“The US military would desert if ordered to fire on citizens” is a form of Stockholm Syndrome and needs to be broken.
Like… they’ve done it almost every time they’ve been asked to. The National Guard have been called on to put down riots and insurrections hundreds of times in history. They’ve massacred thousands over the years. On only a few rare occasions, all of them before the 20th century, did any National Guard refuse, desert, or mutiny. And even then only some, not all of them.
drone operators have killed hundreds of US citizens deliberately over the past decade
Especially journalists and medics
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