• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    … The world has gone very wrong when this doesn’t even sound so unbelievable. I only see one issue:

    So far the US seems to have given up trying to make pretext for anything. Trump can do anything he wants and be worshipped for it.

    • mlg@lemmy.world
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      36 minutes ago

      He’d do it if he wants to restart the draft for troops on the ground.

      That being said, I don’t think it would acrually work that well and could easily backfire within the US. At the very least he would need heavy congressional support.

    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
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      7 hours ago

      He still has to manufacture consent, and blaming the brown people for random bombings is the classic way. It’s not just unbelievable, it will happen.