So now it's a test of if Germany was lying about how much gas it's stockpiled as Putin won't back down.
If they aren't 100% on the level about their supply they're really screwed as they either have to give in to Russia which shows them as weak or let people freeze which might actually get Germans pissed enough to turn on their own establishment.
Never happened, and it never will. Valkyrie aside, even rank-and-file communists and Social Democrats were appalled by the assassination attempt on Hitler, which only empowered him further.
This is why people calling for political assassinations are idiots.
(Yes, I know you weren't talking about assassination, but I thought it was relevant.)
So now it's a test of if Germany was lying about how much gas it's stockpiled as Putin won't back down.
If they aren't 100% on the level about their supply they're really screwed as they either have to give in to Russia which shows them as weak or let people freeze which might actually get Germans pissed enough to turn on their own establishment.
Germans, turning on their own establishment?
Never happened, and it never will. Valkyrie aside, even rank-and-file communists and Social Democrats were appalled by the assassination attempt on Hitler, which only empowered him further.
This is why people calling for political assassinations are idiots.
(Yes, I know you weren't talking about assassination, but I thought it was relevant.)
Indeed. You need political mass murders of entire rooms of politicians. Saddam Hussein understood this.
That also only works if you are in power.
Excluded from power, it would not work. There is nothing more replaceable than a politician.
If politician becomes one of the most dangerous jobs, people will stop lining up for it.