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people keep on using the word "purge", they are going to get fired from their job, at worst.
they won't even receive a slap on the wrist fine for their crimes. and yet the news tries to make it sound like genocide.
Media.

I don't mind using it. They're just going to fire them in disgrace because that's the way it works in the present.
 
Personally, I'd rather we actually punish those who have committed crimes; instead of continuing to treat people of their status like they're above the law.
There will be scape goats but I don't see what you think will happen so the only justice will be celebrations at their natural cause of death unless something changes.
 
And so long as that remains the case, any so-called "purge" is little more than a placebo that will accomplish nothing in the long term.
That one is hard to say. I can agree leaving corrupt elements alone means they can keep on growing and festering to metamorphise to something truly terrible even as the stabilizing elements continues to grow and strengthen the institutions they own when such growth can easily be destroyed and hard to repair.
 
And so long as that remains the case, any so-called "purge" is little more than a placebo that will accomplish nothing in the long term.

You'd rather put these powerful peoples's backs to the wall? They'd fight you to the finish and probably do something very stupid in the process. Quietly and calmly neutralising them by taking their jobs is far cleaner and gets your point across anyway. Having your job taken away for bad behaviour or getting up to the gills in dogma is threat enough for any bureaucrat. And mass sackings spook the ones still on your payroll into line whilst encouraging the loyalists.

That and the vast majority of these bureaucrats probably haven't done much wrong aside from being incompetent fat cats. Sacking is punishment enough.
 
You'd rather put these powerful peoples's backs to the wall? They'd fight you to the finish and probably do something very stupid in the process. Quietly and calmly neutralising them by taking their jobs is far cleaner and gets your point across anyway. Having your job taken away for bad behaviour or getting up to the gills in dogma is threat enough for any bureaucrat. And mass sackings spook the ones still on your payroll into line whilst encouraging the loyalists.

That and the vast majority of these bureaucrats probably haven't done much wrong aside from being incompetent fat cats. Sacking is punishment enough.
They are doing stupid things right now because they correctly know that nothing bad will ever happen to them no matter what they do. Examples need to be made
 
Ehhh the US wasn’t supposed to have allies, the founders explicitly told us to separate ourselves from the old world lest we be destroyed.
Unfortunately ambitious men with dreams of turning the US into a global hegemony empire took charge and led us to doing more then trading with the Europe. I sometimes wonder if the world would have been better off if we stayed out of the World Wars entirely and just focused on the new world.
 
The united states doesn't have allies because it keeps on betraying them the moment a reelection occurs

The liberal world order has allies, or more accurately branches, in other occupied countries. But they are not the allies of the USA.

The conservicucks try to make allies for the nation, but the moment they lose an election the liberals betray those allies.
 
Unfortunately ambitious men with dreams of turning the US into a global hegemony empire took charge and led us to doing more then trading with the Europe. I sometimes wonder if the world would have been better off if we stayed out of the World Wars entirely and just focused on the new world.
The first one yes. Second one, hell no. That was a war that needed to be fought.
 
Unfortunately ambitious men with dreams of turning the US into a global hegemony empire took charge and led us to doing more then trading with the Europe. I sometimes wonder if the world would have been better off if we stayed out of the World Wars entirely and just focused on the new world.

There are key differences in the world from the time of the founders. When the USA was founded, the speed of sail, and dangers thereof, had bee more or less consistent (with slow marginal improvements) for 3-500 years.

Within eighty years, a single generous lifetime, the transit time for crossing the Atlantic changed from weeks to days. Within another thirty years, the reliability had drastically increased, and all of these things functionally caused the world to shrink.

By the time of WWII, aircraft were crossing the Atlantic in less than two days, and ten years later, less than a day was standard. By the sixties, missiles could cross the world in hours, rapid deployment forces could have brigades anywhere within 48 hours...

Staying completely out of foreign affairs simply is not possible anymore. Arguments can certainly be made that the amount of involvement could/should be sharply decreased, but staying out altogether is just this side of impossible.

It's also a recipe for national ruin, as with what happened to the Chinese after they went isolationist... I forget if it was in the 1400's or 1600's, and basically put their technological and social development in stasis, while Europe's dominance grew. Trade in both material and ideas matters.
 

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