Apparently they just purged ICE leadership and replaced them with people from Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection. The imperial boomerang is about to hit harder.

    • I was once debased and among those ranks - never met anyone who’d be okay with just invading a US city. There’s never really been a mental permission structure set up in the military for this. It was more of a sense of ‘we need to protect our paradise back home’ mentality.

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        The trope of the “inner city” hellhole which is “like Afghanistan” has been implanted for a while. The soldiers wont hesitate.

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        I don’t believe you enough to go to the US to find out. I think with the right incentive brainwashed evil genocidal ghouls will do whatever they are told.

        • Oh, you don’t live here?! Yeah, avoid the US like the plague then! You and everyone else it seems is officially not welcome as far as the admin is concerned anyway.

          And yeah, I don’t blame you for not believing you’d be safe, the US is a fucking wild place and is not to be trusted.

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        never met anyone who’d be okay with just invading a US city

        Downside is, there’s probably a sizable chunk of the military that falls into the “go along to get along” gang. They might not like invading a US city or providing armed escorts during ICE raids, but they are also not going to resist doing those things.