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On its own.
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Mobilized under Title 10, they are now DoD assets. President controls, not Governor.
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That's the plan. Interpose state and local between feds and public.
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It's also still orders of magnitude too few personnel. 10K is nothing in a city.
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The nature of the limited access means you could make a real political stand against Federal forces to drive some kind of national reckoning over Trump - or force DHS et al to realize they will have to use violence against NY Guard/LE etc, first, not members of the public.
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The nature of the limited access means you could make a real political stand against Federal forces to drive some kind of national reckoning over Trump - or force DHS et al to realize they will have to use violence against NY Guard/LE etc, first, not members of the public.
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...GOP understands this too, or Trump continues to TACO until 26. Because otherwise, a broken USA is very bad for everyone.
You should consider what plans Europe might need to fight on the Blue side to secure the nukes.
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Except he has nothing like the mechanism to effect that grasp via coercion. To wit - he can't control a single important city - even DC which is small, but it's an admin city. And there are significant political fault lines that trip before real consolidation.
Our best hope is someone in the...
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Homie panicked and f*cked up.
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Not gonna matter IMO. Paying merc salaries doesn't make potable water more plentiful, create land for a base to house them, or minimize the threat of things like off-the-shelf FPV drones launched from nearby buildings on 5G cell signals
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I mean, that too - it was so silly. Someone watched too much The Rookie.
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How can we celebrate our putative occupiers?
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Not my first time.
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They were an excellent army* poorly used by the political leadership that didn't understand the conflict they faced. 🤔
*In A Respectable Army, they discuss the Brits at Bunker Hill, making the point that it took incredible bravery and discipline to make the third assault.