The Possibility of Caesar or Napoleon Rising From the US Military

In the United States specifically, you've got a political class that is largely incompetent placeholders who are there in the names of corporate interests. Their main interest is whatever they can take from this. And if the whole thing breaks apart, that's fine because up to not break apart would require undermining the profit engine, which is more important than anything. That's when you get what Marx called in the manifesto,. The common ruin of the contending classes, which is the end of a unsuccessful class war.