• RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    The US has never really sacrificed in a war. They’ve never had any threat of invasion or hostility inside their borders. It’s charming that you think what the US has done in third world countries is war. Dropping troops half way across the planet to fight underdeveloped resource rich nations that never threaten you economically or militarily is not a war. The one time one of these conflicts came home, resulting in large scale unscheduled demolition in NYC, the country went apeshit and acted as if they were in their last moments, trashed their rights and freedoms and invoked article 5 - the only time in history - so that they could spend over a decade in Afghanistan and end up leaving after cashing in the blood of their young men and women to make oil companies and defense contractors rich.

    The corpulent unwashed masses in the US are lazy and addicted to their comforts. They’ve never had a war on their borders.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      The US has never really sacrificed in a war.

      Idk about that…

      Pretty much a joke that the American public sector is a trainwreck thanks to how much we’ve squandered invading overseas.

      Plenty of Americans have suffered and died to poverty, neglect, and the hideous environmental impact of the MIC, because so much of our economy is routed into immiserating others.

      • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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        18 hours ago

        Yes, this was the right response, and you are correct.

        I’m not claiming any ground here at all by the way. Canada has never suffered an invasion either.

        It’s very easy to be flippant about the scale of suffering in WW2. The German invasion of Russia, translated to the US, would have been an invasion along the entire east coast that pushed from NYC as far in as Kansas City.

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      18 hours ago

      They’ve never had any threat of invasion or hostility inside their borders

      Do you think a European army is going to pull a D-Day across an ocean controlled by a navy 10x larger than all their forces combined?

      The logistics of d-day and the following weeks were insane, and that was like 75 miles off allied coast protected by the 2 largest navies in the world.

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        17 hours ago

        Not what I’m suggesting.

        I am noting that the US has never had a war with a bordering country that looks and sounds like them.

        And I’m also pointing out that the US has never had a war with a country that can cripple their agriculture industry, sell off Tbonds and USD and crash their economy, nationalize their strategic assets and patents, and cut off power to the northeast. Then fight a war of attrition for a generation if needed.

        War has been something that most in the US only watch on Fox News.

        Finally, if the US did abandon its traditional allies, I suspect those former allies would be looking a lot more friendly with China, who would then be the main beneficiary to capitalize off of the conflict.

        You do realize that missiles can reach the US yes? And they don’t need to be nuclear? It does not need to be boots on the ground in an organized invasion to cause enormous pain.

        Do the citizens of the US really think they would be able to watch the world burn around them on Fox News and not feel any impacts?

        All this for a bloated demented conman who rapes kids. Unreal.