Axulus
Veteran Member
And don't forget the absolutely insane conspiracy theories a huge percent of the population believes in. All Trump and his cronies have to do, in JD Vance's words, is create a fake story to justify just about anything, and a significant percent of the military (and population as a whole) will believe it wholeheartedly.And there's a big difference between obeying an order to attack citizens, and obeying an order to attack domestic terrorists. An officer could easily be swayed to do the latter - even if it is only the choice of words that is different.As counter-intuitive as it sounds, the military gets a vote on this. Trump might not put any Mark Milley's on his staff, but he can't replace the whole chain of command. And he doesn't have as many 'loyalists' in the military as he thinks he has, not after how he disparaged it time and again. My graduating class is now O-6 or above and most can't stand him. Even the one's who 'wouldn't mind if he was president' would never follow an order pitting them against the US citizenry.
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I am not confident that individual soldiers will disobey orders that they suspect aren't totally legal. The military is a top-down organization. They go where they are told to go and do what they are told to do. They may not like their leaders, but obedience is drilled into them.
And that goes double if those "terrorists" are already engaged in violent struggle with the police and/or National Guard.
Domestic terrorism, starting wars, rebellion/insurrection, pedophile rings/child sacrafice, white replacement, religious persecution, Marxism, working as foreign agents, destorying the constitution. You name it, whatever lies they need. And once some of the military leadership believes in it (as they inevitably will, being part of the significant percent of the human race vulnerable to this insanity), and a significant percent of the underlings as well, you can get enough support to carry it out. And you can spin out a fake legal theory. They will then carry it out not based on a belief of defying illegal orders, but a false belief that the threat is so great that the orders are legal.
Anyone who stands in the way is part of the swamp/deep state, hates Trump, democrat judge, evil and part of the plot, etc.
To paraphrase Voltaire, if they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities.
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