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Originally Posted by MattyC
Okay this is speculative fiction at best now, but that's assuming that he is thrown out and is no longer in control of the military. I was thinking more what if the military is receiving orders that contradict "upholding the constitution" and "obeying the president". The military is from the entire country, yes, but I think it's safe to say most people in military service will lean conservative/republican. That's not to say they will all put up with crazy bulls***, but I'd be willing to bet the percentage of REAL trump supporters is higher in the military than it is in the general population. We see it with the police force, and as you mentioned, the national guard could see some resistance to federal orders.
If you start to get any situation where soldiers know their officers are disobeying the president's orders, or soldiers refusing to carry out orders, and it could end up snowballing into a whole bag of crap that we probably don't want to think about. But I do think it's a little naive to think it can't happen. Maybe not all out military force against itself (right away anyways) but states seceding (or at least trying), governors refusing to comply with feds (we've already seen it with the sanctuary cities), sure.
We're in largely unprecedented territory here. I don't think we can really rule out many possibilities.
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I would probably rule out your scenario.
I think that you would be surprised about the political leanings in the military. Most officers see themselves as apolitical, they serve the Commander in Chief, but don't concern themselves with the politics of it, it makes the job way to complicated.
The Chain of command works because it in a sense because at any point a illegal order or one that contravenes the constitution of the United States or the lawful commander in chief can be stopped.
So even if General Boomstick throws his lot in with a lets say Trump Insurrection, I very much doubt that those orders would peculate through the ranks. At some point you will get a this is a illegal order and I ain't following it.
I could especially see that if General Boomstick ordered his men to fire on other US troops unlawfully.
General Boomstick might say "Bah god men, we're taking the White House and returning Trump to Power, so we're going to have to kill the soldiers defending it" He might suddenly have three colonels arresting him for issuing an illegal order, or just shooting old General Boomstick between the eyes.
Also remember that there is also the pressure of the invalidation of the defense "I was following orders". If you throw in on an illegal order that defense won't stop you from seeing the business end of a firing squad.
I won't say it can't happen, the world is going kind of funny. I am saying that the statistics say that its not likely to happen.