Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      3 months ago

      Could be; both are utterly illegal and any soldier who follows an order to attack either deserves to be prosecuted

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I don’t think it’s so black and white. A lot of those soldiers are barely surviving and their money feeds their kids. Enlisted don’t have the luxury of disobeying orders blindly, that law is applicable to the officers issuing them.

        Having said that, as a vet, I would do malicious incompetence and sabotage our mission in “incompetent” ways as much as possible. Also, I would never open fire on innocent civilians no matter what.

        • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I don’t think it’s so black and white.

          Legal Eagle did a video about this. Ultimately an American soldier is liable for carrying out illegal orders. Refusing illegal orders is extremely complicated, but carrying them out is still illegal and they are subject to the law. It doesn’t matter if they were “just following orders”.

          https://youtu.be/wkaS3-9WvM8

          Edit: spelling

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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          3 months ago

          Sorry but levying war against the United States is the one crime laid out in the Constitution. Don’t Do It.

            • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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              3 months ago

              They know full well they’re going to Minnesota to kill a bunch of people for…blowing whistles.

              Right move in that situation is ro refuse.

              • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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                3 months ago

                I don’t think they do know that. How many brainwashed people have you met yourself? Have you listened to any Fox News coverage - what would someone who trusts that outlet believe?

                • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
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                  3 months ago

                  I have met a lot of both active duty and retired service members. Not a single one of them would follow such an order.

                  Have you ever met a United States service member?

              • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
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                3 months ago

                You’re ignoring the nuance, which is a weapon of Maga, so be better. The orders don’t say kill them. It says “go and maintain order”. Politics aside, they think they are the good guys. Many of them don’t have a clue that they’re being used as puppets to escalate the fascist takeover.

      • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Prosecuted? Maybe. Summary execution, definitely. They aren’t soldiers. Soldiers took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Anyone attacking civilians and protestors is just a regular old fashioned mass murderer.

    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      At this point I think it is distraction. Notice that if he actually intends on doing something he just does it (giving Russia edge over Ukraine, Venezuela etc).

      If that’s not his choice, but wants to distract media (hello Epstein) he just talks about it (for example aid to Ukraine, help to Iranians).

      • Mantzy81@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        2 weeks. Those things will be done in 2 weeks.

        Always 2 weeks. Never ever done, but 2 weeks.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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        3 months ago

        He telegraphed intent to attack Venezuela for months before actually sending the military to kidnap their president.

        • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          That’s because to do the mission he needed to get snug Navy present there. He used drug snuggling smuggling as an excuse. And that took few months.

          Notice that once mission was performed now the drugs are no longer a problem.