The USA military is literally the largest, most ethnically mixed, DEI enabled organization on the planet. One can spot a bunch of off duty army people by spotting how diverse they are.
The military does run conservative and they do war crimes in many countries every decade; but they, or at least huge elements of it, are going to shock many who think that military will be agreeable to being used in certain ways.
There will be some assholes and a bit of slack while things progress, then a wall of uncooperation. It will be amazing how units simply cannot move or follow orders later.
Yeah. And, they’ve all had a steady diet of “plucky outlaw nobody breaking from their orders to stand up against a tyrannical system” all through their media growing up, and then a steady diet of “your job is to protect the constitution, this is how to deal with illegal orders” all through their training. And on top of that, Trump has been doing his best to piss off the military and disrespect them at every turn.
I have no idea how it’s going to play out. But even as far back as 2020, there was a radical difference in how the National Guard was behaving at BLM protests versus the local cops. Some of the Guard people said they basically felt like their main role was to protect the protestors from the police. Their whole culture and behavior is just different even from local civilian police, let alone from the type of neo-Gestapo that Trump likes to treat with.
I think people would be surprised how subservient and illiterate Americans are and how they when told, will bow to their great leader without giving it a second thought. Teaching national exceptionalism in school always bites you in the ass in the end. Just look at the UK.
The USA military is literally the largest, most ethnically mixed, DEI enabled organization on the planet. One can spot a bunch of off duty army people by spotting how diverse they are.
The military does run conservative and they do war crimes in many countries every decade; but they, or at least huge elements of it, are going to shock many who think that military will be agreeable to being used in certain ways.
There will be some assholes and a bit of slack while things progress, then a wall of uncooperation. It will be amazing how units simply cannot move or follow orders later.
Yeah. And, they’ve all had a steady diet of “plucky outlaw nobody breaking from their orders to stand up against a tyrannical system” all through their media growing up, and then a steady diet of “your job is to protect the constitution, this is how to deal with illegal orders” all through their training. And on top of that, Trump has been doing his best to piss off the military and disrespect them at every turn.
I have no idea how it’s going to play out. But even as far back as 2020, there was a radical difference in how the National Guard was behaving at BLM protests versus the local cops. Some of the Guard people said they basically felt like their main role was to protect the protestors from the police. Their whole culture and behavior is just different even from local civilian police, let alone from the type of neo-Gestapo that Trump likes to treat with.
I think many people would be surprised at how seriously the more conservative members take that promise to defend the constitution.
I think people would be surprised how subservient and illiterate Americans are and how they when told, will bow to their great leader without giving it a second thought. Teaching national exceptionalism in school always bites you in the ass in the end. Just look at the UK.