silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoHow Trump Is Laying The Groundwork For A Coopted Military, Now And In 2025talkingpointsmemo.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down15
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minus-squareTwatMcTwatterson@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months ago tl;dr: The American military is extraordinarily proud of being apolitical. If I recall so where the Wehrmacht in the 1930s yet Nazis still rose in the ranks. IDK man I hope you’re right, I really do.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoDifferent army, different country, different times. But yes, let’s not act like America is morally proof against such a rise in fascism. Never in life thought I would see what I’m seeing. But here we are.
If I recall so where the Wehrmacht in the 1930s yet Nazis still rose in the ranks. IDK man I hope you’re right, I really do.
Different army, different country, different times.
But yes, let’s not act like America is morally proof against such a rise in fascism. Never in life thought I would see what I’m seeing. But here we are.