Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    341·
    12 hours ago

    They know full well they’re going to Minnesota to kill a bunch of people for…blowing whistles.

    Right move in that situation is ro refuse.

    • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 hour ago

      You’re ignoring the nuance, which is a weapon of Maga, so be better. The orders don’t say kill them. It says “go and maintain order”. Politics aside, they think they are the good guys. Many of them don’t have a clue that they’re being used as puppets to escalate the fascist takeover.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        1·
        34 minutes ago

        Sure, there is what is explicit, but they have access to the same news I do, and know what this is about. The US military isn’t operating in an information vacuum like the Soviet army in Budapest during the cold war who thought they were there to fight Americans

        • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
          1·
          18 minutes ago

          They can’t ignore orders that aren’t illegal. They have to walk right up to the line and THEN refuse to cross it when shit goes sideways. But by then the tension will be high enough for an incident… That’s all Maga cares about. They don’t need to send kill orders to get what they want.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      23·
      5 hours ago

      I don’t think they do know that. How many brainwashed people have you met yourself? Have you listened to any Fox News coverage - what would someone who trusts that outlet believe?

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        51·
        4 hours ago

        I have met a lot of both active duty and retired service members. Not a single one of them would follow such an order.

        Have you ever met a United States service member?

        • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          You didn’t reply properly.

          An order to “kill anyone blowing a whistle” or an order to “kill any domestic terrorists who approach suspiciously”?

          And sure, but I don’t think our collective anecdotes are useful here.