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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 profitab

• 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.