ICE to Provide Security To JD Vance, Marco Rubio At Milan Winter Olympics in 10 days

[oldhandle]

How does this even make sense? Isn't ICE, by definition, an organization that only has any purpose on American soil? What the hell?
 

 

[oldhandle]

Really, really hope Italians push back enough on this:
 

 

[oldhandle]

Seems no one really cares about this, but it's not a good precedent to start sending ICE agents around the damn world.

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[BlueOak]

ICE is the American president's paramilitary force. It doesn't matter what they call themselves, that's what they are, the republicans own military force.

However using them as bodyguards at a public event is idiotic with how badly trained most of them are. It'll also make them a target for anyone with a grievance, and so it's also idiotic that the Italians would allow it when 20 to 100 guys in suits or alternative military gear would do a better job.

Stupidity all around.

Edited 2 hours ago by BlueOak

[oldhandle]

Well as I've shown, tons of Italians are protesting it. I don't think you should blame Italians for this one.

[BlueOak]

19 minutes ago, oldhandle said:

Well as I've shown, tons of Italians are protesting it. I don't think you should blame Italians for this one.

I rarely blame the people in states. There is some collective blame for having a government that would tolerate idiocy, but in the grand scheme of things risking international incident to indulge a man-child so he can have his toy soldiers around him, and stroke some egos back home, isn't worthy of too much notice when running a country. However it does pose increased risk for the event as a result.