Stan, the US pushed missiles right up to Soviet borders, threatening as it is doing now against its pledges with NATO not to. Soviet tit-for-tat sent Migs and missiles to Cuba, the other way around. The tinder-point was right off your East Coast, wet down by Soviet withdrawing missiles and secret-kept-from-Americans for years that the stand-down involved US taking its missiles out of Turkey.
On the point of ruling by fiat, Americans currently disgusted with their governance made a successful campaign to get rid of all the unrepresentative apparatus in Washington, to drain the swamp, to start all over again with their declared wrecker of no experience in public office, the military, trade or foreign affairs, chancing rule by continuous fiat they voted to change. Canada's last federal election was in part against one-man rule. We'll wait and see, too.
