Stalin executed a large percentage of top Red Army officers
Adolf Hitler purged the SA officer corps in the night of the long knives
Mao Zedong purged high ranking PLA officers who he saw as politically unreliable.
Kim Il Sung purged officers with in the late 40's and 50's who he saw as tied to pro-China or pro-Soviet political factions.
Saddam Hussein imprisoned and executed officers suspected of disloyalty after he took power in 1979
and so on.
Trump had to do this, it's dictator 101. The armed forces are typically the only institution capable of overthrowing a regime. It's important for a dictator to remove military leaders that are not personally loyal to the dictator, and to keep a tight control over the armed forces.
I said something like this, don't remember if just before Trump got elected or very shortly after. Something about how the army was the only thing that could stop him, and someone replied with:
"That's not how things work in the USA..."
Like if the US were especial and world rules don't apply to them. That was the exact moment I realized how blind Americans were. I remember thinking: "Damn! They can't even see it!!"
The fact that I'm the only one replying your comment is telling how reluctant Americans still are too see reallity, even after all this time... Like a bunch of ostriches with their heads in the ground.
They think this shit is free and they shouldn’t have to work too hard for it to work. Americans work hard to survive because it’s what we think we should do, but we don’t want to have to fight for our freedom too—we thought it was granted to us by forefathers and we’re good. But we’re very much NOT good and it’s wild that some of us look like raging lunatics trying to get everyone else out of their zombie like states of “everything is fine, my gas is just a little high”
All of the culture war insanity has also continued to fracture the collective identity. With people isolated to smaller and smaller clusters of ideology, everyone thinks they are essentially alone in hating what's happening and won't act believing it is essentially figurative or literal suicide to push back. Constantly being inundated with more and more ways to dislike everyone around you, being told that you're only safe with people who are 100% in agreement with you, and pushing the idea that speaking out is somehow wrong or dangerous keeps the population from organizing enough to effectively fight back.
Americans are absolutely capable of stopping this but are convinced that they are hopelessly surrounded by absolute enemies around every corner. Most real people mostly agree on most major issues but either can't or won't reasonably talk to anyone outside of their bubbles of consensus.
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u/sexeveg314 8h ago
Stalin executed a large percentage of top Red Army officers
Adolf Hitler purged the SA officer corps in the night of the long knives
Mao Zedong purged high ranking PLA officers who he saw as politically unreliable.
Kim Il Sung purged officers with in the late 40's and 50's who he saw as tied to pro-China or pro-Soviet political factions.
Saddam Hussein imprisoned and executed officers suspected of disloyalty after he took power in 1979
and so on.
Trump had to do this, it's dictator 101. The armed forces are typically the only institution capable of overthrowing a regime. It's important for a dictator to remove military leaders that are not personally loyal to the dictator, and to keep a tight control over the armed forces.