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What a poor quality comment > How could the US military respond effectively to all of those at once? 1st, why does it have to be able to "respond" anywhere in
by CyanBird 6y ago
What a poor quality comment
> How could the US military respond effectively to all of those at once?
1st, why does it have to be able to "respond" anywhere in the world, this is not a capability any other nation has, all nations armies are inherently defensive
2nd, Russia has a Gdp lower than Italy with an ever decreasing military age population. They are not the Red Army and jingoistic toybox wanna be Internet Generals ought stop concern trolling they are
3rd, Spheres of influence are the natural state of Geopolitics, tell me, why is the unipolar hegemonic power policing bilateral relations between overseas sovereign nation states? What legitimacy does it invoke to do this? Other than "might makes right" which International Relations has thanks to rationalism been moving away of for the last 300 years
- randomopining 6y ago1. Demonstrably false. All of those nations I listed have huge offensive capabilities as well as plans. 2. Russia’s military is much better equipped than Italy’s, so pure GDP numbers probably don’t matter 100%. 3. US generally enforces international law, and the world has never risen to this level of stability in the past few hundred years. Almost all parties have benefitted. China hugely. You’re just assuming that this stability can exist in a world of autocratic ethnostates that have no hard rules imposed? Your comment is clearly naive and unread.