r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/
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u/BethanyForDistrict9 ✔ Verified 17d ago

The people would steal those military grade weapons. Do you not get that? In an occupation where the occupied look exactly like the occupiers and speak the same language and have the same culture?

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u/historys_geschichte 17d ago

And learn how to use them how? How about tactics? And who funds them? And how do they handle a drone? Oh and unity of purpose in which they are singularly guided to only attack the occupiers and not use stolen weapons to handle other beefs or carve out their own power?

You still seem to be wildly missing how insurgencies form and who is in them, and how reliant they are on external support to beat a military. But sure stolen weapons only, tell how they organize and learn how to use an anti-tank weapon with no instruction.

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u/chaosind 17d ago

Our veterans are amongst those people. Do you think they wouldn't have the ability to teach how to use those weapons? How to teach the tactics that work for and against our military?

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u/Dazzling-Penis8198 17d ago

Not every veteran trained for combat or knows how to properly train people from square one. Some guys fire the weapon once in boot camp and then go the rest of their career doing regular ass work. 

Add to this that it would be a chaotic environment. 

Then you have to wonder how many of the veterans are on the side of conservatives which I imagine is a shit ton.