“We could not win a world war as we stand today…. flame away
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No flaming here——I agree.
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We couldn’t win a world war as things stood at the outset of WW2 either.
The problem is the next WW is likely to begin and end in a natter of days or weeks.
I’m sure China plans to defeat us conventionally and to destroy our homeland if we resist thereafter.
We not only could win a world war, we could beat the whole world I do believe.
In US vs World, US closes down the oceans to commerce. The resultant economic disruption, particularly food, removes close to half the players in a few weeks to months.
“No flaming here——I agree.”
We have our own peacenik surrender monkeys and they take power potentially every four to eight years. They get us into wars, like Wilson and FDR. But they have evolved into balding hippies who start stuff, like Libya, or bomb aspirin factories for political cover. The party no longer has intentions of doing the hard, unpopular work of actually winning. Instead they fight feel-good pseudo wars like the war on poverty or the war on drugs. They lose those too, as winning would entail unpopular things like punishing the users instead of spending lots and lots of money with their cronies to buy equipment and arm their own private (federal agency) armies.