Is that the smell of someone being cooked?

  • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    If the US goes down, they won’t be able to NIMBY over South America. Those countries can rise to prominence on the world stage.

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, because the US military is just going to vanish if the government collapses.

      All those aircraft carriers, nuclear subs, and land based missiles will just leave.

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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        7 hours ago

        The US military will be too busy with power struggles to care about South America.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        6 hours ago

        They’ll likely be subdivided between costal states and be scrapped. A lot of that shit is non-viable to maintain if you aren’t the US, if memory serves right aircraft carriers are generally built in Maine for example kinda doubt South Carolina has the infrastructure to maintain one.

        Mind you that’s assuming a lot of things going a relatively specific way but I can’t imagine even a reduced federal government maintaining any of the fleets.