Nothing justifies ambushing Domestic deployed National Guardsmen ever! Was this a false-flag incident? Or the act of some random lunatic? Neither is justifiable but we must wait for more details. As we wait, some thoughts to consider:
Trump knows that sending National Guards from other states into cities is controversial, provocative, and possibly incendiary. His decisions have been made with the intent to incite something, anything, that would allow him to stoke more protests and tension to justify even more repressive actions.
Ultimately, IMHO, DJT would like nothing better than to provoke (or to false flag) an incident that his cabinet will consider bad enough to invoke the Insurrection Act. His 2020 team of insiders plotted to invoke the Act back then, and now his current gaggle of extremist, pro-authoritarian advisors would be thrilled to see Trump become dictator. Right out of the authoritarian how-to guide-book that led 1933 Germany to empower its own one-party dictatorship.
Nothing justifies ambushing Domestic deployed National Guardsmen ever! Was this a false-flag incident? Or the act of some random lunatic? Neither is justifiable but we must wait for more details. As we wait, some thoughts to consider:
Trump knows that sending National Guards from other states into cities is controversial, provocative, and possibly incendiary. His decisions have been made with the intent to incite something, anything, that would allow him to stoke more protests and tension to justify even more repressive actions.
Ultimately, IMHO, DJT would like nothing better than to provoke (or to false flag) an incident that his cabinet will consider bad enough to invoke the Insurrection Act. His 2020 team of insiders plotted to invoke the Act back then, and now his current gaggle of extremist, pro-authoritarian advisors would be thrilled to see Trump become dictator. Right out of the authoritarian how-to guide-book that led 1933 Germany to empower its own one-party dictatorship.