Well I cant blame people for being vigilant, we should always be vigilant.....but I will blame people for sowing panic or false truths.
Just the facts please.
And these are OUR troops.
Citizen soldiers, our nieces, our nephews, our children, our neigbors.
“And these are OUR troops. Citizen soldiers, our nieces, our nephews, our children, our neighbors.”
I agree that Jade Helm is just another exercise. The stated and most likely objective is getting the lads ready again to do their job in Europe. The troops being trained are the “stay behind boys” that would be used to battle the renewed/rebranded/remanufactured Slavic menace from the East.
Further, I agree that the US as currently divided socially and politically would be a very high hill to take, let alone hold against a determined opposition of any size.
Finally, I concur that there would be a high rate of “going south” by the current military, especially amongst the mostly “conservative/patriotic” combat formations.
However, the western military of every nation and age, including our own have a very high ratio of obeying orders whether to fight or fold against any adversary at which they are pointed.
American’s are very good at killing Americans. When we can’t get at others to kill, we like to kill each other.
Tarelton’s Rangers, the Federal Volunteers who gleefully invaded their own country in 1861, the many many times the militia, Guard, or US Regulars were used to put down civil and labor unrest as in the NY Draft Riots, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the Bonus Marchers in 1932 to name just a few of the most famous.
There is a reason Commander Zero and the leftists he serves are driving conservative and Christians out of the military by making it overtly hostile to us everywhere he can.
It isn’t the love of diversity, sexual deviancy or irreligious tolerance that drives his actions since 2009.
It is power and its planned retention.