Just to add another pressure point on elected officials, this time at the state level. I'd encourage everyone to call your governors and attorney generals, to speak against any mobilization of National Guard units to theaters outside the US (as well as inside, as folk have been doing).
Two weeks before the attack on Venezuela, Vermont's Air National Guard with a thousand troops and all 20 of its F-35A stealth fighter fleet were ordered to the Caribbean. (Confirmation here <https://militarnyi.com/en/news/u-s-expands-f-35-deployment-near-venezuela-to-20-aircraft/> No indication of the possibility of their participation in an assault on a sovereign country without a declaration of war was given to Vermont elected officials.
Call and tell your own state's elected officials, not to support nor to remain silent if their Guard members are being shipped off to commit war crimes.
This is a great thing to demand. And a terrific example leveraging power at the state level to restrain MAGA… or calling the question on corporate Dems to commit to not collaborate with fascism.
Just to add another pressure point on elected officials, this time at the state level. I'd encourage everyone to call your governors and attorney generals, to speak against any mobilization of National Guard units to theaters outside the US (as well as inside, as folk have been doing).
Two weeks before the attack on Venezuela, Vermont's Air National Guard with a thousand troops and all 20 of its F-35A stealth fighter fleet were ordered to the Caribbean. (Confirmation here <https://militarnyi.com/en/news/u-s-expands-f-35-deployment-near-venezuela-to-20-aircraft/> No indication of the possibility of their participation in an assault on a sovereign country without a declaration of war was given to Vermont elected officials.
Call and tell your own state's elected officials, not to support nor to remain silent if their Guard members are being shipped off to commit war crimes.
This is a great thing to demand. And a terrific example leveraging power at the state level to restrain MAGA… or calling the question on corporate Dems to commit to not collaborate with fascism.