Images 15: To Infinity and Beyond!

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Not really, the US armed forces aside from the National Guard need a literal act of congress to deploy inside the US, and the Guard still need a declared emergency and orders from the civilian government. Such orders were delayed or interrupted along with police deployment by politics, which is bad, but acting without them to intervene in the situation would have been a military coup instead of a terrorist action and attempted coup, and could have caused a constitutional crisis. The general who took being asked by (I think?) the DC Mayor, "Why are there no Guardies here by now?" hours later as the necessary orders was stretching it in that regard.