According to The New York Times in "
Esper Breaks With Trump on Using Troops Against Protesters":
Senior Pentagon leaders are now so concerned about losing public support — and that of their active-duty and reserve personnel, 40 percent of whom are people of color — that Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, released a message to top military commanders on Wednesday affirming that every member of the armed forces swears an oath to defend the Constitution, which he said “gives Americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.”
American exceptionalism anyone? Or, as Peter Schwarz reports in "
European media outlets fear bitter class struggles in the US":
“The image of the United States as the centre of Western civilisation is collapsing before our eyes. Will it be possible to rebuild the old image again?,” commented the Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Tuesday with reference to the recent events in the US.
The only way to rescue U.S.-led global neoliberalism is at the point of a bayonet. Trump sees this. It won't work. But at this stage, it is the only thing that can keep the zombie ambulatory. I'm surprised it took us this long -- and a lethal global pandemic -- to arrive here.
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