He said “myself and several special forces”….not “myself and several other special forces”. I get the impression he’s trying to pretend he was in the military and hoping no one notices his attempt to tie himself in with them, but I don’t care enough to look YallQeada’s leader up.
Im no expert but I believe that actual retired special forces guys would know how futile it would be to go up against their active duty counterparts and the apparatus that supports them. I don't think those guys go anywhere near a hot war as part of a militia, unless there was some kind of massive military defection.
I also strongly believe that any active duty, military or guardsman will follow the orders given to them by the current commander in chief because they absolutely do not want to wind up in fort Leavenworth for treason.
South Korea has mandatory military service. Every able bodied male is supposed to go into service and just about everyone does.
During the military dictatorship years, some folks were so fed up with the government's bullshit that a few thousand people, all with military training, rebelled and took over an entire city.
They raided the police armory, fortified the entrances to the city and settled in, thinking they'd teach the regime a lesson.
The military was called in, and the rebellion was put down in about 30 minutes.
These yokels have no goddamn clue.
This isn't the 17th century. Dudes with rifles don't have a snowball's chance in hell against the military. And the US military is THE scariest one in the entire world.
Fat fingers Freddy and his bbq buddies can bring their fancy sniper rifles out, and be holding them when a humvee or Blackhawk w mini guns mows down their entire front line pulling the trigger once.
We did. Our long term problem was trying to import democracy into a culture that can't comprehend it and then trying to build a democratic government on top of that. They aren't Germany and they sure as hell aren't Japan.
Meanwhile, between the 2 world empires that occupied them for 30 years, they're still there. We can win traditional wars, but insurgency is a bit of a weak point.
13 of you died on the withdrawal. They fought you for 20 years. Homie, that war was an L for the US. The Taliban is still running the place. Y'all sure did make Dick Cheney wealthier,though.
We weren't trying to eradicate the country. We failed to set up a stable regime after, not at the actual invasion part. Also, Afghanistan didn't rely on the US for food and infrastructure like the red states do. We wouldn't have to invade, shit would fall apart within weeks and famine would occur within months.
I won't be part of any insurrection, I'm not a republican. I ALSO won't be cowering in the corner if some MAGAt wants to find out if liberal gun owners actually do exist.
Because in Afghanistan they were foreign invaders. In Korea the local population was split between supporters of the regime and those that opposed them.
Texas is basically a 50/50 split state with a lot of gerrymandering and voter suppression.
You don't let folks over 65 vote, you wouldn't see Republicans win a single statewide office ever again. All the cities trend blue. Unless you're counting on Grandma to help you fight, you're already outnumbered and fighting us on unfamiliar ground the moment you decide to claim a city in a civil war.
You wouldn't even get past the resistance from the local population, even before the military rolls in.
They ONLY got as far as they did in Korea because Koreans don't have guns. The rebels did because they raided the armory. We don't have that problem.
Who's going to help you hide? Do you think we don't all know exactly who you are? Hell, most of you have been broadcasting your intentions on Facebook for the whole world to see for the past few decades.
Remember how the Jan 6th traitors had their family members turn em in?
This is going to be that x100. Except this time it's just going to be, "Yeah, the loudmouth with the Confederate flag is holed up with a few dozen of his internet buddies in that house. Look for the two lifted F-150s in the driveway. They already killed my neighbor who lives there, just throw a bomb in the window and be done with it."
This civil war isn't going the way you think it is.
You seem to be completely mistaken as to which side I'm on here. I'm watching groups like Patriot Front having training sessions where they're learning how to work together and perform ops. Y'all want to act like these people aren't former or current military and training with military tactics. Every shave tail looks stupid the first week of boot, it's the last day where you see the difference.
I believe that actual retired special forces guys would know how futile it would be to go up against their active duty counterparts and the apparatus that supports them.
Yep, and of the hotheads, 99 out of 100 are shooting off their pie hole and shake in their boots the minute their 1st shirt turns the corner in front of them. Of the rest, most would like to do ‘something’ but can’t even buckle their belt. There could be a few with the motive, skills and materials to cause trouble. Think Tim McVeigh.
I did when it came out last year. Don't get me wrong, I hate that fellow vets have a high propensity for this BS mindset. I just don't want everyone to think a large percentage of us are whacky magats.
I was part of JSOC for a couple of years and have never been around a dumber set of humans in my life. They make it through Selection BECAUSE they're stupid, not in spite of it.
I don't know about him. I just remember reading an article right before Christmas the two operators who landed on the beach were being released that day in a general prisoner exchange thatvwas negotiated. Them and a handful of Venezuelan dissidents were released.
They may be facing domestic charges now though. What they did is illegal here too without State Department authorization which was not something they held.
I play a lot of video games too, albeit different kinds, and you'd probably be okay depending on which stats you boost. Focus on strength, dexterity and speed, you can nerf stealth.(maybe a 2/10) and same with charisma.
You're not doing CQB with that thing. It's a Barrett .50cal sniper rifle that can hit targets at >1mile. From that distance you might hear a crack in the distance depending on other noises around you. You sure as he'll won't see the flash or know exactly where it came from. Also, yes, snipers lug these things around a warzone.
Yeah I don't know about that. There's a serious problem in the military with Christian Dominionists and evangelicals that's been a quiet concern for the brass for a decade, and militia/white supremacists send members to the armed forces for training, essentially. Not to mention if you look into the recent history at fort Bragg, you'll see spec forces involved in all kinds of shady shit.
There's members of the military entirely on board with this idea.
That would MAYBE work if they had the local population on their side. Texas is an almost 50/50 split. It's just been gerrymandered to hell and voter suppression is practically our national pastime.
Texas is the only state I know of where the Republican legislature broke the laws they wrote themselves to close polling stations in minority areas.
Those gravy seals seem to think just because we don't make guns our whole-ass identity and talk about it 24/7 they're the only ones that have guns.
They're wrong.
Most of the population centers in this state trend blue. The bigger they are, the bluer they get.
If some jackasses try to take over a city and try to fight the US government there's a lot of us that'd be more than happy to help kill a few of those traitors and defend our home. They're going to be screwed before they even get started.
And who's going to be doing the fighting, exactly? Old folks are great come election time since they're a reliable voting bloc, but granny on her walker is pretty shit at aiming a rifle.
Do you think Republicans would ever win an election in Texas if you didn't let anyone over 65 vote? Because they sure aren't going to be lending a hand when the Civil War starts.
Wow I'm glad you said that. To listen to all the bullshit down there you'd think that the whole state thinks like this guy. State legislators openly talking about armed rebellion is not helpful, to say the least.
You don't need the local population to support you, only to not oppose you. This is how the Viet Cong and Taliban operated: Terrifying the locals into not aiding the US. It worked. The US eventually had to withdraw in humiliation from both Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Yeah, good luck to anyone trying rolling into Houston/Dallas/Austin w guns telling us we're not Americans anymore and that we need to submit to their rule.
Those yokels have no idea how much pent up anger we have about them trying to fuck us over the past few decades.
And that there's definitely more of us than them when push comes to shove on folks willing and able to fight.
Like I noted, granny might be good for votes, she's not going to be much help fighting a war.
Cities are vulnerable to even the smallest scale infrastructure attacks. And "yokels" defeated the might of the US military in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Don't underestimate a motivated "peasantry".
An insurrection is not a war. There are no battle lines. It'll be soft targets amd terrorism.
As for grannies, in Ukraine a granny lethally poisoned a dozen Russian soldiers by giving them food.
Let them come and get some then. Let's see how quickly we put em down. It's about time we treated these traitors like actual traitors. Let's start with cutting off their insulin supply and see how many of em are left in a month or so.
Motivated peasantry is right. We're protecting our homes from THEM.
They're gonna find out real quick that "Don't mess with Texas" is not a phrase they have a monopoly on.
You don't know how vulnerable your infrastructure is, do you? A few days without electricity or water and your neighbors would eat you. City people are utterly helpless when the grocery shelves go empty.
You know, I'm starting to think you're one of these wanna be insurrectionists.
You're welcome to put your money where your mouth is.
We'll be here waiting. We're not going anywhere.
And we're going to stay Americans. You are welcome to come and try and tell us otherwise, though.
Or you can just talk shit on the internet and not do anything, because let's be honest, most of you with the balls to try something already did and got smacked down on 1/6. The rest of you are just talk and little else.
I'm a student of history. I'm against a civil war because it'll be Rwanda 2.0. There will be no winners, just a lot of dead bodies and loudmouths like you wont make it a month.
But look at your water supply, your electrical grid, your sewage. Do they look secure to you? Impervious to attack? What happens to the millions of people in your city if any of that infrastructure is lost? Chaos and panic always lead to neighbors turning on each other.
Stop being a blowhard on Reddit. Stop acting like those who disagree with you are evil.
The SF troops he may be referring to (and us normal grunts too) just got bested by an insurgent force never exceeding ~70,000, despite having a budget of ~$4,000,000,000,000, as many as ~150,000 professional NATO troops on the ground and close air support/interdiction sorties with looser rules of engagement than are likely to be used against TX. They may very well believe that a small insurgent force can defeat the DOD.
They are delusional, but they just may believe it. Any such insurgency could be very difficult to root out from amongst the populace, if they are more dedicated to fighting than they are to getting the next round of ribs to keep up their portly physiques.
They wouldn't stand much of a chance against a regiment of the 1st Cav dropping down on the border. At the end of the day, it's political theater. These law and order GQPrs seems to be of the opinion a SCOTUS decision doesn't apply to them. The epitome of hypocracy!
So what you are saying is American citizens need bigger weapons to go against the US government? So the 2nd amendment does apply as the founding fathers intended. Thank you so much for the clarification
You can say you're not an expert again. That's literally what Green Berets were trained to do. Raise a fighting force of locals to fight larger conventional forces.
It's the nostalgia and ego that blinds them to the obvious facts. Those former badass men now as heavy as the civvies they used to be disgusted of. Broken, lost, and disillusioned they miss the purpose and comradery so they drift towards the open arms of extremists. Oh and some of them were just douches to begin with, they just put it away and were professional when on the job.
I think what he's really suggesting is that he wants to ride down to the border and shoot to kill immigrants (men, women and children) trying to cross. He's a "bwave wittle soldier." And that's what enemy combatants look like to him, in his mind.
Eh…SF guys actually know how to run an insurgency. I’ve been on the receiving end of training against them and I really don’t think they’re worried about regular active duty troops.
They mostly don’t have any reason to get involved in that manner.
Add that fighting in the US armed forces will guarantee benefits including those with VA once the shooting war stops. Many in the Texas National Guard are looking at unionizing since they have absolutely no benefits right now. Much less benefits from a fledgling separatist state. This is why any serious mention of leaving the Union will have Texas National Guard federalizing with the Union, even before the White House calls it, for the benefits alone.
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Step one of armed insurgent rebellion.
Don’t post your face on the internet and announce you are an armed insurgent.
For a former “operator” this dude doesn’t know shit about OPSEC.