• caboose2006@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    They have a military. It’s called the national guard. But yeah the question of secession was settled back in the 1860s.

    Short of a massive and sustained general strike or a violent revolution nothing is changing in this country dem or republican. Even the democrats are right wing.

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      24 hours ago

      The national guard is mobilized to address state emergencies and support the military abroad. Any state’s national guard is woefully inadequate to defend against foreign threats

      • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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        20 hours ago

        A ton of Iraqi freedom was done by NoGo units…

        They were running all convoys, for example.

        That said, when you cut out the imperialism, and focus on defense, we’d only need like 10% of the current budget, nationally, anyways.