How does someone like President Trump, President Putin or President Xi Jinping, run a country and/or a war if the entire civilian and military population is constrained and weakened before the war even starts?

In the past, the American President, for instance, could count upon a military backed by a highly capable civilian population. What if that civilian population effort simply disappears?

How, you ask, could that disappear and how could you cripple a country before a war even starts? This problem is not new, nor is it an imaginary one.

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