For those who haven't encountered the mall ninja archetype before, here is the prototype https://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
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Trump bragging about the amazing weapons and defenses securing him is in the same genre of larping. So is Fox news calling light wheeled APCs "tanks" or "skirmish line" where others use "scrimmage line." A general attempt to add a premium-mediocre tacticool gloss to everything.
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It may be sheer embarrassment and cringe reaction on the part of professional military that saves us from turning into a military state, rather than any high-minded idealism about serving the constitution rather than trump.
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Ie the senior commanders may ignore Mall Ninja Trump orders not because they're unconstitutional or immoral, but because they're ill-posed, incoherent, and downright embarrassing and they'd look like idiots and lose self-respect/other-nations-respect if they did
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But then I think of Catch-22 and military versions of comical ineptitude and am less hopeful
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Also a professional military that takes pride in its competence and is contemptuous of inept militarism in civilian leadership... that's its own kind of threat. That's why democracy never took root in Pakistan... the military kept mounting coups almost out of embarrassment.
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I just fell down the rabbit hole of the mall ninjas. 30 minutes later, my gut hurts from laughing, and tears are steaming down my face...
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