Comment by Maskirovka on 02/02/2025 at 21:15 UTC

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View submission: If a U.S. president attempted to dismantle democracy or impose authoritarian rule, how would the military likely respond? Would they prioritize their oath to the Constitution or follow orders from leadership?

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Army Corps of Engineers was just like “sure.”

If it's not an illegal order, what do you expect? The types of orders OP is talking about would be illegal, and everyone has an obligation to refuse those.

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Comment by AnOnlineHandle at 03/02/2025 at 23:00 UTC

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If it's not an illegal order, what do you expect?

To not do it because it was incredibly dangerous, wasteful, obviously served no purpose, and came from the deranged mind of a senile man child?

Is that really too much to expect from other members of the human race? Is the bar really so low that people find these basic standards of how we operate in our lives a shocking thought?