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First off, as with every time domestic terrorism is discussed, US armed forces cannot carry out hostilities on domestic soil.
Second off, it's 100 personnel. Barely a blip on the total number of deployable personnel, and it's an air defense group without offensive capabilities.
Clickbait is clickbait.
If the Taliban deployed 100 personnel to the US, would that be an aggressive act?
Let's not forget the US is widely seen as a terrorist state assisting in a genocide here lol
Massive non sequitur there. Taliban does not have military bases on US soil to fortify with 100 personnel.
I'm not disagreeing that the US is assisting in genocide. Has been for a while, and the top two projected candidates for US presidency will further perpetuate this.
But this 100 troop movement is insignificant and is being played up for drama and clicks.
It's putting 100 US military personal in place to operate a legitimate military target that will be one of the first things targeted.
We didn't give this to Ukraine, despite them begging for it, because of the implications of US military personal potentially being killed by Russia.
Seriously, to the people acting like the obvious next step to ww3 is no big deal, what happened to your critical thinking skills? Do they go out the window, along with any anti war sentiment, when a Democratic president is in office?
I don't want a single soldier of my country to die for another country that is occupying somebody else
I disagree. If we sent 100 personnel with an air defense group to Ukraine, shit would get pretty real pretty fast. Sending people is a whole different commitment to sending weapons.
I had an old instructor who liked to say "when it comes to breakfast, what's the difference between the chicken and the pig? The chicken made a contribution, the pig made a commitment."
Sending our own troops stops being a contribution and starts being a commitment.
I don't think it would get that real. I think Russia would get big mad, and its few allies would condemn it, but they can barely wage war against Ukraine. There's no way they could take on the US too.
They could use nukes, but I don't think they're desperate enough to start a nuclear war. That would be suicide.