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I mean I'm not sure how a collision would have stopped or even delayed regime change in Venezuela. The AmeriKKKan government barely even has to manufacture consent anymore for their atrocities.
Like this year started off with the deaths of 64 innocent people in AmeriKKKan airspace, mostly USian citizens, due to military incompetence, and we've basically forgotten about it. USians clearly don't care whenever the military is the cause. Or basically ever unless it fucks someone personally.
Are you familiar with the recent elections? If anything, I'd think watching Democrats win in former Trump strongholds, as they did in basically every election this year, would be evidence to the contrary. Yes, Democrats are largely warmongers too, but that they ran the table against his handpicked candidates shows a clear repudiation of his policies and governance.
Donald's misadventures in Venezuela resulting in the deaths of Americans, on an American airliner, for no good reason, would have a profoundly negative effect on his intentions toward warmongering.
One of the "benefits" of war is that the Republican trifecta can use it to cancel elections.
They're not gonna cancel elections. They're just gonna make it so only rich white people can vote and only fascists can run.
That's just more of the same. They already disenfranchise people who aren't rich or white, they already limit who can run.
If they don't actually drastically change their strategy for the midterms, they're fucked. They have to know this.
War gives them that opportunity.
Yeah my comment is more about the procedure than the effect. Like I don't think there's gonna be an official proclamation like "Elections are hereby cancelled", they're just gonna come up with enough ways to "cancel" undesirable ballots that it'll be like the election never happened. I.e., more of what has been done before, but done harder. IMO, going this route would be harder for people to call out because it's systemic and "quiet", and USians have zero systems thinking skills overall.
I think they'll say the quiet part out loud. They can't seem to help themselves.