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The author of the post that Trump is the "most powerful man that ever lived" is probably correct. Think about it: the US has the largest military in the world, and can project power anywhere. Historically, while this power has been built up, in America the ability to wield it has been carefully constructed so that it has to go through several layers of responsibility before being used, and different parts of government can perform their own checks on that ability.
Then Trump comes along, and many of those checks and balances dissolve. Somehow, he has successfully aligned enough of our government to his agenda that he can launch a war (and lose it!) without being held responsible for the result.
That is Trump's superpower - the ability to do whatever he wants, with impunity. That's not supposed to happen in our modern society, but he figured out how. Perhaps the key is having no shame, so he can ask for things that no other politician would think is appropriate? But with that kind of power, he really is ruling like a king, with the largest military in history (and all those nukes) at his command. Who's gonna say "no" to him at this point? He got rid of everyone who might.
On the other hand how effective is the US military really? Its got a lot of fancy toys but sure did just fall flat on its face despite what should have been overwhelming advantages.
It's the big difference between grand strategy and tactics. You can win every single battle and still lose a war. Grand strategy comes from the top. If the mad emperor tells his troops to make war on the sea, is it really on the troops when they lose?
"War is a continuation of policy", so what happens when there is no policy? What would "winning" even have looked like?
I mean do you think that every person on all the weapons of war really wanted to win against Iran or were they just showing up for a paycheck because they didn't really believe in their orders. Like doing just enough to not get fired and everyone collectively being like yup we know it's bullshit and stupid but let's kill some kids I guess, I mean the computer told us to so it's not like we can get fired over it
I think you need to watch this