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Well it’s permanent until the systemic core problems have been fixed. However that would take rewriting major parts of the United States Constitution. Not holding my breath for it to happen in any near decades. Unless there is revolt/civil war level event. Those usually lead to constitutional changes pretty quickly.

Depends on your definition of con-man. He has been arrested and charged for tax evasion. As far as I know he isn’t “conman” as such as having conned/frauded say viewers or so on out of money.

However given a century of military history, anyone signing up for US military service ought to expect high probability of dying in a very stupid war far away from home.

“Our client dictator is getting little too uppity” or one persons ego, stupid both.