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Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 5 days agoThe US’s violence budget far exceeds any existing well regulated militia, let alone Cletus’ gun cabinet. The government can kill us from a great height from outside of visual range. That’s why it’s very very important to elect people you can trust, or have a revolution if the candidates are all trash. It’s a very good reason to not e elect a maniacal fucking moron. Oops.
That said, it’s not about being able to win a war against the government, it’s about making it more trouble than it’s worth.
The US’s violence budget far exceeds any existing well regulated militia, let alone Cletus’ gun cabinet.
And yet the US lost in Vietnam, despite dropping more tons of bombs on Vietnam alone than used in the entirety of WW2. Come on, the entire 20th century was a story of revolutionary groups inventing the science of guerilla warfare. Small poorly armed forces can take on nation states in the right condition. Did you just…forget…the entire last century of history?
“That said, it’s not about being able to win a war against the government, it’s about making it more trouble than it’s worth.”
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 days ago
All the tools in the toy box and the us still can not occupy even a small nation well (when was the last time they did so successfuly?). The fact that this is an occupation just has not had the starting incident yet.