After 2020, the US isn't much better than a hopped up, nuclear armed banana republic.
I am absolutely worried that the political winds that allowed the Biden Admin to become a thing are not nearly as worried about a Red Wave as many here like to tell each other.
I am very concerned that a Woke Pentagon, State Dept, and White House would be little different than what Putin has forced on Russia if they are given a war and are able to secure more power and military force. They rigged an election once, they will do it again, and a war would make it easier for them to do so.
And unlike some I know better than to think the military can be changed from the inside out anymore, or be considered a non-political entity. It is it's own political branch and party to a large degree, with a polite fiction of political neutrality maintained for PR purposes.
We might be the least worst banana republic, but we are no longer the people who can claim moral high ground over a lot of rather shady electoral systems we usually associate with Africa and South America.
Which means it is necessary to start viewing US armed forces as potentially being willing to follow their paymasters more than the Constitution, if the current political climate keeps up.
You have completely missed my point. Banana republics never have the kind of armies you are fearing here. Especially those not explicitly ruled by a military junta.
Some have a small military (Belarus). Some have a large one (North Korea). But universally the military is made mostly of conscripts who don't want to be there, led by more or less loyal, probably corrupt, competence optional officers.
Its when you start to see odd police, not-police, totally not-secret-police organizations with weird hiring requirements that you should start to worry. That's who does most of the dirty work in such countries.
Why don't they create a quality military despite usually wanting to make a lot of use of theirs?
The thing is, a well organized, competent and motivated military merely by existing is, to such banana republic governments, a fairly unacceptable risk that the leadership of such military might one day decide that the military is run better than the rest of the country, and as such, they might get the idea that they could do the job of ruling the country better...
And of all people in the banana republic they would have the firepower to make the national gendermerie, revolutionary guard, secret police and whatever else does the dirty work normally think twice about trying to stop them.
