I don't think this gives sufficient credence to the fact that most of the players who were relevant in establishing the current order are a decade at most from biting it (Kissinger, the immortal ghoul, excepted).
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I'll make you a bet.
Year from now, unless there's another major war (not just mission creep for the drone program, but troop deployments, sieges etc.), AOC is the most popular politician in the US.
Sheer tech acceleration in action.
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It's not about the bench as much as the state of play.
AOC is not remotely close to being the only threat to the established order. How many pieces do you need to take off the board before attrition kicks inc? A lot.
How many before someone else scores? Well, a lot fewer.
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You can keep putting up players, but if you're losing more plays than you're winning pretty soon it stops mattering, unless you can wipe the opposition entirely.
To be fair, they did that in the cold war. Not sure they could do it today.
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My exact point is that you need a spook establishment capable of actually controlling who can or can't be a candidate, or at least what they can or can't do.
Trump is being subverted at every turn, but I'm not sure that the way he's being subverted evinces a capable machine...
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Korean rapprochement suggests otherwise.
Extensive coverage of anti-war candidates suggests otherwise.
Having to deploy Bolton as a veto piece suggests otherwise.
UAMF and Patriot Act were proactive ops. Does this look like a proactive op? If it is, it isn't run by the same ppl.
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Used to be you could dismiss anti-war stances as wingnut and have someone instantly disappeared from the limelight.
Having to shout it from the rooftops and deploy God knows how many active assets (hello David Frum etcetera) don't suggest SNAFU. It suggest FUBAR.
All just IMO.
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It's funny to me because Poland is just about as deranged as the US, but Poles are extremely personally interventionist. They'll interfere with anything.
Blame the wrong actors, too, but that's a much more understandable mistake.