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Comment by JumpinJack_Cash

3 days ago

It's the playbook already seen in Argentina, the Middle East and many other countries. But especially Argentina.

The military always has in the back of their mind the idea that they are above people, and this goes from the most deviant and incompetent soldier who still has a 6pack and fighting abilities and thinks all the guys in his small town are wussies all the way up to the highest ranked general who begrudgingly has to meet Senators and Representatives but still think they are nothing but wussies.

A common thread is that they think that society doesn't reward them with enough power for their valuable skills and instead it gives such power to undeserving people and their undeserving skills, for example a mayor who is able to cry on command to empathize with the population when some tragedy happens or the same mayor who got elected by being able to identify people's worries and lie that they'll fix them just to get power.

And if even the smallest doubt begins to enter the mind of the population , the doubt that yes maybe it could be better if the military ran things, the cold execution, the lack of emotion would bring us efficiency....it's already over.... the military dictatorship in effect already in place as there is no way to stop it after the seed of the doubt begins to emerge in the collective minds of the population.

If a malignant actor can convince the military that he can deliver the status in society that they really deserve they'll be willing to kill for that man. And if that malignant actor can also plant a small seed in the collective minds of the population....well get ready to kneel before your new dictator America

This isn't the military. It's worth pointing out our military is very different than those militaries.

  • Really? Why they accepted to execute the kidnapping of Maduro then? Or the droning made famous by Snowden, or Abu Graib or all the grim stuff that happened in the Middle East ever since 2001?

    The Military thinks it's better than everyone and as a personality type they want to be involved in unprecedented stuff to 'leave their mark on the world'

    A bad actor can seize such sentiment in a whim

    • Yes, really, and in a very important way specifically but in numerous ways.