The USA has adopted "Comply or Die" as its motto.
Parere aut morere
Or something like that. I don't know of Google Translate can be trusted with the nuances of classical languages.
Domestic policy, foreign policy, it all boils down to this. And the masses cheer.Trump is doing it now. Biden did it. Obama did it. Bush did it. Clinton did it. Hell, we can go back at least to Nixon kicking off the modern "War on Drugs."
That may be true, but it certainly seems to be much less subtle than it used to be.