No. But it's in line with Trump's insistence on targeting California and Stephen Miller's demand to raid Home Depots, so it's a reasonable conclusion there was intent IMO
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I don’t have enough facts and I’ve been lamenting the lack of coverage this has been getting ever since I found out about it (which I think was delayed to begin with) - but is there any proof this was intended to be the flashpoint? Seems like they were unprepared / not coordinated with LAPD.
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At peak US involvement in Vietnam, we had just over 500K troops in theater and it was a logistical dumpster fire
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DON'T FALL FOR IT! THIS IS HIS PLAN!!!!!!
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Blockades? Molotovs? Throwing water bottles and rocks? Far more likely – and often enough
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Not all of them, or even most, but probably a non-small number
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And if you *know* what you’re doing, you’d be using blockades and cutting off supply lines and using your small arms forces to secure/disrupt supply lines.
That said, I don't think it'll happen before the feds start shooting folks because violating open-carry laws is a major escalation that puts everyone in serious danger.
I'll stick with the folks who have told me what I know.
It's clear Miller et al. haven't read the Mythical Man-Month but has nobody on Bluesky read it either?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month?wprov=sfla1
it's not well thought out because in that state, you're just not.
That is also assuming you could find 500,000 people who are not in critical positions & that the logistics are already in place.
Yes, the US can redeploy some troops quickly, but not 25% of their total.
Solider performance counts in battle, but you have to get those soliders to the battlefield first.
Like, they probably don't want to destroy the city and want to keep its infrastructure, so tanks and jets are kind of off the table.
CA is not Vietnam. It's a billion times more accessible. C'mon. Did you really try to compare the logistics of Vietnam to California?
Hell, the Army National Guard only has 45,000 combat arms *in total.* The Army has 70,000 combat arms, the Marines 120,000.
Soldiers plus literally everything they need to be effective when people are even just passively resisting their presence? Thats a tough nut to crack.
The Trump campaign deserted rallygoers at least twice: once in dangerous cold, once in dangerous heat; by not providing adequate shuttle service from rally to parking area. The second time, the buses drained all area gas stations and ran out of gas.
Ask King George how popular that idea was.
It was a logistical nightmare
yeah, idk. It's quite enough without adding onto it, really.