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.

  • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 hours 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
      2·
      6 hours 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
        11·
        5 hours 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.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Levying war against the United States doesnt only consist of instruction to massacre; it includes the whole military operation by active-duty troops. Don’t.