5/8/2022: Mark Esper, Crisis, Ballet in Exile
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What Is the Most Disturbing Thing That the President Is Ranting at at the Room?
No tat during the late spring of 20 20, it was not a foreign crisis, but the murder of george floyd in minneapolis that esper calls turning point in his time as secretary of defense. On the night of may 30 first, in washington, protests for racial justice were marred by rioters who set parts of washington ablaze. At a meeting the next morning, esper told us the commander in chief was on the verge of ordering ten thousand active duty troops into the streets of the capital. And i'm thinking, with weapons and bayonets,. And this would be horrible.
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