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Pax Americana and Team America World Police only works so long as the cop is willing to play by their own rules.

In some ways the critical event was the BLM protests. Faced with the question of "are police subject to the rule of law", the country comprehensively chose "no". Combined with the decades-long process of stacking the Supreme Court with partisan judges to overturn Roe v. Wade, this eroded rule of law really badly to the point that all this was able to happen. And now they're trying to export gunpoint extortion as an international norm.