Interview last night with Gen. D. Hokanson where he states "65,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen that are on duty today".
As of Jan 4, there were 8 out of 10 carrier fleets returned to US stations.
Patriot missiles reportedly deployed to DC, and and EO Protecting The United States From Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems
You would need to be retarded at this point to thing this kind of force allocation is about protests. This is something else.
That's not an MDT, it's an agreement for using their bases for refueling and resupplying, for a total of zero MDTs signed by Mike Pumpheyo.
It's also about a prednisent who escalates rather than using diplomacy.
"creating tension", and fistfights. ooh the horror. I guess invading two countries, and bombing the shit out of two others is what non-aggressive countries do? (inb4 "but they were dicktaters, and trrsts")
It's also indisputable that it's completely normal for a country with no hot wars to have most of its fleet at home for Christmas. To assume that there is "something going on" is absurd.