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Having the army on side is predictable but not a cast iron guarantee of much. People go into the armed forces for a variety of reasons. To be honest, I would be more concerned about those forces being used to fulfil an expansionist agenda than the extent to which they might be used against the public. At this point it more helpful to divert from comparisons with Hitler - which have been quite legitimate - and start to look for patterns elsewhere. Then there’s the question of the National Guard. The American structure is quite different from a lot of other countries. It’s possible that the Jefferson concept of a weak union of strong states might make for a bit of a safety net. I’m not familiar enough with the system. I would be more worried about far right groups like The Proud Boys, The Oaf Keepers and The Three Percenters than I would be about the formal services. That’s where the trouble will start. At some point a far right gun group is going to drive into a black neighbourhood… It almost happened the other day in Cincinnati, when a bunch of Neo Nazis started a protest on a bridge before they were chased off by the locals. But what happens when everyone is armed? If anyone wants to see an example of this, read Laura Silber and Alan Little’s excellent book, ‘The Death of Yugoslavia’. Yes, the formal army was used against individual states but in a lot of cases, the trouble was the crimes committed by the paramilitary groups. These were the ones who performed most of the ethnic cleansing. I think this is how a potential civil war will start. The road map is the civil war in the former Yugoslavia.
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@erinmac4750 I'm sorry but I'm not American and I don't know who Taurio is. Thanks for your comments.
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