Military is a little too powerful when then can willie nillie change leaders. Egypt like the rest of the Muslim world is not in a desirable state. All this tells me is that no matter who is “elected” only the military really has any power
Military is a little too powerful when then can willie nillie change leaders. Egypt like the rest of the Muslim world is not in a desirable state. All this tells me is that no matter who is “elected” only the military really has any power
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You really are wise. When you have the tanks, jets, semi automatic rifles you are in charge. The military in Egypt is not non profit. They control a big chunk of construction and other industries. With the 1.5 Billion in aid we send them. It’s all about the money and control.
It is not the military that has the power, it is their guns. So who holds the real power in the US ?
Yup. Things like this happened in South America pretty often a few decades ago. When the populace elected communist puppets, the army was usually the last resort to depose them without a flat out civil war. You could even go back to the Roman empire for examples of that.
In the US, it is supposed to be different, because the armed citizenry, comprising the militia, should be the counterbalance to any tyrant that slips through. Too bad wannabe tyrants have been eroding the effectiveness of said militia for over a hundred years. We may still be armed, but we lack any sort of organization that would be conducive to flexing our might. So, it may turn out that we are beholden to the standing army after all, just like everyone else.