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The latest episode of Mandalorian season 3 proves that the Empire was right! The new republic was so set on demilitarizing that they forgot to actually keep the galaxy secure. We explain why.
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Well, let me explain exactly why the new republic sucks. But first of all, I will say that maintaining an entire galactic government is really hard. Americans can;t even get our two parties to agree, could you imagine handling the wishes of trillions of trillions of people?
Teh high republic novels and comics detail how the Republic struggled to expand into the outer rim. They immediately face resistance from independent planets and vicious pirates called the Nihil. This is a big problem because, historically, the galactic republic did not maintain a military.
Doug: But then how do they maintain control of the bearcat? How do they keep the local systems in line?
Well, each planet has their own military force, like the naboo forces we saw in the phantom menace. But also, private companies like the trade federation also had their own private armies, like Blackwater mercenaries in real life.
Now what we have here is a recipe for constant galactic war. You could see planets have squabbles and disputes with one another and private planets conquering worlds because there is no strong military to enforce the peace.
And that’s why the jedi were integral to the structure of the republic. By the time of the clone wars, the jedi order basically became an extension of the republic, commanding armies and taking orders from the supreme chancellor.
I’m going to talk more about the lack of a jedi order a little later in the video, but for now I wanna talk about what the empire did right. Obviously, they were led by a demonic force that committed genocide and enslaved millions–but, the empre undesrtaood that–thought the Jedi–you need a strong military to enfocre galactic order.
The empire didn;t just prevent regional wars from erupting–they also caught space pirates, provided planetary security.
Doug: Planetary oppression, you mena.
Yes, yes. Thor's tactics were horrible, but as I’ll explain in this video, they did prove that the new republic was doomed to fail.
And by the way Doug, you just reminded me…
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Support, by the way, is what the new republic failed to provide for their citizens. Whereas the empire at last tried to create a sense of galactic unity. Enlisting people from across the galaxy into the military helped people to feel like they were part of the same government. Like how the US was able to heal some of the wounds fomr the civil war when northern and southern troops fought together against Spain in the 1890s.
And the emperor also maintained power by selling this idea of safety and security [rots , safe and secure]. And we see how that message resonated 15 years later among the coruscant elite [emperor’s duty to keep us safe].
Again, the empire, clearly evil. But from this episode of the Mandalorian, we see that the new republic threw out some of what worked about the empire, and kept a lot of what didn;t work.
New republic explained
So I will say, I was a big fan of the old expanded universe novels, which showed mon mothma and then leia becoming the leader of a prosperous new galactic government. But what we saw play out in the sequel trilogy is a lot more realistic and historically accurate. Revolutions rarely establish stable governments afterwards.
Doug: What about the United states?
Actually, after the American Revolution, the 13 colonies signed the Articles of Confederation, a loose agreement to help one another in case they were attacked. Each state had their own coin, trade laws, and there was no united government.
But they chose a decentralized government because they had just escaped the tyranny of the crown, so they did not want another king. This decentralized government failed–much like the confederate states of america, and it led to a stronger federal government established by the constitution. [Hj4WIn1r_xM] |