[ben_w]

> Sadly the US still has a lot of nukes and aircraft carriers ready to project power over its rebelling subjects and partners.

So does the UK.

Not enough to take back the old colonies and demand interest payments for the tea, but enough to make it a bad idea for anyone to try that.

> I don’t expect the military to start refusing orders just because the president became a corrupt tyrant through legal means.

I expect almost all militaty personel to obey almost all orders, even when they're expressly unlawful… but not all: Vietnam had both the My Lai massacre and the coining of "fragging" due to soldiers throwing fragmentation grenades into the tents of their own officers.