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Yeah but Drunky Smurf is a total coward
Vance and Hegseth arent, though...
Couch fucker is 100% a coward.
hegseth thinks he is a strong man but also seems competent enough to know that is not something you ever test unless you have to.
But yeah. This obviously has lots of parallels to every other dictator taking power because... it is a dictator taking power. But people very much underestimate just how big the US military is. I am under no illusions that the Thank You For Your Service crowd are going to do anything other than follow orders and send shots downrange into suburbia, but there are still a LOT of them and the generals are the most political of the bunch (in the sense they are aggressively "apolitical" outside of advancing their own careers)
Its similar to how, in a lot of ways, Russia probably actually is one of the least likely nuclear powers to just end it all on a whim. The short version being that they (at least in the past) require two high ranking officials to turn the proverbial keys. And the people who hold the other keys are the ones most likely to lead a coup against putin.
They are also ones that will absolutely, unavoidably, get informed if Putin wants to launch nuclear weapons. It's unlikely they will agree, so if Putin ever is to ask them to use their "keys", he will show himself as an utmost danger to their lives, and they will therefore organize Putin to die within the next 15 minutes or so. And if he manages to hide in a bunker, he will be completely isolated there and will de facto no longer be the POTRF.
Someone else will then take over.