What really happens on the streets of Los Angeles is completely disproportionate to the means taken by Donald Trump. At the weekend, the American president mobilized 2,000 Soldiers of the National Guard, and at the beginning of the week another 2,000 His secretary of defense Pete HegeSth ordered 700 maritime infantry soldiers to California. These are the elite troops of the American army, specialized in the most difficult combat missions and activities around the world.
It is demonstration of the US President's strength. It does not impress him that political opponents accuse him of provocation, and supporters from their own ranks – disproportion. Trump knows that From the protests in Los Angeles will come out victorious anyway.
If the police and the metropolis authorities manage to master the riots, Trump will assume their tactics. If the situation worse and forces the units he sent to intervene, he will “save” California and the whole nation before the repeat of the protests after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and even before the repeat of the 1992 riots, related to Rodney King [o jego sprawie zrobiło się głośno po tym, jak w 1991 r. został brutalnie pobity przez policjantów].
The moods of most US citizens confirm Trump's reason. 45 percent rejects demonstrations against deportations while 36 percent supports protests. 68 percent Republicans are in favor of the mobilization of Marines. The memories of plunder and arson after the murder of Floyd are still fresh.
City in flames
Protests in Los Angeles are also a platform for the “Make America Great Again” movement [Uczyńmy Amerykę znów wielką]which uses widespread dissatisfaction with local democratic authorities. For growing crime, degradation of cities, a massive crisis of homelessness and catastrophic forest fires, most of the Gavin Newsoma and the mayor of Karen Bass.
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“If I didn't send the army to Los Angeles three nights ago, it would once be a beautiful and wonderful city now in flames,” Trump said on Tuesday, thoroughly inscribed in this tone. The Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem said that Los Angeles “is not a city of immigrants, but a city of criminals.”
It is impossible to predict how the situation in the agglomeration of 13 million inhabitants will develop. One fatal sacrifice is enough for spontaneous and organized protests to intensify. In the coming days, demonstrations are planned throughout the United States that may exacerbate the situation.
More than California
In the meantime, Texas also announced the mobilization of the National Guard. “Texas National Guard will be arranged in various places in order to ensure peace and order,” wrote the Republican Governor Greg Abbott on X. Peace protests are legal, “the harness of people or destruction of property is illegal and results in arrest.”
One of the losers in Los Angeles is already sure. It is American state of law. Starting from the growing number of arrests, allegedly undocumented or actually undocumented immigrants who have no right to a reliable trial, to the unclear explanations of Trump from the weekend, why he sent the national guard at all.
Before the states or injured persons can challenge these actions, Trump's team will in many cases create the facts. The president's promise from the last Sunday that “we will have an army throughout the country”, goes far beyond California.
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