How Trump deploys and instrumentalizes the military on American soil
From the Mexican border to Los Angeles, the president is increasingly using the armed forces for politically charged missions, observes The New York Times. This may be in an effort to pave the way for a broader use of military power to suppress opponents.
He started by drastically increasing the number of troops on the border with Mexico. Then, when Los Angeles residents took to the streets to protest immigrant deportations over the weekend [of June 7 and 8], Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to restore order. When the governor of California opposed this decision, Trump dug in his heels, sending in the army and even more National Guard troops .
Since returning to the White House in January, the president has gradually increased his use of the military at home. He is testing legal and political limits by deploying troops trained for overseas operations to war zones within his own country to perform missions typically handled by local police forces or border patrols.
There are now more US troops in Los Angeles than in Syria and Iraq, said Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesman, relaying the information on X on Wednesday [June 11]:
“This is exactly what Americans voted for: the defense of our people and our homeland.”
The goal, according to several experts and former high-ranking officials, could be to accustom Americans to seeing soldiers on the streets of major cities, and thus open up a path for Donald Trump to more actively exploit his status as commander-in-chief of the armed forces to suppress opposition and protests.
For the billionaire's supporters, this mobilization of the army on American soil to maintain order is long overdue. His detractors, on the other hand, denounce a worrying development, a sign of the politicization of the army and creeping authoritarianism.
“What worries me most is the trivialization of the army's political commitment, and this new, very broad interpretation of po
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