{"id":316219,"date":"2025-10-03T06:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316219"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:34:48","slug":"trump-u-s-cities-will-serve-as-good-training-ground-for-department-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316219","title":{"rendered":"Trump: U.S. cities will serve as &#8216;good training ground&#8217; for Department of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter Oct 2, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <em>A heart-felt thank you to all of you who upgraded to a paid subscription over the last couple of days. I was sitting at 332 paid subs when I made the plea, hoping to get to 350 this week, and now I\u2019m at 349. That\u2019s 17 new paid subscribers in two days, so I have no doubt I will get one more and reach my goal of 350. I have the best most supportive readers and am thankful for every one of you! Those among the 15,000 free subscribers, I realize things are tight and you may not be able to afford to upgrade right now, but please help us out by sharing the articles with your friends and family. God bless.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Orwellian gaslighting has kicked into overdrive in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>We voted for the \u201cPeace President\u201d but we got the \u201cWar President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War, and ever since it seems all he wants to talk about is war.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>War on Venezuela is imminent, under the guise of drug interdiction.<\/li>\n<li>War with Russia is imminent because Trump has greenlighted Ukraine to launch U.S. long-range missiles deep into Russian territory. That\u2019s an act of war and Putin knows these strikes would be impossible without Western governments not only supplying the missiles but also the targeting data and intelligence. Each time a missile sails into Russia from Ukraine, it will be seen by the Russians as compliments of America and Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Another round of the Israel-Iran war with American backing of Israel also seems imminent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But here\u2019s the most disturbing one of all: President Trump warned the country\u2019s top ranking military officials Tuesday that they could be <strong>headed to \u201cwar\u201d with U.S. citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to overestimate the ramifications if Trump wins the legal battles taking shape that will try to prevent the federal government from using the military against its own people.<\/p>\n<p>Do we really want soldiers trained to kill foreign enemies to police American streets? There is a huge difference between military training and law enforcement training. We are about to find out if they can bridge the gap. All sorts of nightmarish risks hang in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>In his address to over 800 top military generals and admirals Tuesday, Trump said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhat they\u2019ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles \u2013 they\u2019re very unsafe places, and we\u2019re going to straighten them out one by one. That\u2019s a war, too. It\u2019s a war from within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Military commanders should use American cities as \u201ctraining grounds,\u201d the president went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2025\/10\/01\/trump-wants-use-us-cities-military-training-grounds-can-judges-stop-him.html\">reports <\/a><\/strong>that \u201cTrump\u2019s words provoked instant pushback. Oregon has already filed a legal challenge, and experts expressed concern that what the president described is against the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst, joined retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis in discussing the dangers of Trump deploying U.S. military forces into U.S. cities\u2026 \u201cI specifically explain the profound difference, based on personal experience, between a military mindset and a law enforcement mindset,\u201d Johnson said. They also discussed Tuesday\u2019s meeting in Quantico, Virginia, of 850 U.S. generals and admirals who were called to attend in person from all over the world. What was the real reason for this meeting?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xt6dHWr9eYs?si=2oYiypkWF6O5sKiU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow the military thinks about a problem is very different from how law enforcement thinks about a problem,\u201d Johnson pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the biggest difference: When police officers encounter resistance, they are trained to deescalate the situation. When the military encounters resistance, they are trained to escalate. \u201cYou don\u2019t say, hey, mister bad man, would you put your rifle down and let\u2019s talk?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military police units have at least received some training in law enforcement and how to deescalate, but that\u2019s not predominantly who Trump is sending to the cities.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson added, \u201cTrump in revealing that he thinks sending military troops whose job is to kill, destroy and dominate an opponent, that sending them into cities is great training? That has got to rank up there as one of the stupidest things he\u2019s ever said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth himself has said that \u201cwe\u2019re sent in to kill people and break stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not how municipal cops operate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a completely different mindset,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cAnd we demonstrated it (recently) in blowing up the three boats leaving Venezuela\u2026 Just because someone is doing something even illegal doesn\u2019t mean that you have the right to use force, to kill them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is also the risk of normalizing military troops and vehicles in American cities.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget about this inflammatory post Trump made to his Truth Social account last month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trump-Social-media-post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-316220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trump-Social-media-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"840\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trump-Social-media-post.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trump-Social-media-post-480x636.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 634px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Showing an AI-derived image of himself looking like the new sheriff in town with the city in flames in the background, while tying the scene to the newly minted Department of WAR, was meant for one thing and one thing only: to inflame the right-left divide in this country even more than it already is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking this into a military confrontation does run the risk of escaling this into something very dark and ugly,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe\u2019ve already lost several of our civil rights, particularly the right to privacy where the government can spy on us right and left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.substack.com\/subscribe\">Upgrade to paid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.substack.com\/p\/trump-us-cities-will-serve-as-good\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is America sleep-walking into tyranny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39267,"featured_media":40785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316221,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316219\/revisions\/316221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}