WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.
Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets.
Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation’s capital would be “LIBERATED today!” He said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”
Violent crime in Washington D.C. is actually at a 30 year low.
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People keep thinking the US is a magic wand that can just go into other countries and change them. The US has had long-standing contractual obligations for military intelligence, to hold political stalemates to halt WWIII, and other geopolitical structures with Israel and surrounding nations. Waving the magic wand would cause instability elsewhere on the planet, which would lead to more death, possible nuclear weapon deployments, and the end of humanity.
Genocide is always bad, and should have been stopped by any and/or all world powers, (remember, there are other nations around the globe) but it is not a single monochrome US issue that people seem to think it is.
You can’t help others until you can help yourself. The US can’t help itself now partly due to to monochrome voters not voting to save their own nation, partly because the Democrat party abandoned blue-collar workers and Mango Mussolini said the right words so they’d believe he’d help them. These same people will bitch about CIA involvement in Central- and South-American countries and the chaos it caused (rightly so) and how we shouldn’t interfere with other governments, completely missing the hypocrisy that it’s just cherry-picking manipulation of other nations.
No idea how so many people just blindly believe, “well that’s bad, so it’s our job fix it, even if it means destroying our own nation,” at a global scale. Life doesn’t work that way, even with the best of intentions.
You’re trying to explain international relations to people who have absolutely no grasp on international relations, don’t care, and even if they did, would still choose their perceived moral superiority over international relations.
Their brains can conceive “genocide bad” but any other nuance is lost on them.