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What happens when democracies use military force to occupy their own territory?

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:08:36
Publish Date: 2025-09-07 22:01:28
Description: Over the weekend, President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as a character from the war film “Apocalypse Now” and, in that same post, seemingly threatened “WAR” in Chicago; later, the president indicated that sending in troops would be to clean up cities, not to go to war. But weeks of talk of sending federal troops into Chicago has set the city on edge.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago who has studied political violence for 30 years, and who worries his city could be a powder keg.

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Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Henry Larson and Avery Keatley.

It was edited by Sarah Handel. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.

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