I recently mused about Donald Trump starting his Emperor/King plans, but I didn’t really expect that the US would start down the road of what looks like destination civil war.

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.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    5 hours ago

    Anyone who deploys against their own civilian population isn’t a soldier. They are an oathbreaking war criminal and will be treated accordingly.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    7·
    5 hours ago

    I’m curious how Trump think he can run a civil war with martial law, manage Venezuela militarily, fight a war with NATO over Greenland, and maintain defence against Russia and China.

    Surely Russia and China will take advantage of the massive distraction in Europe and the Americas to take on their own “nation building” exercises, which will ultimately also weaken the US’s positions around their interests.

    The US military is strong sure, but that seems untenable.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 minute ago

      I don’t think Trump knows or cares about anything that happens, that doesn’t have his name on it