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It has been said many times before but tanks and planes cannot enforce a no-gathering order, they cannot stand on street corners enforcing curfews. Tanks and pl
by sickofparadox 3y ago
It has been said many times before but tanks and planes cannot enforce a no-gathering order, they cannot stand on street corners enforcing curfews. Tanks and planes cannot defend the incredibly fragile (to attackers) US energy grid, which is too spread out and vulnerable to be defended by boots on the ground anyway. There's also the fact that a large amount of the US military would desert or defect from their posts if tasked with killing American citizens. Organized rebel groups would receive aid from our geopolitical adversaries, and the highways would be destroyed within weeks or months of the anarchy setting in. If the US ever suffered a civil war today, it would end as a country overnight, possibly permanently.
- ohthatsnotright 3y ago> There's also the fact that a large amount of the US military would desert or defect from their posts if tasked with killing American citizens. I'm ex-military and I don't agree with this statement at all. It's even less clear when you look at the number of people involved in Jan 6 and their affiliation with police or military. You can pull from history on what members of the U.S. military will do against their own citizens so long as those citizens are properly vilified.
- sickofparadox 3y agoSentiment certainly would vary unit to unit, I work with a number of vets (mostly enlisted not commissioned so that might bias it a bit) and when I've asked them about it I've gotten various answers from "refusal of unlawful orders" to "sabotage and desert". I don't know if its all talk but I certainly never hope the chips are on the table to find out.