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Relatedly, i really think they imagined they'd pull off a Gostomel and their entire comms strategy consisted of thumping their chests after everything's done. Not like... the whole world knowing what is happening even before the helos land.

i tried to look it up, but what do you mean by “Gostomel”?

Landing special forces in direct vicinity of the capital / head of state's current location, taking them out one way or another and then presenting it as an irrevocable fact of reality, one which nullifies any opposition to that fact. A reference to these events.

It's a reference to Hostomel Airport

I mean, they never actually deployed in Chicago. Judges blocked them every time. SCOTUS too in the end. Trump saying after the fact that the Guard was leaving was him trying to pretend the courts didn't force his hand.