Comment by Exodys03 on 03/12/2024 at 01:11 UTC

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View submission: What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Military - Trump doesn’t seem to understand the arrangement that makes the U.S. both democratic and powerful.

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I genuinely hope you're right and I think that the vast majority of folks in the military simply want to do what's right and lawful. How though do they distinguish the right and lawful thing to do if their Commander in Chief is issuing an unlawful order? What if their top officers are fired and replaced with solely MAGA loyalists who then issue unlawful orders?

Do you see what I'm saying? When the definition of right and lawful is muddied by those in charge, how do military personnel respond? My fear is that the default response from most would be to follow orders as they are trained to do and we've seen episodes in history where simply following orders has taken people to very dark places.

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There's nothing here!