This is dumb as hell. What army do they currently field? NYPD alone is 5 divisions worth of paramilitaries.https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1000745664102486016 …
NYPD isn't a good example of the left's military potential. It's a cushy racket and most involved have zero interest in high risk ventures. They aren't lockstep with Manhattan liberals either, most white working class New Yorkers are more to the right than you're aware.
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The entire point of my thread is that most counter insurgency is low risk by the military involved, or at minimum you have useful things for your low reliability troops to be doing.
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NYPD in particular empirically does what they're told as long as you don't threaten to hold individual officers responsible for fuckups. Disarm the populace? Sir yes sir.
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I suppose the bigger question is what is their range of operations. It's fair to assume they could hold nyc but what motivation would they have to march on washington? NYPD are in a strong bargaining position, threatening their pensions aint gonna cut it.
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"March on" is for militaries, not paramilitaries. Paras are for holding and suppressing, not seizing. Could they take red upstate NY State, or purge Staten Island? Certainly. There are other forces for seizing territory, but freeing those forces from occupation is valuable.
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suppose you're right then. nyc has a lot of disposable biotrash that would make good cannon fodder too. NYPD would gladly round them up for conscription.
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