[quote=@Darkspleen]
Hmm... Well a war between our two countries 20-30 years ago could have been part of what helped my fascists come into power. The short (and not fully in stone) history of my country is that the Humanity United (name subject to change) party started to rise in power around 30 years ago. This was, in part, in response to the crown granting xenos some rights, including partial citizenship. Around 10-20 years ago Humanity United had essentially taken control of the government away from the crown. Things have been going downhill from there as they have tried to spread their influence throughout the military and various planetary/system governments with varying degrees of success.
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They could have played the "Strong government to protect the nation" card, yeah. And now that my nation is out of its self-imposed isolation they could start clashing over the smaller planets/factions between them.

As a matter of fact, half of my first post is the State helping a coup in a random planet.