Randahl FinkImagine the strength of the free world, if the American people had elected a president who joined the European alliance and sent marines to take Crimea in Ukraine instead of Kharg Island in Iran.
Miles Offit... 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@randahl If Trump sent the Marines to Ukraine it's not clear who they would be targeting.
Conny Nasch
Becca@connynasch @dcdeejay @randahl
this is a perspective pitched by the US media
in reality, the marines have long been a deeply troubled force with religious extremists at the helm and embedded throughout
etc etc, even tho AF person
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984700148/the-military-confronts-extremism-one-conversation-at-a-time
tl;dr: the marines were always the big domestic terror threat behind the cops
@connynasch @dcdeejay @randahl "Young soldiers in the division, members of an underground band of neo-Nazi skinheads, shot and murdered two Black pedestrians in nearby Fayetteville.
"But we discovered that the signs for that activity were there all along. We just didn't know what to look for or what to pay attention to — but we learned from that.""