Putin’s recent actions, and Trump’s, fit the usual pattern: bad leaders nearly always get worse. They get worse in four phases, each more ominous and compounding than the one before. The progression usually starts slowly — perceptible, perhaps, but unremarkable. Then it picks up steam. Finally, if leaders are left to their own devices, their bad behaviors metamorphose from insignificant to significant, and finally to malignant and malevolent.
I bet the US forces don’t follow him and just impose themselves in a nice little junta. Cut out the middleman. And then you have a civil war between the army and the marines or the national guard and the coasties or some bullshit.
Yeah. I don’t want to find out. I’d be fine playing a sim to simulate this but I don’t want to find out in real life.