• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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      Sorry mate, that’s on you. Your founding padres even told you that unless you water your tree of liberty you might not keep your republic (paraphrasing Jefferson and Franklin here).

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        These fuckers were supposedly accepting gunning down children every once in awhile because “guns are needed to resista tiranny”. Lmao.

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      If I’m not mistaken, the US spends more on military than the rest of NATO combined. How do you imagine a military engagement against the US would end for us?

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          It doesn’t quite feel right for other countries have to send their citizens to fight and die against a former ally just because American citizens can’t hold their government accountable.

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          That’s because Americans could not stomach killing enough innocent people to win the war like we had in previous wars. The US military could have depopulated Afghanistan if the citizens of the US would have permitted it.

          If an invading army is attacking America there’s little reason to believe the citizens wouldn’t be ok with killing every invader.

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            depopulate is a pretty weird way to say “genocide”….

            i, from my armchair, think it’s more about “hearts and minds”… as in, according to the us army guerilla warfare handbook, a guerilla army is impossible to defeat if they are well supported by the populace.

            they can always disappear into someone’s home, and can always get new supplies….
            well, unless you genocide the entire country….

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              depopulate is a pretty weird way to say “genocide”….

              Genocides suggest that people remain and/or suggests killing a single ethnic group. Depopulate means killing everyone. The choice of “depopulate” was intentional as I believe had the US military wanted to they had enough ordinance to kill literally everything in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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      We’re a bit busy protecting ourselves from the US.

      You Americans can fix your own damn problems.

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          Hint: Germans didn’t fix it by themselves.

          Of course, but the rest of the world didn’t take those actions until after the German military moved into several other countries. And that action was done in the defense of those other countries as much as it was to spank the Germans.

          Nobody is coming to the US to save the US from itself. Things will have to get a helluva lot worse before that happens.

          And it won’t be done to rescue the Americans, it will be intended to beat them into submission.

          Plus, the rest of the world remembers that the Americans didn’t help us in WW2 until the war finally came to their shores, after the rest of us had been fighting for 3 years.

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            Plus, the rest of the world remembers that the Americans didn’t help us in WW2 until the war finally came to their shores, after the rest of us had been fighting for 3 years.

            You might be surprised to find out some parts of Asia were fighting even earlier than that.

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        Also any army invading the USA is going to face a lot of casualties. Why would other nations volunteer to die to fix America’s decline?