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.

    • runsmooth@kopitalk.netOPEnglish
      42·
      3 hours ago

      The US is next door, and any conflict that arises would directly impact Canada across the board. Canada can expect displacement, logistical disruption, and economic consequences. I’d say these challenges would require responses from all levels of government.

      Maybe as a good thought exercise, Canadians should turn their minds to what does American displacement even look like for us? Perhaps this can be categorized as emergency preparedness and disaster response.

      Canada’s accustomed to dealing with diplomatic spats, difficult trade deals, or bad US foreign policy. But I’d suggest escalation of conflict in Venezuela, and domestically within the US, goes against the so called “firewall” strategy that North America had with the notion that the Oceans presented a natural and strategic defensive barrier. If American displacement actually happened due to regional conflict domestically, this would overturn a lot of existing assumptions.

      What does absorbing large numbers of refugees even look like, would winter serve as a natural deterrent and how long, how many people can actually be taken in on an Emergency basis? Do we even have a means or criteria for returning displaced folks to the US?

      We should confront these scenarios instead of dismiss them because the Americans appear to be steps away from them.

      • TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        57 minutes ago

        But posting this to c/Canada with a Canadian source is confusing when the title doesn’t clarify what country’s soldiers the story is about.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    10 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
    10·
    10 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.

    • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      29 minutes ago

      He raided Venezuela before he even had any partners for his oil scheme… I don’t think planning is their strong suit.

    • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      The plan isn’t to win any of those conflicts. The plan is to use them and more to weaken this nation and bring it to it’s knees. Trump is and has always been a foreign asset.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

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