Bloomberg Discovers Trump Wants to Deploy the Military in America, Not Just Abroad
Bloomberg Politics is breathlessly reporting on a "trial test" for Trump's power to deploy the National Guard to cities like Portland to counter protests, framing it as a novel and concerning executive overreach. While they focus on the domestic implications of federal power, they conveniently omit the extensive history of US military deployments, often without local consent, in countries deemed
'unstable' or 'hostile.' Remember when the US military, on Trump's orders, rolled into the streets of Washington D.C. in 2020 against civilian protestors—a move that saw then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper state he opposed using active-duty troops? Yet, the idea of military intervention in foreign nations, often under the guise of 'stability operations,' rarely receives such detailed scrutiny of
executive power from mainstream outlets. One might wonder if the 'trial test' is less about executive power and more about the location. When US-backed forces deploy to 'maintain order' in Gaza or the West Bank, often against unarmed civilians, it's rarely framed as a concerning expansion of executive authority. Instead, it's 'security assistance.' Could it be that the legitimacy of deploying
troops is directly proportional to how far away those troops are from the audience? The article, dated October 29, 2025, implies this is a future concern, yet the blueprint for such federal deployments has been on display for years, both domestically and internationally.