You have no idea what our financial situations are. Whatever you think that we wouldn’t do, remember that there’s a lot of us out here.
It takes a particularly narcissistic individual to believe that whatever selfish action they would take is definitely the same action that everyone else in the world would take.
We have no idea how this would play out. Internal military use is right there in the coup playbook, and top military leaders know this and surely have privately considered it. Would they tell him to fuck off? Maybe. Whatever they would do, if it gets to that point, they’re betting their legacies and their lives on their choice.