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BumRushDaShow

(159,004 posts)
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 04:40 AM Sunday

Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown

Source: msn/Washington Post

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The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he wants to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities, officials familiar with the matter said.

The planning, which has not been previously disclosed, involves several options, including mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September to what is the third most populous city in the United States.

The mission, if approved, would have parallels to the polarizing operation that Trump ordered in Los Angeles in June, when he deployed 4,000 members of the California National Guard and 700 active-duty Marines despite the protests of state and local leaders. The use of thousands of active-duty troops in Chicago also has been discussed but is considered less likely at this time, said two officials who, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The Chicago effort would further expand Trump’s use of military force domestically, even when state and local authorities call the idea unwelcome and unwarranted. Administration officials have defended such deployments, arguing that they are taking necessary steps to bring back law and order.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/pentagon-plans-military-deployment-in-chicago-as-trump-eyes-crackdown/ar-AA1L5WAw

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Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
They want a war liberalgunwilltravel Sunday #1
Suits me. Paladin Monday #8
He's trying to start a Reichstag fire, keeps lighting matches, blue city by city. Timeflyer Sunday #2
Bring back law and order. A 34 count felon and adjudicated rapist will do that. travelingthrulife Sunday #3
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on reports that Trump plans to deploy the military in his state LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #4
Well said Bayard Sunday #5
They don't have nearly enough troops to take over anything Red Mountain Monday #6
Crackdown on what? Marthe48 Monday #7
1. They want a war
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:24 AM
Sunday

They are going to get it. They should be met by the Illinois National Guard and politely told to go fuck themselves.

Paladin

(31,480 posts)
8. Suits me.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 10:04 AM
Monday

I hope that trump's invasion of Chicago is an absolute, beginning-to-end disaster for the trump regime. I hope the results are so devastating that the trump-supporting shitheads rediscover their conservative opposition to the federal government's interfering in local and state issues. Wouldn't that be nice?

Timeflyer

(3,369 posts)
2. He's trying to start a Reichstag fire, keeps lighting matches, blue city by city.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:18 AM
Sunday

From the Holocaust Encyclopedia:

"On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship."

travelingthrulife

(3,100 posts)
3. Bring back law and order. A 34 count felon and adjudicated rapist will do that.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:18 AM
Sunday

Everyone in this maladministration is a crook.

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,843 posts)
4. Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on reports that Trump plans to deploy the military in his state
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 11:58 AM
Sunday

Bayard

(26,710 posts)
5. Well said
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 01:56 PM
Sunday

trump wants to put troops in every major Dem city to prepare for martial law. He will just continue to claim they are all hotbeds of crime to begin. Then the complete takeover will happen. Its all part of a plan. Putin has helped him plan it, and the meeting in Alaska was just for trump to report his progress.

Tell me I'm wrong.

Red Mountain

(2,174 posts)
6. They don't have nearly enough troops to take over anything
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 08:52 AM
Monday

if the civilian population decides to actively resist. And by that I don't mean violent resistance. Nonviolent means would make their position untenable quickly.

And that's if the guard stays loyal. They might not.

Marthe48

(21,608 posts)
7. Crackdown on what?
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 09:48 AM
Monday

Another city overrun by uniformed part-time soldiers for fake resaon they weren't meant to be employed for even if they were real. They will disrupt commerce, tourism and daily living, all to stoke the crackup of a raging lunatic supported by raging psychos.

I noticed the other day that SC National Guard units are in DC. When russia controlled the countries around its borders, they would send soldiers from other areas to control the local populations. The Romans did the same thing. It is a strategy to keep the troops loyal to the oppressor rather than to an area they have ties to or affection for. I look for the psycho brain behind the occupation of major American cities by National Guard or i.c.e. thugs to keep sending state Guards to far flung outposts to prevent loyalty to the Constitution of the U.S.A. and the oath each guard takes.






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