An interesting understanding of what's going on in the US by Ed Dowd. It looks more and more that beyond the trapping of "democracy", the mask is slowly slipping as Frank Zappa would have said. It must have felt the same in Rome 2,000 years ago when the Republic switched to the Empire. GPT-5 agrees that most people will say nothing.
⚡️Trump is building a wartime command economy without declaring war.
He’s
not trying to reform the defense sector. He’s preparing to subsume it.
Strip the optics. What he’s doing is establishing direct state control
over strategic capital flow using loyalty pressure, populist framing,
and fiscal levers.
He’s not negotiating with defense executives. He’s declaring them subordinate.
This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors:
•Energy will be next.
•AI after that.
•Healthcare eventually.
The
pattern is simple. Any industry touching sovereignty, logistics, or
frontier technology will be absorbed under mission-state logic. Private
firms will still hold the equity but the state will dictate the capital
structure, production cadence, and narrative frame.
Buybacks are forbidden. Dividends are conditional. Salaries are capped. Output is mandatory. Time is compressed.
It’s
a shift from incentive alignment to compliance enforcement. From
persuasion to control. From “make defense great again” to “you now work
for me.”
No modern president has dared cross this line because it
exposes how thin the veil of corporate independence actually is when
national purpose is invoked.
Trump just crossed it.
And
the deeper layer: this only works if he’s
confident the military, capital markets, and the public will comply.
That’s the real signal. He knows they will. Or he knows enough of them
will that the others won’t matter.
This is how American Caesarism starts.
Not with tanks in the streets.
With cash flow commands.
EDWARD DOWD
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