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Troops Worry About Being Used as Political Tools as Abbott Deploys Them Against U.S. Citizens
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For his 79th birthday, Donald Trump is offering a military parade in Washington on Saturday, June 14. A first in 34 years, while the president has just sent the army to Los Angeles to crack down on protestors opposed to his migration policy.
ANALYSIS. The decision to send thousands of soldiers in support to the police responsible for arresting people in an irregular situation, unprecedented in a large American city, and a way for the US president to test the limits of the executive power.
From the Mexican border to Los Angeles, the president increases the use of the armed forces for heavy political missions, observes the New York Times. With, perhaps, the willingness to prepare the ground for a wider use of military power to crack down on opponents.
Troops Worry about Being Used as Political Tools as Abbott Deploys Them Against U.S. Citizens
Make sure you never miss a word of every single newsletter by becoming a subscriber to The Daily.Subscribe nowSome troops don’t understand why they are being deployed against peaceful protesters they’ve sworn to protect and suspect they're being used as political tools. They also aren’t all buying Abbott’s justification for the advance deployment.Military leaders are struggling to find and train enough troops to fulfill Republican Governor Greg …
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