• _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      America didn’t win in Afghanistan, and you think it would win a war if the military was forced to turn their guns on friends and family?

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      But… they don’t have enough missles to kill even 1% of the population (no source) Unless you include nukes… So they don’t really matter if the resistance is large enough.

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      But rolling over is not an option. The military isn’t going to kill all the workers. The workers are more important than any other group. If the workers strike, the rich suffer.

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          Obviously. What do you think happens to the workers once they’re enslaved? The workers need to unite NOW, if they’re ever gonna have a chance to pull the rich and powerfull down into the mud.

          But what is your solution to the current issue then?

        • When the resistance in territories occupied by nazi germany and imperial japan killed a high ranking official of the occupying force, the occupiers would round up innocent people and shoot to kill them on the streets. “Reprisals” is what it’s called. But do you think the resistance should’ve given up? Surrender to nazi germany and imperial japan just to avoid the “reprisals”? No, because if they had done that, the whole world would be speaking german and japanese.

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      and with such vast power and influence… name the victories the US has had verses am insurgency on their own turf?

      and that’s considering untouchable industrial military complex and logistics pipeline, more better trained, and armed forces, unlimited money, and no real push back from the american populous.

      if one appeared within the US… it would be absolutely devastating to the military

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          since the 1770’s i know of two wars the US has won against an insurgency.

          the US has been in a LOT of wars though. and one of the things they learned was that bombs were not very effective, and the us would have a much worse time off it bombing their own cities. A-wall’s and desertions would go through the roof, they would be out gunned a thousand to one, with literally more guns then people. Isfulstructure they would rely on is vulnerable from every angle, the government would be prisoners in their own bunkers.

          it would be devestating if the us has an insurgency

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              For all of your sakes, I hope you’re right, but what is happening right now is literally every single right is being stripped away. Even the right to vote is in a thin line. Is it worth fighting if you’re no longer allowed to vote? If not, the american people are as spineless as I always thought they were.