Trump Finds His 'Hellhole' — on US Soil?
Mainstream media dutifully reports that a US federal court will weigh Trump’s proposed deployment of the National Guard to Chicago (as per Al Jazeera, Oct 9, 2025). The concern, we're told, is the legal framework. What’s consistently overlooked is that this isn't about mere logistics. This is the normalization of military force as a domestic policing tool, a playbook honed on foreign populations
now being considered for American cities. One might wonder where this same level of 'concern' was when federal agents were deployed without insignia to Portland in 2020. Or consider the stark contrast: the outrage over 'hellholes' abroad typically justifies massive military spending and foreign interventions, yet when an American city is labeled such, the solution is... more military. How many
times have we seen leaders condemn a city as a 'hellhole' only to then deploy heavily armed forces rather than addressing the structural issues of poverty and systemic neglect?