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0 pointsohthatsnotright2y ago0 comments

> There's also the fact that a large amount of the US military would desert or defect from their posts if tasked with killing American citizens.

I'm ex-military and I don't agree with this statement at all. It's even less clear when you look at the number of people involved in Jan 6 and their affiliation with police or military.

You can pull from history on what members of the U.S. military will do against their own citizens so long as those citizens are properly vilified.

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sickofparadox2y ago

Sentiment certainly would vary unit to unit, I work with a number of vets (mostly enlisted not commissioned so that might bias it a bit) and when I've asked them about it I've gotten various answers from "refusal of unlawful orders" to "sabotage and desert". I don't know if its all talk but I certainly never hope the chips are on the table to find out.

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