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Heavybell@lemmy.world 1 week agoI’m under the impression that no, the US does not have enough conventional weapons to do this. If he were to escalate to non-conventional weapons that would change things but I don’t want to think about how the rest of the world would react to the US carpet bombing an entire country with nukes…
vrek@programming.dev 1 week ago
I agree I’m just confused how us seems to spend so much on military yet lose every war. It’s like a jock spending 12 hrs a day in the gym and losing every boxing match against the local chess club.
Not to mention so much news that we “rescued” one airmam from a down helicopter. Great, now compare that to D-day or any battle in the US civil war…no contest. We are using so many resources for “war” rather right or wrong doesn’t matter, we do nothing but lose. I’d fire every officer in the military, you have an effective unlimited budget, you have millions of man hours at your disposal but consistently fail at every “war” since… Desert storm? Even that is questionable. Even before that have Vietnam… Lost… Korea… Didn’t actually lose but still didn’t win… Ww2 ok yeah we won with cooperation from most other countries.
US is a “super power” and spend more than the 9 countries in the top 10 of military spending but we always lose…wtf??
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Because winning an offensive war is much much harder than winning a defensive war. Nobody defends anything better than they defend their homeland. Same reason russia can’t win the war in Ukraine. That’s why the first gulf war in early 90s was won too. US was fighting to defend Kuwait from Iraqi invasion. Once the US forced Iraqi army back to their side of the border, they negotiate a ceasfire. They only fought the war defensively alongside Kuwaiti fighters in Kuwait.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think the issue is that winning long-term requires investing in the defeated country, like you guys did with Japan. Rather than just stopping bombing them and leaving them to fend for themselves, breeding resentment. Resentment is gonna happen regardless, of course, which is why the best move is to not start a war in the first place.