President Donald Trump said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the military should use “dangerous” U.S. cities as “training grounds”.
Trump was speaking to top American military leaders who had gathered for a rare meeting at Quantico, Virginia.
This scenario would also make the various economic crises of the last twenty-ish years look like a calm Sunday picnic. America can sustain stupid non-productive forever wars overseas because we have a very-nearly functional society and economy here at home. If the American government starts trying to violently subjugate its own citizens, we will see in real time just how complicated, interconnected, and fragile our internal infrastructure really is.