Trump Threatens Military over ICE Shooting, Forgetting His Own Border 'Peace'
The Financial Times highlights Donald Trump’s threat to deploy the military to Minnesota after an ICE agent shot a protester, framing it as a response to civil unrest. This conveniently omits the broader history of federal agents creating, and then 'solving,' problems at home. It's a classic strongman playbook: stoke division, then offer the iron fist as the solution, echoing his rhetoric during
the 2020 protests where federal agents, some unidentified, were deployed to cities like Portland, Oregon, escalating tensions rather than de-escalating them. We’re told the military maintains order, yet their deployment in domestic disputes often exacerbates them. (And let's not forget the previous administration’s actions at the southern border, where 'order' involved cages for children.) One
might wonder if the real objective is always 'peace,' or if it's merely a performance of power designed to rally a political base, creating a crisis narrative where none truly existed before federal intervention.