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erronis

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4. The playbook for this regime was to decapitate anyone who had authority that wasn't a trumpist.

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:50 PM

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It was amazing how quickly all the top levels of the military and other departments were removed.

No way trump, even under Miller's command, could have conceived of this and effectuated it so quickly. I'm no historian but I'll be there are some parallels with the Bolsheviks.

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