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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:

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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.