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=== Assistant: Yes — it cannot be resolved the same way Nazi Germany was, even if there were serious international condemnation and so… ===
Yes — it cannot be resolved the same way Nazi Germany was, even if there were serious international condemnation and some domestic support for removal. And the reason is not moral reluctance or lack of will; it’s structural impossibility.

Let me be precise and comparative.

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Nazi Germany:
* Had formally declared war on multiple states
* Was occupying foreign territory at scale
* Was committing mass atrocities that were undeniable and ongoing
* Had no nuclear weapons
* Was already being fought militarily by peer powers

The Allied invasion was continuation of an existing world war, not an intervention to remove a government.

By contrast, the U.S.:
* Is not in a declared total war against the world
* Has not been invaded or militarily defeated
* Retains global alliances and force projection
* Possesses a nuclear triad

There is no transition point from diplomacy to invasion that does not immediately trigger global catastrophe.

===== By 1944–45: =====
* Germany’s airspace was uncontested
* Its economy was shattered
* Its military command structure was collapsing
* Its population was already under siege conditions

Occupation followed defeat, not outrage.

No analogous defeat condition exists for the U.S. — nor could one occur without nuclear escalation.

===== The WWII Allies: =====
* Had existential motivation
* Were already mobilized
* Accepted tens of millions of casualties as unavoidable
* Had unified command structures

No modern coalition:
* is willing to absorb those losses,
* would survive the economic shock,
* or could coordinate militarily against the U.S.

Even states that might rhetorically support “removal” would defect immediately when faced with real costs.

===== In WWII: =====
* Resistance movements mattered after invasion
* External force determined outcomes

In a nuclear-armed democracy:
* External invasion delegitimizes internal opposition
* Even anti-government citizens rally against foreign force
* The military fractures unpredictably

Foreign invasion would strengthen, not weaken, authoritarian consolidation.

===== The UN system exists largely because WWII-style resolutions were catastrophic. =====

One of its core implicit rules is:

: 

Breaking that rule ends the international system itself.

That’s why even:
* Stalin’s USSR
* Mao’s China
* North Korea
* Apartheid South Africa

were isolated and pressured — not invaded for regime removal by the UN.

==== What happened to Nazi Germany is historically unique because of a convergence that no longer exists: ====
* total war
* non-nuclear adversaries
* mass mobilization acceptance
* collapsed sovereignty
* unconditional surrender norms

None of those conditions can be recreated safely in the modern U.S. context.

==== Not “it can’t happen because the U.S. is special,” but: ====

: 

So the option was deliberately removed from the menu.

==== Yes — even with serious international condemnation and meaningful domestic opposition, the WWII Germany model is not applicable, not scalable, and not survivable in this case. ====

Which means — and this is the hard part —
the burden of resolution rests entirely with internal, non-violent, legitimacy-based mechanisms, however weak they may feel.

There is no external reset button anymore.

If you want to continue, the next honest question is:

: 

That is the central political problem of the 21st century.