US military to remove 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Reuters

US military to remove 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles

By Reuters
July 15, 20256:19 PM EDT Updated 6 mins ago

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of half of the 4,000 National Guard troops who had been sent to Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel during a spate of protests last month, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the decision owed to the success of the mission.

"Thanks to our troops who stepped up to answer the call, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding," Parnell said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-remove-2000-national-guard-troops-los-angeles-2025-07-15/

[Lovie777]

1. Not a success..................

plus the backfiring continues against shithole and his evil administration as well as the fucked up republicans.

The hatred for these people is growing.

[sdfernando]

2. What lawlessness???

The only lawlessness I saw as done by ICE and other FEDERAL government agencies! Stupid gaslighting asshole!

[rampartd]

4. i know. but let them go

if they leave a hollow horse take it to the scrap metal yard and flatten it.

[lapfog_1]

8. can't let any of these lying bastards go

this time... we need to remember them... all of them... and have a crimes against humanity Nuremberg trial after this is all over.

I want to see inHoman pee his pants as they frog march him to the gallows. Or to Alligator Auschwitz to live out the remainder of his miserable life.

[Picaro]

3. Bullshit just dribbles out Sean Parnell's mouth

ALL the troops should removed from LA.

The lawlessness I saw was ICE attacking peaceful people.

Definitely not a success.

[BidenRocks]

5. The guard is being pulled

before we really hurt them.
Look at all the crying over an ICE motherfucker getting hit in the hand with a rock.

He'll live!

Mission success? We hate all you bastards even more.

[Hassler]

6. Another TACO for Don

[slightlv]

7. What lawlessness?

The only lawlessness I've seen has been on the part of the government, and I doubt seriously the National Guard did anything about them, since they're STILL kidnapping people off the street!

[Silent Type]

9. Glad to see they are moving out.

[tavernier]

10. I'm attending a conference in Long Beach in early August

and I was hoping for a protest I could attend, but found nothing on the internet.
Let me know if you hear of anything. I won’t have my posters with me but I’m sure I can improvise!

[AverageOldGuy]

11. Actually:

1. Was costing big $$$ in salary, fuel, food, etc.
2. Reports the troops were pissed off and grumbling about the shitty detail.
3. CA Gov Newsome was up to something that would have embarrassed Hogsbreath.

[ancianita]

13. Fintan O'Toole's essay, "Show of Force" in this week's NY Review of Books, is a hell of an essay that reveals

Trump's long term intent for the U.S. Military, and puts his withdrawal of the Nat'l Guard in clearer perspective:

" putting troops on the streets of Los Angeles is a training exercise for the army, a form of reorientation...
In his Fort Bragg speech, Trump invited the troops to see protesters in Los Angeles as invaders...

They’re fighting for us, they’re stopping an invasion just like you’d stop an invasion. The big difference is most of the time when you stop an invasion, they’re wearing a uniform. In many ways, it’s tougher when they’re not wearing a uniform because you don’t know exactly who they are

.
If the army doesn’t know exactly who “they” are, it has to be told.
Trump reminded the troops that their purpose is to spread fear: “For our adversaries, there is no greater fear than the United States Army.” Its job now is to spread that fear to an ununiformed and thus unknowable mass of internal enemies. Just as Trump transforms actual rebellion into the vague but omnipresent “danger of a rebellion,” he makes the invading army invisible, amorphous, and fluid.
Traditional military doctrine demands a clear understanding of the nature of the threat and the shape of the opposing forces.
Contrariwise, in the Trump doctrine the threat must be as nebulous as possible, and the opposing forces must be formless. Thus only the commander-in-chief can say at any given time what they are. The enemy the army must learn to face is one that he, and he alone, can conjure...

...In this light, it actually suits Trump’s purposes if his federalization of the National Guard is understood to be illegal. His deployment of troops in Los Angeles is intended to dissolve boundaries—between domestic disputes and foreign wars, between reality and performance, and above all between a law-bound democracy and arbitrary rule. Getting soldiers used to following illegal orders and to disregarding their “duty to disobey” is a big step toward autocracy...."

https://archive.ph/1VfK4

[Fiddlelady11]

14. What?

They had nothing to do.

[C Moon]

15. I believe that trump so badly wanted violence and death in Downtown Los Angeles. HA HA!

[twodogsbarking]

16. Were they staying at a Trump resort?

And we paid?

[Marthe48]

17. Our fight for our country is endless

but their war on the U.S., when it ends, won't end well for any of them.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. For a Nazi Fascist dick tater to succeed

Requires an Army of people. He needs the Army to enforce his edicts. He needs the Navy to bomb foreign powers into submission. He needs the Air Force to drop bombs on pockets of resistance in the US. The National Guard sand Police are just extensions of this military force and violence.

It is pedo Trump's military and police now. He thinks they are just extensions of his will. He will beat down resistance with violence. It is what all dick taters do. They make everyone submit to them. Any power that is not his power will be met with violence.

If the military does not submit to him, he will not get very far. If the police and ICE would stop carrying out his illegal orders he would be a useless old man crying in the wind.

I think we have seen that the military leadership is not too fond of him. The parade was a disaster and every day another military leader is coming out against him. But then pedo Trump always finds someone in leadership to corrupt as he does all the GOP.

But here's the thing pedo Trump is a one way street. He demands loyalty while not giving anything back. Has the military pay increased? He's actually got the GOP looking at cutting back on benefits and has already taken away a lot of VA services. Did the National Guard get bonus money for beating up on protesters? Do ICE agents get a little more money when they illegally kidnap people? Nope, nope and nope.

There is nothing in it for the average military person, cop or agent. His top mob bosses get money or a chance to steal it. They work out compensation plans for themselves in exchange for their submission to pedo Trump. But the average person in pedo Trump's army gets nothing except being nickeled and dimed to death and that includes his voters.

Sheesh, his voters didn't even get to see the Epstein list before pedo Trump started saying it was all a hoax. They get nothing...... always.