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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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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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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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This consequence would of course be that any later more competent, less embarrassing, more asthetic and gifted authoritarian will have free reign over that military.