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Welp, here comes the military litmus test. Are you mother fuckers going to comply with orders to murder civilians?
Like they complied with orders to shoot civilians in boats in the Carribean? Or do those not count?
You see, the majority of soldiers deployed will be guarding street corners, they will handpick the ones willing to open fire, bust heads, etc., then make special units of them for the wetwork type stuff. That is their plan, like they did in 2020 with that special unit they made to disappear people in portland, cherry picking assholes from the bureau of prisons.
They will be nurturing paramilitaries too, no I am not referring to Ice which is a security service under control of the government and therefore not paramilitary even if militarized, but groups like the proud boys, 3 percenters, that they will nurture to attack critics and protesters and the like in ways they don't want the security services' goon squads to do directly. The police will go hard against anyone that fights back against them, give them a pass, share intelligence with them, etc.
These deployments they are just testing the waters and setting precedents, with 2028 in mind. With permanently fixing elections in mind.
I thought they all signed up for ICE?
They have already murdered civilians in Venezuela. They have been trained to fight and kill, it’s not like they are having moral this time. This is what that orange turd is waiting on all the time. He would rise up martial law and refuse to let any votings happen.
Seeing as the troops (different units I know but still.) obeyed the very much illegal Venezuela Raid I think it’s obvious what they are going to do if mobilized
People that comment about the civilians of Venezuela aren’t taking into account the psychology of those you know versus those you don’t. Firing on American civilians is going to be very different mind game, even for soldiers trained to kill. Being on home turf and having to actually destroy your own infrastructure and kill people you know have a culture the same as yours is different even if there are political differences. Hearing fellow soldiers screaming and crying for mom or help after being shot is a mind fuck in war, but then hearing civilians do it? Knowing you will go home and face people there that question whether you did it and then their treatment of you afterward is going to be a factor. Most are not career military…
There will be those that do it, but I’m willing to put money on more soldiers that second guess, hesitate, or purposely miss if ordered to fire.
The majority of them, yes.