attention and corruption, this admin would not be worth mentioning—if it was its own country, it could never rise to greatness or be noteworthy on its own it’s so bad
jun 8, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe that if they try to invoke the military there will be internal chaos. Hegseth is not well liked by DoD/troops, and being deployed against citizens would not go over easily
jun 7, 2025, 10:15 pm • 3 0 • view
Also, that's the sort of action places like Idaho might respond to.
jun 7, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
You're also going to have a decent number of active duty military that are gonna refuse because they'll recognize it as an illegal order. I don't think people realize how much it is reinforced in the military that the military does not operate in the US against US civilians.
jun 7, 2025, 9:59 pm • 6 0 • view
ICE and FBI officers can quit their job at any time and not go to jail, and they’re still dooming raids. Refusing an order of a superior officer sends you to prison and gives you a dishonorable discharge that fucks up your life for the rest of your life.
jun 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
So the thing about disobeying in mass is you're the boots on the ground with guns in your hands and your superiors aren't.
jun 8, 2025, 12:40 pm • 2 0 • view
And in fact your superiors are in a highly precarious position for having issued or passed on an illegal order: if the regime ever falls they're gone with it.
jun 8, 2025, 12:41 pm • 2 0 • view
History being written by the victor also means that punishments and non-punishments are also handed out by them.
jun 8, 2025, 12:42 pm • 2 0 • view
So all you're really saying here is you expect We The People to lose and MAGA installs a 100 year reich and buddy why don't you just go dig your own grave already and lie down in it
jun 8, 2025, 12:43 pm • 2 0 • view
So you're implying thr military is too stupid or to incompetent to know what an illegal order is? Good to know what you think. I'll stick with the folks who have told me what I know.
jun 7, 2025, 10:04 pm • 2 0 • view
No I’m saying if FBI and ICE folks who can quit their job without impunity are happy to do this shit, most military folks who would face serious consequences if they do something similar aren’t going to be taking a stand.
jun 7, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure. Plenty won't. But some will, and that means even fewer people available to try to enforce martial law.
jun 7, 2025, 10:10 pm • 3 0 • view
No they won’t.
jun 7, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
"They'll just do a joint op between the military, Nat'l Guard, DHS, FBI, & local cops!" It's clear Miller et al. haven't read the Mythical Man-Month but has nobody on Bluesky read it either? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myt...
jun 8, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
It's like these people don't understand how much of a losing proposition this is for the White House to even flirt with this. Idk if these people are making doom and gloom their personality for clout or what, but it's getting really old.
jun 8, 2025, 1:14 am • 30 1 • view
It’s more than that - they don’t seem to understand that they’re sowing the very division and doubt that these acts are meant to inspire. Friendly fire never helped anyone.
jun 8, 2025, 2:37 am • 10 0 • view
Exactly. We need to be pushing back against them, not giving them exactly what they want. If these people want to keep with the doom and gloom, they need to stay out of the way of our fighting back. Getting in the way just means they'll get hit by shrapnel.
jun 8, 2025, 2:39 am • 5 0 • view
I think people are just sort of being their amygdala with their whole chest-it's kind the same as the little voice in your head goes when it's stuck on overdrive, you know? ALARUM ALARUM ALARUM ALARUM ALARUM it's not well thought out because in that state, you're just not.
jun 8, 2025, 1:32 am • 3 0 • view
Which is a good reason to be nice about it (I try), I guess, but mostly: ignore. block if needed. It doesn't help.
jun 8, 2025, 1:33 am • 3 0 • view
And I totally understand being stressed about the situation at hand. Lord knows I definitely am right now. The thing is, doom and gloom is exactly what they want from us. They don't want us fighting back. We need to make their lives a living hell until they figure out that we aren't pushovers.
jun 8, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 1 • view
Totes. I mean I can at least understand it from a "be alert!" pov if that's all they're trying to do--thanks, we got it, but it's fairly harmless of itself I guess. Just blocked someone who literally wrote "Martial law is coming" and "there is little or nothing you can do." "You," who?
jun 8, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
When they *actually* say "resistance is useless" I figure bad actor likelier, but not interested enough to explore more before the plonk.
jun 8, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
Indeed. Resistance is a very viable weapon against these people. They're banking on no pushback, so when we pushback, they aren't prepared for it.
jun 8, 2025, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
And members of the US military are more likely to walk away from the job.
jun 7, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
IIRC, even the Feds in the Civil War—with a higher population—relatively quickly had to turn to volunteers for reserves, greater manpower
jun 8, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
They don't need to be deployed somewhere else. How many LA-level protests are happening elsewhere right now? None? Maybe one other city?
jun 7, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Also a majority of the army isn't combat arms
jun 7, 2025, 9:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Moving 500,000 troops to one point without months of planning cannot happen. That is also assuming you could find 500,000 people who are not in critical positions & that the logistics are already in place. Yes, the US can redeploy some troops quickly, but not 25% of their total.
jun 7, 2025, 10:34 pm • 119 13 • view
Seems like a lot of people don't understand that any competent military is based on superior logistics and planning, not super powered soldiers. Solider performance counts in battle, but you have to get those soliders to the battlefield first.
jun 7, 2025, 10:39 pm • 139 10 • view
To wit: Russia getting its ass kicked 10 ways from Monday by Ukraine.
jun 7, 2025, 11:22 pm • 4 0 • view
Well, Russia’s soldiers, equipment, and doctrine suck, but at least they have very low morale.
jun 7, 2025, 11:24 pm • 5 0 • view
When N Korea donated a bunch of soldiers to the cause and the very first result was they deserted in droves, that was a right larf!
jun 7, 2025, 11:27 pm • 6 0 • view
These guys have never seen a war, except maybe a Marvel film.
jun 7, 2025, 10:47 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s also extra interesting when the current SecDef is one of those idiots
jun 7, 2025, 10:41 pm • 32 1 • view
The US has the capability to easily and quickly send in several thousand troops. These are groups prepared for deployment anyway. A couple thousand from the Army and a couple thousand from the USMC. That's it. Larger deployments require significant preparation time.
jun 7, 2025, 10:55 pm • 5 1 • view
Didn't D-Day (to use an example) take months (at least) of planning and even weather forecasting to make sure it succeeded?
jun 7, 2025, 11:00 pm • 3 0 • view
They were planning that a year in advance. Invading L.A. would be easier but still most of the military is not ready to pick up and go at any particular instant.
jun 7, 2025, 11:06 pm • 5 0 • view
Wouldn't also a lot of military hardware be useless in an urban center like LA? Like, they probably don't want to destroy the city and want to keep its infrastructure, so tanks and jets are kind of off the table.
jun 8, 2025, 12:18 am • 3 0 • view
They wouldn't have even finished rail ops by this point.
jun 8, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view
You're aware there are military bases in CA, right? 125,000 of them are already here! CA is not Vietnam. It's a billion times more accessible. C'mon. Did you really try to compare the logistics of Vietnam to California?
jun 7, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah but everyone really liked Vietnam and generally agreed it was a good war so I'm sure doing Vietnam 2 closer to home will be fine
jun 7, 2025, 9:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Famously so
jun 7, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Vietnam was a lot of things but it wasn’t a *logistical* dumpster-fire (but I agree with the general thrust of your argument)
jun 9, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait. Is that Jim Amendments' music???
jun 8, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
Whether this is tactically wise or not, or even strategically possible, it seems obvious that ICE is pursuing an accelerationist policy and that this policy will enable frump to invoke the insurrection act. Why not take it to the place most likely to encounter resistance?
jun 7, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
also, I would wager most soldiers currently stationed in California aren't combat-arms, let alone readily deployable against protestors. Hell, the Army National Guard only has 45,000 combat arms *in total.* The Army has 70,000 combat arms, the Marines 120,000.
jun 8, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
Unless they're sending the logistics kids and the signal corps guys out there with guns, you can't hold Los Angeles County with 235,000 soldiers, most of whom are currently stationed in Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, Texas, and Georgia.
jun 8, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
If we have to get a 3rd amendment SC case out of this, this will be the dumbest timeline.
jun 7, 2025, 10:53 pm • 4 0 • view
"Where will they get gas for their vehicles?" The Trump campaign deserted rallygoers at least twice: once in dangerous cold, once in dangerous heat; by not providing adequate shuttle service from rally to parking area. The second time, the buses drained all area gas stations and ran out of gas.
jun 8, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
And they're not going to send clerks, linguists, cooks, IT specialists, chemical NCO's, F-35 maintenance troops, sonar operators, bulldozer drivers, etc., etc., to stand around carrying M4's with empty magazines, radios on different frequencies, and reporting to unknown chains of command.
jun 7, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 1 • view
As far as I'm aware, Trump hasn't checked of violating the 3rd amendment yet from his list, so that is always an option.
jun 7, 2025, 9:51 pm • 6 0 • view
Oh my God the Constitution is just a checklist isn't it
jun 7, 2025, 10:11 pm • 4 0 • view
I beg everyone who thinks this’ll be a government curb stomp to check our military’s record against decentralized urban forces and guerrilla insurgencies
jun 7, 2025, 11:59 pm • 2 0 • view
That person is really determined to give in to fascism regardless of reality, huh?
jun 7, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
And the moment an occupying army descends on LA, anyone with a rifle can interdict supply chain operations and tie it up in knots. At some point, people with nothing to lose realize they have nothing to lose.
jun 7, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
"I know, we could quarter them in the houses of the locals!" Ask King George how popular that idea was.
jun 7, 2025, 9:50 pm • 4 0 • view
well, we're sort of giving a wink and a nod to the constitution right now so the 3A might be just a suggestion at this point
jun 7, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Not /quite/ my point. More that if the government acts like those rights are suggestions, than the people are more likely to treat the government itself as a suggestion.
jun 7, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
This Two million number is insane. They’re not calling in the navy reserve to pacify LA.
jun 7, 2025, 10:07 pm • 4 0 • view
It's also a weird assumption to think that all of those soldiers would be okay with killing Americans, especially when a lot of those soldiers live here. Fox News viewers might think the cities are criminal wastelands, but the marines stationed at Pendleton know what Los Angeles really is like.
jun 8, 2025, 12:07 am • 3 0 • view
Not to mention the current Secretary of Defense doesn’t believe logistics is that important.
jun 7, 2025, 9:49 pm • 5 1 • view
Imagine SecDef WhiskeyBreath attempting to plan an attack. Meanwhile a student in a basement at UCLA has his Signal (probably) communications in real time. It's a wrap.
jun 7, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Also doing something like this is a great way to bring even more people onto the streets.
jun 7, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
With this bunch in DC we might all find out why they stuck #3 into the bill of rights...
jun 7, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Then we look to the Ukrainian babushkas and serve them dinner with a smile.
jun 7, 2025, 10:10 pm • 3 0 • view
LA riots had 10k national guards sent out It was a logistical nightmare
jun 7, 2025, 10:02 pm • 4 0 • view
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jun 7, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Military will sleep in parks. This is not a concern for them. They’ll air lift or convoy gas in. Also not an issue for them.
jun 7, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
The US military does not have the ability to air lift or convoy the necessary food or fuel for 500k without extensive preparation. You need large depots. Durimg OIF the US built more than 200 miles of bulk fuel pipelines in Iraq to fuel a force 1/5 the size being discussed here.
jun 8, 2025, 12:26 am • 3 1 • view
The military is built for kinetic operations not long term occupation and stability ops. The only way it was able to do this during GWOT was through relatively small force deployments and extensive use of contractors to fill in sustainment gaps.
jun 8, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 1 • view
It's like none of these people have ever looked at the force ratios considered necessary for operations in an urban environment to go door knocking.
jun 7, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Congratulations you've expanded the population of LA by 50% there's no water, the population now hates you because there's no water. You heard your base back home got looted the other day but on the upside the MREs have you so constipated that you don't have to worry about the line for the shitter.
jun 7, 2025, 10:51 pm • 6 1 • view
“Get in losers, we’re going to lose the mandate of heaven” is certainly A policy choice.
jun 7, 2025, 9:45 pm • 8 0 • view
That makes sense. Thanks for responding. I’m really hating the lack of coverage on this. And, as always, worry there’s something bigger going on that we’re being distracted from.
jun 7, 2025, 9:50 pm • 4 1 • view
What? What would be "bigger?" Why do people keep doing this? These people aren't subtle; we've been watching them for ten frigging years or more. It is what it is. I mean-- yeah, idk. It's quite enough without adding onto it, really.
jun 8, 2025, 1:28 am • 2 0 • view
Relax.
jun 8, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
Alot of great points here. Their incompetence is one thing we have on our side. They don’t know what they are doing. If they activate military on citizens, it will be shit show bc there is not 100% agreement in military it is legal. They can still do bad things but will not go smoothly.
jun 7, 2025, 9:48 pm • 3 0 • view
True. Stepping back it did look a lot like typical Trump incompetence.
jun 7, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Even if by some miracle they did manage it there’s still the entire. Rest. Of the country.
jun 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 2 0 • view
They don't need to police the entire rest of the country - just like they don't need to do ICE raids in every city. The vast majority of cities will not do anything.
jun 7, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. People need to stop with the doom and gloom and start looking at the reality of the situation. This isn't going to end how Trump and his people want it to end. This is a complete lose lose situation for him and his people, especially if he's actually serious about trying this.
jun 8, 2025, 1:35 am • 2 0 • view
Ahh, pretty sure the rules of engagement were not looser in Kabul, but outside that, yes to the rest. (Happy to be corrected though)
jun 7, 2025, 9:48 pm • 2 0 • view
🤘
jun 8, 2025, 4:38 am • 0 0 • view
Also with a far Far lower risk of defection to boot
jun 7, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Assessment and Action: breakdown on the LA military deployment and how it follows the authoritarian playbook. It includes concrete steps we can take now. 🔗 lfitzhugh.substack.com/p/the-author...
jun 8, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
They did ok in '92.
jun 8, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
Except that Afghanis had less compunction about hurting an American. And American troops had less than non-zero hesitance to smack down Afghanis. So that comparison doesn't translate to the greater LA area.
jun 7, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
This is also assuming that if shit goes full Posse Comitatus the odds of LA being the only city they would need to visit are pretty slim.
jun 7, 2025, 9:42 pm • 45 2 • view
if this actually goes hot you'll have protesters in different cities intentionally playing rope-a-dope with the fed army get rowdy in one city until they're at saturation then go back indoors and let somebody 3000 miles away carry the torch they CANNOT enact martial law on the entire country
jun 7, 2025, 10:28 pm • 103 27 • view
Rise up!!! youtube.com/clip/UgkxKvE...
jun 8, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
They have sworn an oath to defend the constitution. Will they even obey an insurrectionist who holds them and their values in open contempt?
jun 8, 2025, 12:02 am • 0 0 • view