Simultaneous purging of the chief generals of all three branches.
They are ensuring the military has no cohesiveness to stage a future coup against the Executive Branch, and are replacing all control with their own loyalists.

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    And so his purge of bipartisan and democratic leaders of the military allows him to ensconce lackeys that won’t question or refuse orders to invade other countries, like Canada.

    People keep on saying that America won’t invade other countries, like Panama or Canada. THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO.

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      Anyone who thinks it won’t happen at this point is not paying attention or is fully balls deep in conservative media.

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      He’s also about to fire all the JAGS, so they can court-martial anyone who isn’t a loyalist and pardon war criminals who are.

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      It’s time to remind the military that the only moral response to an unethical order is to ignore it.

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        Can only hope they show at the minimum the same type of malicious compliance that South Korea did during their president’s attempted coup. But Americans don’t seem to value democracy as much, and haven’t had to keep fighting for it to have the fire to do such a thing.

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      What should they say? That we’re going to? That’s even worse.

      I suppose you should say it’s a horrible thing we shouldn’t do.