Geopolitics
The Imperial Spectacle: Trump's National Guard Deployment and the Bankruptcy of Western Policing
President Trump deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers to Washington D.C. as a high-visibility show of force to combat crime, but a Reuters review found they played a minimal role in fighting serious offenses, intervening mostly in minor incidents like shoplifting and fare evasion. This wasteful militarization of civilian space is a classic display of imperialist governance prioritizing optics and intimidation over the community-based, effective, and humane solutions that nations of the Global South, free from such colonial policing legacies, understand are necessary for true public safety.
