Lol let’s see what that does to morale. Also, all navies are sitting ducks, given marine drone advancements. Let’s just hope nobody is going to throw nukes
If humanity can manage to not use nukes has been the big question, right? Existing nuclear powers haven’t dared to start with them, but neither the USSR or the old US were fascist.
Conventionally, it’s not hopeless. Surface ships may or may not be survivable. Europe has a bigger population and similar GDP, and an actual reason to fight. Trump has a clear path to autocratic power right now, but that would be put a bit up in the air if there was a major war.
Trump has a clear path to autocratic power right now, but that would be put a bit up in the air if there was a major war.
It would be, at the same time, it is either way, and conflict and war is a strong enabler of dictators. Putin rose from a 2% popularity to absolute systematic power through (probably staged) terrorist attacks and conflict.
It was a different situation, and Trump is not Putin.
He’d still be dealing with 40% of the population who hates him in an organised way, and who no longer can pretend it’s all just on paper. At the same time, the military would have an incentive to not follow his lead, and some legal tradition behind it too.
Sure, he could seize on the crisis to entrench his power further, or something could go wrong. In peace there’s not much that could go wrong anymore.
Edit: Maybe Russia circa WWI would be a better parallel.
Lol let’s see what that does to morale. Also, all navies are sitting ducks, given marine drone advancements. Let’s just hope nobody is going to throw nukes
Edit: moral to morale
If humanity can manage to not use nukes has been the big question, right? Existing nuclear powers haven’t dared to start with them, but neither the USSR or the old US were fascist.
Conventionally, it’s not hopeless. Surface ships may or may not be survivable. Europe has a bigger population and similar GDP, and an actual reason to fight. Trump has a clear path to autocratic power right now, but that would be put a bit up in the air if there was a major war.
(Also it’s morale)
It would be, at the same time, it is either way, and conflict and war is a strong enabler of dictators. Putin rose from a 2% popularity to absolute systematic power through (probably staged) terrorist attacks and conflict.
It was a different situation, and Trump is not Putin.
He’d still be dealing with 40% of the population who hates him in an organised way, and who no longer can pretend it’s all just on paper. At the same time, the military would have an incentive to not follow his lead, and some legal tradition behind it too.
Sure, he could seize on the crisis to entrench his power further, or something could go wrong. In peace there’s not much that could go wrong anymore.
Edit: Maybe Russia circa WWI would be a better parallel.