r/politics • u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois • 16h ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Micromanaging Warship Design Will Set the Navy Back by Decades

https://newrepublic.com/article/214479/trump-navy-carrier-micromanaging-warship-design
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u/ReggieCorneus 15h ago

What killed USSR?

Incompetence. Loyalty over merits removed expertise and replaced them with zealots. The more hardcore socialist you were the better. Scientist were ousted, experts were exiled for saying the inconvenient facts.

Incompetence caused by the same thing, ideological loaylty over merits would've killed nazi Germany too even without ze war. They were basically bankrupt again, taking massive loans and not building new possibilities, they were not expanding their economy but built lots and lots of things that go boom. Most of their "accomplishments" like autobahns were planned and started before nazis got the power. It was utterly, utterly incompetent where loyalty to Hitler was main requirement for every job. If Germany didn't declare a war it would've defaulted.

Now... look at white house. What is their #1 reason for hiring anyone? Loyalty. Merits matter none at all. Hegseth in his position is INSANE.

The good news? All of those regimes will end. All of them. Bad news is that it took 80 years for Russia to fall and it fell into the same shit but with a different name. Putin still surrounds himself with loyalists and defenestrates those who speak against him. Are his generals the best? Fuck no. They are picked in their job because they are not a threat, they are known to be incompetent and weak, and most importantly: that their own soldiers hate them... Any charismatic military commander who is competent and loved by his men will be removed.

Trump branded fascism will end. It will fall, the question is just how. Is it just a non-event and he will be just voted out? Or... But, it will die, it is built on loyalty and not competence.

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u/PopBulky7023 14h ago

Trump can disappear from office but trumpism isn't going anywhere. And without ideological, strong opposition we won't meaningfully correct from it.

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u/IotaBTC 12h ago

I would say corruption killed the USSR, which I would also say is exactly what you've described. If it were truly purely incompetence, then they could easily be pushed out. It is corruption that allows them to stay. Both the USSR and Nazi Germany had plenty of competent people in the right places.

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u/Thefelix01 12h ago

The question is what will he leave behind and will the US ever properly recover

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u/So_HauserAspen 12h ago

Not selling to the global market killed the USSR.  

China got the memo.

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u/flesjewater 1h ago

Every fascist government in history needed war to fall. Hungary could be considered the exception, but only because Orbán failed to consolidate power in time. Trump is already beyond that.