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
Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US?
shaggyb@lemmy.world 5 days agoThe world’s largest military which still managed to lose both Vietnam and Afghanistan within living memory.
It’s not THAT hopeless.
chocrates@piefed.world 5 days ago
ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
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.
Dupelet@piefed.social 5 days ago
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
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The answer, then, is a homegrown guerilla force, but the ones most likely to do that are already in power
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 5 days ago
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.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You really think the US military would start killing their own on the command from the president?
From what my buddy in the US Army tells me there’s a lot of political maneouvering going on that basically circumvents a lot of shit that Elon’s stupid ass tried to force on them.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That was indeed what I meant, though I was being a bit facetious about the whole thing