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No idea what's coming out of this, but the US empire is running out of time. Every day China grows stronger and the US capability to restrain the world through lawfare and sanctions grows weaker. The hammer is increasingly the only tool left, but it has a shelf life too, as the US's enemies continue to develop their defensive capabilities. In a little over a week, Iran was able to land significant blows against 'Israel,' and Iran has only a fraction of the capabilities of China or Russia. They need to do something, and they need to do it soon. The question is what?
The article suggests they might focus inward, shifting their focus from China as a primary 'threat,' to domestic radicalism, but this would be a terminal mistake. For the empire to literally turn its guns inward and shoot itself in the foot at this moment of precarity would seal its doom. It would only accelerate the decline of the US's economic, technological, and cultural power, while granting a repressive to its enemies. Liberalism as we know it has already been defeated. The right holds more power now than they have in generations. They already have millions of cops to maintain order domestically, and there is no armed insurgency justifying an "all hands on deck" military response (let alone a single spec-ops unit) to speak of. There is absolutely nothing gain from doing this.
If they are "smart," this meeting is being held in preparation for a foreign intervention.
I dunno, feels like "Nazi counterattacks in 1944" type shit. Like it's only gonna get harder but even if you try now you have a 90+% chance of failure. The US could probably do a lot of damage, but at the cost of much of the navy and air force, and that's ignoring the chance of things going nuclear.
The civil unrest is real tho, i can't see how they could launch another foreign invasion without doing some local purging.
It's not a phenomenon you can purge. They might try, but it will go about as well as trying to make the dog shit smell go away by stomping on it over and over again.
They can have some local purging. As a treat.
Hopefully is the last gasp of a dying empire and we just break our toys ineffectually