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===Marxist junta scenario===

===Marxist junta scenario===

On August 12, 2020 Marxist [[subversive]]s John Nagl and Paul Yingling, two veterans of U.S. military service, penned an open letter to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. [[Mark Milley]] chalk full of Democrat [[fake news]] talking points in support of the Marxist insurrection and advocating oath breaking.<ref>https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/08/12/john-nagl-and-paul-yingling-advocate-oath-breaking/</ref> Nagl and Yingling wrote:

On August 12, 2020 Marxist [[subversive]]s John Nagl and Paul Yingling, two veterans of U.S. military service, penned an open letter to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. [[Mark Milley]] chalk full of Democrat [[fake news]] talking points in support of the Marxist insurrection and advocating oath breaking.<ref>https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/08/12/john-nagl-and-paul-yingling-advocate-oath-breaking/</ref> Nagl and Yingling wrote:

[[File:Death-camps-trump-supporters.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The poster reads, "Deathcamps for Trump Supporters".<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/gop-rep-lee-zeldin-staffers-homes-and-cars-targeted-with-death-camps-for-trump-supporters-fliers/</ref>]]

[[File:Death-camps-trump-supporters.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The poster reads, "Deathcamps for Trump Supporters".<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/gop-rep-lee-zeldin-staffers-homes-and-cars-targeted-with-death-camps-for-trump-supporters-fliers/</ref>]]

{{quotebox-float|"America’s political and legal institutions have so atrophied that they are ill-prepared for this moment. Senate Republicans, already reduced to supplicant status, will remain silent and inert, as much to obscure their complicity as to retain their majority. The Democrat-led House of Representatives will certify the [[Electoral College]] results, which Mr. Trump will dismiss as fake news. The courts, flooded with cases from both Democrats and Mr. Trump’s legal team, will take months working through the docket, producing reasoned rulings that Trump will alternately appeal and ignore...<br>At this moment of Constitutional crisis, only two options remain. Under the first, U.S. military forces escort the former president from the White House grounds. Trump’s little green men, so intimidating to lightly armed federal law enforcement agents, step aside and fade away, realizing they would not constitute a good morning’s work for a brigade of the 82nd Airborne. Under the second, the U.S. military remains inert while the Constitution dies. The succession of government is determined by extralegal violence between Trump’s private army and street protesters; Black Lives Matter Plaza becomes Tahrir Square."<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic-open-letter-gen-milley/167625/</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|"America’s political and legal institutions have so atrophied that they are ill-prepared for this moment. Senate Republicans, already reduced to supplicant status, will remain silent and inert, as much to obscure their complicity as to retain their majority. The Democrat-led House of Representatives will certify the [[Electoral College]] results, which Mr. Trump will dismiss as fake news. The courts, flooded with cases from both Democrats and Mr. Trump’s legal team, will take months working through the docket, producing reasoned rulings that Trump will alternately appeal and ignore...<br>At this moment of Constitutional crisis, only two options remain. Under the first, U.S. military forces escort the former president from the White House grounds. Trump’s little green men, so intimidating to lightly armed federal law enforcement agents, step aside and fade away, realizing they would not constitute a good morning’s work for a brigade of the 82nd Airborne. Under the second, the U.S. military remains inert while the Constitution dies. The succession of government is determined by extralegal violence between Trump’s private army and street protesters; Black Lives Matter Plaza becomes Tahrir Square."<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic-open-letter-gen-milley/167625/</ref>}}

Gen. Milley rebuked the coup plotters saying,  

Gen. Milley rebuked the coup plotters saying, "In the event of a dispute over some aspects of the election, by law U.S. courts and the U.S. Congress are required to resolve any disputes, not the U.S. Military....I foresee no role for the U.S. Armed Forces in this process. ...I will not follow an unlawful order."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joint-chiefs-head-says-military-wont-have-role-resolving-2020-election</ref>

{{quotebox-float|"In the event of a dispute over some aspects of the election, by law U.S. courts and the U.S. Congress are required to resolve any disputes, not the U.S. Military....I foresee no role for the U.S. Armed Forces in this process. ...I will not follow an unlawful order."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joint-chiefs-head-says-military-wont-have-role-resolving-2020-election</ref>}}

 

On June 10, 2020 on the ''[[The Daily Show with Trevor Noah]]'' Democratic presidential nominee [[Joseph R. Biden]] implied that if [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]] officials nationwide [[Voter fraud|stuffed the ballot box]] to defeat incumbent [[President Donald Trump]],<ref>https://conservativedailypost.com/how-dems-plan-to-use-ballot-harvesting-to-steal-2020-election/</ref> Biden was already in [[collusion]] with disgruntled retired [[military]] officials to stage an illegal [[coup]] to remove President Trump from office before a contested election could be resolved.<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/biden-says-military-would-intervene-if-trump-refused-to-leave-wh/</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/dK3v8iUDTHc</ref><ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-victor-davis-hanson-podcast/episode-21-winding-the-coup-coup-clock/</ref> Biden said,

''Defense One'', which describes itself as "a portfolio brand of GovExec, whose market-leading services help contractors support government leaders and their missions," is in short one of numerous daily globalist newsletters for the [[administrative state]] and [[military-industrial complex]].  Thomas Crosbie of the Royal Danish Defence College’s Centre for Joint Operations wrote in ''Defense One'':

{{quotebox-float|"there are two competing visions of the military in the public sphere today. One is the orthodox view, steeped in the reassuring Huntingtonian principles of subordination and nonpartisan, apolitical professionalism. The other is the heterodox view — despised and scorned wherever it appears — that dispenses with the self-serving myth that the military (or indeed any million-person, trillion-dollar organization) can ever be apolitical. Nonpartisan, yes; professional, yes; but never apolitical.

 

The problem is that the first perspective cannot abide any debate on the role of the military in politics, since these thinkers believe there is no acceptable role. For them, any overt action by the military in the political arena is forbidden. For reasons that have never been clear to me, covert action by the military in the political arena — for example, community relations, industrial relations, congressional relations, or public relations — seems to be fine.

 

 

These two perspectives are not distributed equally. Only the first is taught at military colleges and debated in polite society. The second is '''hounded wherever it appears, dismissed as a form of crypto-fascism. From my perspective, however, the opposite is closer to the truth.'''

 

On one hand, the orthodox view to keep the military separate from politics has had a long-term corrosive effect, contributing to an ineffective, wasteful military that is never criticized or audited thoroughly enough, and must be left alone as an autonomous, honorable organization for so long as it forsakes any overt political behavior. On the other hand, that same view poses an immediate danger as it insists that the military roll over and accept whatever anti-democratic actions are undertaken by a president clearly intending to do what he can to break the Constitution.

 

 

In their open letter, Nagl and Yingling were asking the general to act if and only if an authoritarian coup has already taken place — and to do so strictly in accordance with his personal oath to the Constitution. We see the ascendency of the first perspective in the vitriol poured upon their argument. These otherwise respected figures are vilified as advocating a military take-over and mocked for suggesting that a staff officer (especially the chairman, who has no direct command authority over any troops) should somehow be involved. It is as though the authors were channeling Othello’s Iago, a Spartan dog if ever there was one, in their advice to Milley: “follow him, to serve your turn upon him.”

 

Nagl and Yingling’s critics are right in describing such military intervention as unlawful and outrageous, but they err in labeling it a military take-over and are wrong in assuring the public it won’t be preferable to the alternative.

 

'''A forced transfer of power from Trump to someone else is not a traditional coup but rather a ''pronunciamento''. Although unknown in American history, the type of political transition does occur globally."''' <ref>https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/six-scenarios-military-intervention-after-january-20/167777/</ref>}}

After the staged insurrection by the [[FBI]] at the [[U.S. Capitol building]] on January 6, 2021,<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-finds-no-evidence-trump-153636457.html</ref> Milley had the incentive "to act if and only if an authoritarian coup has already taken place" that Crosbie spoke of, and colluded with Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the coup against President Trump.  On January 8, 2021 Pelosi told House Democrats that she spoke with Milley to discuss President Trump and the nuclear codes.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/house-speaker-joint-chiefs-milley/index.html</ref>

===Foreign influence===

===Foreign influence===