Incredibly high, near 100%. Historically, purging or downscaling the military's lower ranks creates MASSIVE societal instability. The pauperized soldiers stick around and tend yo flock to ANY banner that will make use of their skills. And this is *before* factoring in ideology.
At the siege of Osaka, Toyotomi Hideyori had tens of thousands of ronin soldiers holed up with him in Osaka castle, basically just detritus and castoffs from previous wars. You never *solve* the issue of unreliable troops by purging them. That's when the real trouble starts!
Another good example of a lower army purge is post-Napoleonic France. Not exactly a smashing success story, as those purged soldiers helped cause not one but TWO revolutions in the span of a few decades.
The most relevant case for Americans might be the purge of the Iraqi army, lock stock and barrel. This caused a massive shitshow of insurrection and chaos and basically made the US lose the war all on its own. Not exactly an example to emulate on American soil if you ask me!
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bruh if you want to solidify support around some project of basically stealing the 2024 election, there's no goddamn reason to ever go "uhhhh if the troops end up thinking 2024 is stolen there's a really good chance they just won't follow orders anymore"
There is no situation where you ever want to get the message out there that the military is catastrophically unreliable and won't be there to help you if Kamala Harris wins by 500 electors or whatever. First off, this is just demoralizing. Second, you're giving grunts ideas.
If Lockheed Martin were selling psionic clone troopers at a discount right now or whatever you could conceivably go "duh, of course this is just FUD, they're trying to get the pentagon to buy the new expensive clone troops". But there are no clone troopers here.
The gracious comrade Stalin ( @Stal_Apu ) sent me this article and I have to say that it is a doozy. Given that he and I have been writing about these issues for a bit, I'll give my own (political side, not military side) view of what's written.
First off, these people are not just random OpEd writers. These are retired flag rank officers (one brigadier general and two major generals). Second, what they write here is worth quite a few raised eyebrows. It's a pretty radical piece!
Put simply, the writers identify the lower ranks of the US armed services as being, not to beat around the bush here, *catastrophically* unreliable. They start by talking about the demographic makeup of the J6 protest, but that's not necessarily the biggest mic drop.
The incredibly anti-burkean idea that "culture" is somehow a vcr that you can program, rather than the result and sum total of a million different social processes, is going to destroy so many wannabe "counter-revolutionaries" in the years ahead.
It's a seductive idea, though. Partly because idealism is always seductive, but also because it lets you ignore fundamental questions about the "who" and "what" of your own coalition. People who think like this generally have no experience with retail politics.
The notion that somehow the "only" politics that is possible today is "middle class politics" speaks more to the makeup of various putative political "dissidents" today than anything else.
The year is 1872. After Swedish scientists discover trans-newtonian elements in Norrland, the new King Oscar II of Sweden reforms the Kalmar Union of old. This is followed by detonating many nuclear warheads over China and America, wiping out the anglo and sino plague.
The genocide of the Anglo and the Chinaman has left only about 550 million humans left on planet earth, but the good news is that the remaining humans are now poised to explore space as part of the glorious Scandinavian Empire.
The first order of business is to conduct a mineral survey of the solar system. His Royal Swedish Majesty's Astrogation Corps currently have three vessels available for this task: the Copernicus, the Linnaeus, and the Newton.
As Comrade Land rightly points out, the risk of this stuff for the baseline legitimacy of technocratic government is completely out of this world. I think this shows why as the data is becoming clear about the lack of efficacy for these vaccines, states are still doubling down.🧵
They can't actually afford to back down from a policy that is increasingly becoming nonsensical. Everyone needs to get vaccinated to stop the spread, but the spread isn't stopping, and suddenly you're an anti-vaxxer if you "merely" got the two shots and no boosters.
And now, even if you've got three shots, it looks like the lockdowns aren't actually meant to end, basically ever. But even as these policies are being put into action, the rates of infection are... not actually dropping? So what is the off-ramp to this?
Moose meat is so great. It's time for another NORDIC FOOD THREAD for you ignorant heathers. I am told moose are a thing in Canada so Canadians pay attention (except Canada isn't real and just a psyop so lol.)
In Sweden, the true heir to the lost civilization of Atlantis, there's a lot of moose and reindeer. And reindeer and moose are some mighty fine eating. Which is why even smaller grocery stores will have this stuff in the frozen foods section:
This is frozen strips of meat, brought to us thankful shoppers from the wild forests of Scandinavia. And with this stuff, you can make the #1 nordic fast food dish in the world, which is renskavsgryta. Like so: