Great comment. I'm really concerned that the average American isn't taking this impending calamity seriously because they're completely unable to reason about

Great comment. I'm really concerned that the average American isn't taking this impending calamity seriously because they're completely unable to reason about a world where America doesn't have absolutely military supremacy due to decades of propaganda and the American identity being so tightly entwined with the American military mythos. Any time that I've raised this issue of unsufficient stockpiles and poor preparadness for a major conflict for about a year now on HN and the response is pretty poor and my comments are often downvoted and/or ignored.[0][1][2][3] There doesn't seem to be a way out of this without a substantial and undeniable US military loss that wakens people to the severely dysfunctional state of military stockpiles and planning, but with that said I'm highly skeptical that this incarnation of America can rise to the occasion like previous generations did in WW1 and WW2. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391816 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693330 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812177 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054414