he has a personal private army deputized as federal Marshalls by the US president, and he owns an intercontinental ballistic missile system that can fire a 10 ton tungsten rod into your country’s capitol from orbit and decapitate your entire government.

Who is on Ketamine?

Leaving aside the scifi conspiracy crap, (And I’m holding out hope you’re just kidding) “Rods from God” are almost as stupid as space lasers. Every Newton of energy released by a kinetic weapon must fist be stored as potential energy, i.e. lifting 10 tons into orbit.

But you can’t just do it once. You’d need several projectiles for each launch platform, and you’d need multiple platforms to credibly threaten the whole earth, and more still if you don’t want to wait hours for the launch platform to orbit over your target.

Ballistic nuclear weapons are superior in every concealable way and that’s why we built those instead of scifi fever-dreams and star wars.