He quietly urged other military personnel to reflect on their own positions. “They should be confident in questioning possibly immoral or illegal orders,” he said, “remembering they are responsible for their own actions, and knowing others are asking the same questions.”
“If they have doubts about their orders, they are not alone,”
Fascists having less competent soldiers is far from worse, hopefully more and more walk away.
Now is a great time, too, since they’re not getting paid and if any of them are laid off the Trump admin has stated they won’t recieve backpay, which the Trump admin has confirmed is the plan.
It isn’t even about competence.
It is about not having the bodies to subjugate a people. And The People choosing to not menacingly wave a gun at “protesters” because they want a paycheck.
Further, if the enlistees who aren’t going to comply with illegal orders are still isolated individuals, they’re more likely to meet with ah… unfortunate accidents…
They are creating a culture of fear, distrust and a need to keep families fed, everything seen, everything heard.
There will be a tipping point, the direction is unseen. US citizens are still waiting for a savior, willfully blind it’s us or no one.