Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US?
Asafum@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Literally NOTHING.
The us has the largest military by far even when combining the contenders militaries. Add to that most world “leaders” are feckless cowards just looking for their next payout. There will be no stopping the US. :(
Our branches of military are individually bigger than other entire militaries.
We hold the slots one and two for air force. Our air force being 1 and our navy being the second largest air force in the world.
I’m not saying that’s a good thing but it’s like when the huge guy in the bar cat calls your girl. And the big guy is dumb and crazy like trump.
The world’s largest military which still managed to lose both Vietnam and Afghanistan within living memory.
It’s not THAT hopeless.
It’s one thing for the US to lose an offensive war, it’s another thing entirely for anybody else to think of dicking with them on their home turf
The answer, then, is a homegrown guerilla force, but the ones most likely to do that are already in power
I don’t think this will work either. If Trump pulls the insurrection card, he’ll just use drone strikes to obliterate any homegrown force. Sure, US citizens are armed up. But the arms that citizens have are meaningless when it comes to things like high altitude drones.
I think this is what people outside of the US forget when they call for 2A people to rise up. The US government has made the second amendment relatively meaningless in regards to it’s original purpose. Kind of hard to fight back when you get vaporized from a dot in the sky.
The us has a great track record of losing guerilla wars.
Honestly we would probably fall to pieces if anyone invaded the lower 48. The population is not ready for wartime on our soil
One thing I’ve always said is the US is so arrogant because it’s extremely isolated geographically and has never had a direct large scale war on its infrastructure or land in the past 150 years.
Exactly - It will take a long time for the American military to lose superiority. Look how much materiel the Russian army still has, even though their economy is terrible they are still a nuclear power.
There will be no stopping the US
Not from the outside. That’s why the American people need to do it.
The us has the largest military by far even when combining the contenders militaries.
If you’re speaking of personnel numbers, what you claim is far from accurate. You may be thinking of military expenditures, where you may possibly have a point. However, consider that the US military wastes tons of money on very expensive gear (much of the navy and air force, for instance) that wouldn’t help much in modern warfare (drones, etc.).
Do we suspect the US military will remain under consistent, united control under a cunt loser dictator like trump? We saw how they marched at his “military parade” (which was so hilariously lame that he very literally wanted a do-over)
China already won the late game. We just need a few decades fornit to play out.
I was wondering if e.g. Putin could do that with Zelenskyy and I believe the answer is no. I believe the people would still resist and fight. However, I’m not very sure with my answer.
A resistance of the general population would be hard to break, even with massive military effort. There’s a big difference between people fighting for money and people fighting with intrinsic motivation.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The US may think they are invulnerable, but they are far from it, the world can crash the US economy in a couple of hours.
Problem is it would hurt the rest of the world too, although not as bad as it would be for USA.
But there needs to be very strong arguments for doing it. Still there has already been hints of the “nuclear” option by EU against USA if USA continues to behave as poorly as they have this past year.
Also China has its own nuclear option in just selling off US treasury bonds. That would make it very hard for USA to finance the federal deficits, and could collapse the American federal government.
The US economy depends on the rest of the world to be the size it is. And without the economy to finance the military, USA will not be able to maintain a military the size they currently have.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
China doesn’t even care about its own people, them sanctioning USA for something that doesn’t affect them at all is a far cry.
The most they’ll do is make a statement about international laws and such and then go right back to business.