I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take, and the event brings a bunch of brown people and Euros to town. Why would they care if it succeeds? If anything making it fail is part of their deliberate campaign of chaos.
RE4 Leon is an operative trained to the highest level possible by the US government. Talented enough that he killed his own mentor after he became a superhuman.
Joel is a smuggler. Probably a very good one, like Han Solo, but still. He was picked as much out of desperation as he was for his reputation.
He's very particular about his appearance (and quick to denigrate the appearance of others). He probably spends a good deal of money. He just doesn't get good results for that money because he's never had the personal discipline to actually be healthy, and ya know, he's fucking 81. There's only so much a suit and bronzer can do.
He hates and cannot comprehend the idea of military service. He thinks it is far beneath him. I don't think he would want to be caught dead in a uniform.
He'll wear his same tailored suits that try their damnedest to straighten out his grotesque figure. He may wear some nonsense bauble on his lapel to signify that he's in charge but that's about it.
It's still the most overvalued stock on the US ticker and it's not even close.
Even in the most charitable reading of the future, Tesla chooses a responsible leader, successfully course-corrects, and becomes "just a car company." The techbro futurist hype goes away, and the value tanks back to reality.
Likely worse armor than MBTs, a worse gun than MBTs. It was designed for combined arms, which we aren't seeing a lot of anymore. Probably quite vulnerable to FPVs. I don't think they'd want them.
"Activist/volunteer" makes it sound like he's distributing medicine or rescuing pets.
He's building drones to be used as weapons for the Ukrainian military.
To be honest he is a legitimate military target just like a munitions factory on either side. This is actually an improvement over the usual Russian barbarism.
I am glad he is okay and can keep helping the cause but the framing seems almost disingenuous.
They expect you to die of starvation, disease, and infighting. If you choose to lunge at them, they hope to have a network of automated weapons to drop the god particle on your peasant ass.
Once they no longer need your labor, you are an externality to them. A cost to be cut.
Labeling your vehicles or wearing uniforms seems ill-advised, since the regime is chomping at the bit to imprison people who aid and abet immigrants. Do your work as incognito as possible.
Modern warfighting is outrageously expensive. Guided munitions can cost hundreds of thousands each. Armored vehicles cost millions. Combat aircraft, tens of millions. And it continues to cost tons of money just to keep them in a bunker ready to go.
They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
There is a reason they're all too happy to keep letting you and me indirectly fund their military aspirations through taxes.
The billionaires have thus far been too cheap to amass private armies to directly enforce their own will. Why, when you can lobby Congress for the price of a used Hyundai Sonata to get the Army to do what you want?
The government holds the power of violence and Trump holds the power of the government. The billionaires will be reminded of that if they get out of line. Coincidentally, this is the arrangement of modern Russia.
I was always amused that "Sith" translated into "West". Pretty on the nose.