Today in deeply not at all fun Trump facts; did you know the Swine Emperor has currently deployed more troops to LA than the US military officially maintains in Syria and Iraq, combined? No, seriously:

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Trump Has Deployed More Troops in LA Than Syria and Iraq, Per US Counts

"President Donald Trump’s latest deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles means that there are now more troops carrying out Trump’s anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria, regions where the U.S. has executed some of its most intense and inhumane military campaigns in recent decades, according to official counts.

Trump has dispatched roughly 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to respond to L.A.’s protests of his immigration raids, for a total of roughly 4,700 troops. Meanwhile, according to publicly reported Pentagon figures, the U.S. has roughly 2,000 troops deployed in Syria and 2,500 troops in Iraq, for a total of 4,500."

As the article goes on to note, a Pentagon still operating under War on Terror logic while occupying Iraq and purportedly fighting terrorism in Syria, may well be undercounting the troop levels in those two countries; they've certainly done so in the past.

Regardless, if we consider the *official* deployment of military personnel to be a de facto statement of the regime's policing priorities, that still means the Trumpenreich is arguing that unarmed domestic protesters inside very small pockets of the Los Angeles area are a greater threat than militarized terrorist militias in two countries US intervention has helped transform into semi-perpetual warzones. Please keep in mind that the LA protests are happening on livestream, and there are hundreds of eye witness accounts in the public discourse from Angelinos saying there is no widespread disorder for the troops to quell. There is not a man, woman, nor child in America who can't verify for themselves that Trump is lying about a “rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States” going on in Los Angeles, if they want to.

All of which of course leads us directly back to our ongoing discussion about what the Trumpenreich is trying to use its militarized invasion of LA to sanctify in practice, if not in US Law. Trump wants the power to permanently occupy US cities, while engaging the military in both domestic policing and assisting the Gestapo in the regime's ethnonationalist mass deportation project; including apparently providing detention facilities for caged migrants. Furthermore, as Zhang ominously notes, there are clear signs the regime is exploring how to scale up what they're doing in LA, to a much more national project.

"According to a report by ABC News, the Pentagon is considering a plan crafted by the Department of Homeland Security to deploy more than 20,000 additional National Guard troops to aid with Trump’s immigration raids.

This would cost $3.6 billion over the course of a year, and would represent roughly half of the number of troops deployed across the entirety of the Middle East. It would also be an escalation of the Trump administration’s use of the U.S.’s colossal military capacity to attack and subdue the American public."

Folks, I'm just going to be real with you; you don't martial up 20,000+ troops from all across the country in advance because ICE is going to raid a bunch of cities one by one to hunt down brown people Stephen Miller's shriveled conscience cannot abide existing in his county. We're definitely going to talk more about the ABC report the author mentions at a later point in time, but what you're looking at here is the opening steps the regime would need to take if they intended to militarily occupy the parts of the United States that didn't vote for Trump without meeting organized, violent resistance.

Like a lot of the fascist bullshit the Klepto Kaiser is doing right now, it's hard to tell if he's going to go "all the way." At some point however, the idea that Donald Trump is just accidentally stumbling in to all the steps he would need to enshrine a militarized fascist dictatorship under a perpetual state of quasi-martial law, strains credulity. If Trump gets away with transforming protests into an insurrection and soldiers into policemen in LA, you should bet on the idea that the nazis will soon be coming for a town near you in that very same way.

#Fascism #Trump #InvasionOfLA #Imperialism #WarOnTerror #USPol #LosAngeles #Protests #MENA #Syria #Iraq #PoliceState

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من المقرر ترحيل ميثاق جديد إلى العراق في 3 يونيو 2025. من المفترض أن يكون المغادرة من مطار ميونيخ.

Am 3. Juni 2025 ist eine neue Charterabschiebung in den #Irak geplant. Die Abreise soll vom Flughafen #Mūnchen stammen.

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Fresh evidence of British war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq

The eyewitness testimony offers the most detailed public account of the killings to date from former members of UK Special Forces (UKSF), the umbrella group which contains the SAS, SBS and several supporting regiments.

The testimony, from more than 30 people who served with or alongside UK Special Forces, builds on years of reporting by BBC Panorama into allegations of extrajudicial killings by the SAS.

Panorama can also reveal for the first time that then Prime Minister David Cameron was repeatedly warned during his tenure that UK Special Forces were killing civilians in Afghanistan.

Speaking on condition of anonymity because of a de facto code of silence around special forces operations, the eyewitnesses told the BBC that the laws of war were being regularly and intentionally broken by the country's most elite regiments during operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those laws state that on such operations people can be deliberately killed only when they pose a direct threat to the lives of British troops or others. But members of the SAS and SBS were making their own rules, the eyewitnesses said.

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#Britain #Afghanistan #Iraq #HumanRights #war #WarCrimes

NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide

Yogthos schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:58:18 +0200

NATO was founded in 1949 with a primary goal of opposing communism and socialism, and crushing anti-colonial movements worldwide. The organization has a violent history, with its members required to serve under US command during wars, and its economic purpose promoting privatization and free trade. Despite its claims to defend democracy and human rights, NATO includes junior partners of color, some of which are authoritarian regimes.

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#nato #colonialism #socialism

Throughout the book they make the point that NATO, a US-dominated military alliance that threatens life on earth, is an unelected body accountable to no one. Its workings and decisions are anything but transparent and far from the eyes of citizens who elect the leaders of its members.

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🟡 NEW WARNING:

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ومن المقرر تنفيذ عملية ترحيل جماعي جديدة إلى العراق في 29 أبريل/نيسان 2025.

Am 29. April 2025 ist eine neue Sammelabschiebung in den #Irak geplant. Abflug soll um 6:00 von #Frankfurt erfolgen.

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🟡 NEW WARNING:

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• ON 04/03/25 FROM HANNOVER

من المقرر أن يكون ترحيل ميثاق جديد إلى العراق في 4 مارس 2025. من المفترض أن يكون المغادرة من مطار هانوفر.

Am 4. März 2025 nächste Charterabschiebung in den #Irak. Abflug vom Flughafen Hannover.

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• ON 12/11/24 FROM FRANKFURT

ومن المقرر أن يتم ترحيل ميثاق جديد إلى العراق في 12 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني 2024. ومن المفترض أن تكون المغادرة من مطار فرانكفورت أم ماين.

12. November 2024 Sammelabschiebung in den #Irak von #Frankfurt.

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