{"id":47982,"date":"2026-01-18T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=47982"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:38:08","slug":"red-alert-nearly-1500-active-duty-u-s-soldiers-on-standby-for-deployment-to-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=47982","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>RED ALERT! Nearly 1,500 active duty U.S. soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47983\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-18-at-7.33.24-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-18-at-7.33.24-AM.png 559w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-18-at-7.33.24-AM-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Soldiers are on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis, a US defence official has told CBS News, the BBC&#8217;s US partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The official said the 1,500 soldiers, currently in Alaska, are an option for US president Donald Trump if he decided to use active duty military personnel, as anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstrations continued in the city on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">No decision has yet been made on whether to deploy the soldiers from Alaska, the official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Minnesota officials have urged protesters to stay orderly and peaceful during demonstrations after an ICE agent\u00a0<a class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1jepdjy256o\" target=\"_self\">shot dead US citizen Renee Good earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c74v0pxg2nvo\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c74v0pxg2nvo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}