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> I don’t know how any sane person thinks a bunch of larpers - even if they themselves don’t see them as such - can defend themselves against a willing US mili

by tivert 3y ago

> I don’t know how any sane person thinks a bunch of larpers - even if they themselves don’t see them as such - can defend themselves against a willing US military… I know, that's why Afghanistan is a shining star of liberalism in the Central Asia. The Taliban never was able to defend itself from the willing US military and was defeated years ago.

PartiallyTyped 3y ago
Do you, in all honesty, think the US showed its full might against the taliban in an all out war? The war served its purpose and when it was no longer profitable enough they moved.
- tivert 3y ago
  > Do you, in all honesty, think the US showed its full might against the taliban in an all out war? No, the one thing the US government held back were nukes. Of course, I could see how those were off the table against a foreign country, but those concerns wouldn't apply to domestic use. The LARPers would stand no chance against H-bombs, which shows the truth of your original point. Small arms can't defend against a willing US military, because a willing US military will just nuke them.
  - PartiallyTyped 3y ago
    The US would infiltrate and dismantle any uprising before it could pose a threat to the local state. The sheer number of things that must go wrong for the US army to reach out to nukes is enormous.
    - tivert 3y ago
      > The US would infiltrate and dismantle any uprising before it could pose a threat to the local state. Yeah, I know. That's why the US basically has no organized crime at all, and that's why no uprising has ever been successful ever. Governments are scarily competent, the US government especially. They never lose, never make a mistake, are totally unified, and are always ten steps ahead of everyone. It's basically an army of real Jack Bauers and Jason Bournes.
dragonwriter 3y ago
It might have been, if it hadn't been for the fact that the US leadership at the time didn’t want to fight them at all, it wanted to fight Iraq, and when it turned out that it couldn’t use 9/11 direcrly as an excuse to do so it went to work directly on making that excuse so it could, producing a lingering disaster in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere instead of getting the job done in Afghanistan.

by tivert 3y ago

PartiallyTyped 3y ago

Do you, in all honesty, think the US showed its full might against the taliban in an all out war? The war served its purpose and when it was no longer profitable enough they moved.

tivert 3y ago
> Do you, in all honesty, think the US showed its full might against the taliban in an all out war? No, the one thing the US government held back were nukes. Of course, I could see how those were off the table against a foreign country, but those concerns wouldn't apply to domestic use. The LARPers would stand no chance against H-bombs, which shows the truth of your original point. Small arms can't defend against a willing US military, because a willing US military will just nuke them.
- PartiallyTyped 3y ago
  The US would infiltrate and dismantle any uprising before it could pose a threat to the local state. The sheer number of things that must go wrong for the US army to reach out to nukes is enormous.
  - tivert 3y ago
    > The US would infiltrate and dismantle any uprising before it could pose a threat to the local state. Yeah, I know. That's why the US basically has no organized crime at all, and that's why no uprising has ever been successful ever. Governments are scarily competent, the US government especially. They never lose, never make a mistake, are totally unified, and are always ten steps ahead of everyone. It's basically an army of real Jack Bauers and Jason Bournes.

dragonwriter 3y ago

It might have been, if it hadn't been for the fact that the US leadership at the time didn’t want to fight them at all, it wanted to fight Iraq, and when it turned out that it couldn’t use 9/11 direcrly as an excuse to do so it went to work directly on making that excuse so it could, producing a lingering disaster in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere instead of getting the job done in Afghanistan.