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We could end the BS here in America by doing the same thing. Fear and the facade of a comfortable life are powerful things.
Seeing the fortification of the capitol between Jan 6 and inauguration I think that might not necessarily be the case if they would mobilize 20k troops and have the logistical support of USMIL plus whatever militarized defenses of those sorts of structures we haven't seen yet.
I don't think you could muster that many troops to basically shoot at their neighbors. And truthfully, even if they had 20K troops if even ¼ of the civilian population mobilized they would be outnumbered. I seriously think they would hesitate to use anything really heavy on citizens, if anything it would make them look worse than they already do and turn more folks against them. I think they would be more likely to invite the UN to come help and, well... I'll let you speculate from there.
They have heavy area denial microwave, sound, and light weapons that would give a strong defender's advantage and when you deploy 20k troops if 1 in 10 are willing to shoot their neighbor first, and a further 2 or 3 are willing to shoot back, then you have 2-8k troops on hand to defend a structure that has been reinforced and the doors essentially cannot be breached. For a single structure or group of structures within a couple square blocks, that's a massive number of troops. The real question is how many troops would AWOL, desert, or defect. They would absolutely invite the UN or hell even China as a security force.
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