They’ve had decades of dehumanizing their fellow citizens and are eager to employ military tactics and authoritarian rule to a population they see as sheep.

Well, that IS the whole reason for having police in the first place.

You’re thinking of the Korean War. The best pilots the Vietnamese had was Vietnamese - and they were damn good, too.

Remember - they didn’t throw Martin Skhreli into rich-guy’s prison because he caused thousands of people to die by raising the prices on lifesaving medicines out of reach of poor folk… no, no, no, they threw him into rich guy’s prison because he embezzled some of his fellow rich parasites’ money.

The way it looks is the way it is.