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   Ame (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 03:27:45 JST Ame

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   This is something that, to his credit, doesn't get brought up enough. J6 could very well have been something if things had gone a little differently. If you have a million true believers in the capitol, one fat security guard with a gun is not an obstacle.
   
   If the crowd hadn't been leaderless - if he hadn't been taken away (a palace coup? a limo driver preventing him from grabbing the wheel? we will probably never find out the real explanation.), it could very easily have been used to apply pressure. The regime was clearly scared out of its mind - enough to shut down the military, pull out of Afghanistan, and redouble its political purge at the expense of competence, even in the leadup to a major proxy war.