What Just Happened: Unpacking Exec Order on National Emergency at the Southern Border<\/em><\/a><\/p>\nThis is an essential read!<\/p>\n
My take?\u00a0 My initial reaction to this is the same as it was the last time around (2017).\u00a0 It’s eyewash for Trump with his base and a useless waste of money and, more important, the attention of the military, which is spread thin as it is.<\/p>\n
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On his first day in office, one of the orders that Trump issued declared a national emergency at the borders.\u00a0 It was accompanied by an executive order to the Department of Defense to engage in planning for the use of the military at the southern border.\u00a0 This is a complicated issue, with many nuances. The best explanation I have seen about this topic is from Mark Nevitt, in the Just Security Blog.\u00a0 The piece is entitled What Just Happened: Unpacking Exec Order on National Emergency at the Southern Border This is an essential read! My take?\u00a0 My initial reaction to this is the same as it was the last time around (2017).\u00a0 It’s eyewash for Trump with his base and a useless waste of money and, more important, the attention of the military, which is spread thin as it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}