Maybe they'll encourage plunder like the good old days (the 1300s).
Carmakazi
Be ready for a significantly shorter experience than RE2make.
They had to begrudgingly push out the New Deal because they knew that a violent socialist revolution where the owners get strung up from their own chandeliers was the probable alternative.
Now they probably think modern security and propaganda will prevent all that, or they're just ignorant, shortsighted, and greedy, and they haven't really considered the consequences.
Declaring war is a boring, formal process that acknowledges authority other than himself, of course he doesn't want to do it. Why do all of that when he already has the thrill of ordering the deaths of random civilians and having the footage streamed live to him while he scarfs down a McDouble? If he wants to send in a Marine division he'll just say go do it, who's going to stop him?
Still very very rare compared to the 8,000,000,000 people on the planet, or whatever the number is at now.
Of course one is too many yadda yadda