Bread and circuses used to distract from stuff like this but now it is the circus. They have done such a great job of building up a genre around military action and imperialism since the 90s. Every lib who spent the Obama years writing woke CIA fanfic about invading Libya has led to this. President TV, of course, is going to ramp it up and remove all subtlety. Why produce fictional Jack Ryans when you can just go invade and film it for Paramount+?
Bread and circuses used to distract from stuff like this but now it is the circus. They have done such a great job of building up a genre around military action and imperialism since the 90s. Every lib who spent the Obama years writing woke CIA fanfic about invading Libya has led to this. President TV, of course, is going to ramp it up and remove all subtlety. Why produce fictional Jack Ryans when you can just go invade and film it for Paramount+?