let’s say you WANTED to do something devious...
The people would notice a few hundred thousand military being placed all over the country.
So...
You would have to invent some innocuous sounding exercise as an excuse to be positioning everything all over the country
Because the military needs to ‘prepare’ for country wide unrest an martial law... for some reason, right?
What does nationwide martial law do for the left?
We have to remember the underlying goals - to use the State to punish their ideological opponents (ultimately, Christians).
I still assert they are going to unleash the urban zombie hordes and use the police and military to protect those hordes as they destroy the suburban and rural landscape.
Lots of equipment has been prepositioned all over the country via those grants of MRAPS and machine guns and whatever else to police departments everywhere. The announced scaleback or cessation of such grants may well be a reaction to the reaction to JADE HELM and a realization that local citizens might get to the prepositioned equipment before the Federales can get to them or police departments might not be so reliable as had been assumed, even with DoJ “oversight” of so many of them.