Donald Trump suggests US cities be "training grounds" for military
Donald Trump suggests US cities be "training grounds" for military
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Donald Trump suggests US cities be "training grounds" for military
President Donald Trump said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the military should use "dangerous" U.S. cities as "training grounds".
Trump was speaking to top American military leaders who had gathered for a rare meeting at Quantico, Virginia.
We had our asses handed to us by local militants and guerrillas in several "wars" now. You want to watch Americans defeat their own damn military? OK.
Having experienced war first hand I have to say you really, really don't want guerilla warfare in your streets. So much fucking collateral damage. All these idiots at the top are chickenhawks with zero military experience which is why they think any of this is a good idea.
Too bad they don't have to suffer and die with us as they sit in their mansions with their private militaries
The trick is that urbanized guerilla warfare rarely works for long without a heavily sympathetic populace who are largely willing to shield you. I don't think the US has that, not in numbers enough to matter.
This (and all the other Red Dawn fantasy) misconception comes up quite often.
Yes, we got wrecked by insurgents and guerillas... a lot. In large part because we actively did not want the land we were occupying (well, actually we couldn't take it for geopolitical reasons but let's just keep it simple). Under those circumstances, bleeding an army until it leaves "works".
Where is the army going to leave to? Are a bunch of ragtag high school kids with guns going to make trump et al leave the country?
Nah. We are looking at something much more akin to russia in Ukraine where it is just atrocity after atrocity and a willingness to level whatever gets in the way.
Also as far as the guerilla warfare thing goes: Sure, some parts of the US are conducive to hiding in caves. But, for the most part, you are going to be moving in areas where there are cameras on more street corners than not. Over the past decade, and the past few years especially, there has been a drastic rise in the number of cameras installed on streets and the like. Benn Jordan did a great video on them, if memory serves. But that also just ignores all the doorbell cameras and other IOT shit that is one "kiss the ring" call away from the chuds having access.
And that also just ignores that over half the voting populace want this. You think that "karen" who calls the cops when someone has a party is bad? Wait until she is reporting the people who just spray painted some of those cameras.
Nah. This is not going to be a bunch of plucky rebels fighting in between macking sessions while you play Pokemon Go.
I can't find it right now but maybe five years ago I read a REALLY good think piece from former Intelligence people that basically questioned whether the insurgencies in Afghanistan made a difference. And... the general consensus was "no". Bin Laden would still be dead, the Taliban crippled, and the region thrown into chaos before we got bored and left. Sure a bunch more people would be alive but it really wouldn't make any difference for the current day whether the insurgency kept bleeding the US military for almost twenty years or whether they just sat and waited for us to leave.
MAGA is only, maybe about 1/3rd of the voting populace, there are a large chunk of "republican" voters that are just dumbshit morons that dont know what theyre doing (i know too many) and a much, much larger blissfully unaware population that would whole hog not want anything to do with a hostile takeover by the government. Doing an actual invasion is a fantastic way of turning these people against the military.
This scenario would also make the various economic crises of the last twenty-ish years look like a calm Sunday picnic. America can sustain stupid non-productive forever wars overseas because we have a very-nearly functional society and economy here at home. If the American government starts trying to violently subjugate its own citizens, we will see in real time just how complicated, interconnected, and fragile our internal infrastructure really is.
Good thing more than a few of us have military experience and aren't afraid to use it also if necessary.
Would truly be a shame if anything happened to those cameras, hypothetically of course