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by scotty79 857 days ago
This dynamics is the underlying principle of every democracy. Only the sophistication of the civilian facade differs.

If you want to see how fast things show their true colors stop paying "your" soldiers. When it happens due to breakdown of government-nation relationship coup or military pacification of civilians is imminent.
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rightbyte 857 days ago
> ... every democracy ... If you want to see how fast things show their true colors stop paying "your" soldiers.

Laying off soldiers and officers have been quite common in democracies. It is not really a problem. I guess it is mainly a problem if there is social unrest to begin with and the layoffs are a spark and maybe not done in an orderly manor.

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scotty79 856 days ago
Laying off some soldiers is ok when done by soldiers.

The problem with social unrest is that government loses capability of collecting taxes and stops paying all soldiers and the military can't have that.

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