23
submitted 3 days ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml
top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

A Fourth Reich rolling through the Americas is a terrifying prospect. First, because it means so much death at the hands of the North Atlantic war machine. Second, because it means massive balkanization in the gaps that aren't strategic for the war machine and that means a fuck ton of guerilla warfare, vigilantism, mini-warlords, and constant terror. But third, because it means the war machine will be sufficiently stretched that it makes logical sense for a coalition of global majority nations to actually launch attacks on Central America to split the fascist military and then subsequent attacks on the US West coast, and ultimately multiple invasion to shutdown command centers.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

The contradictions within the US wouldn't allow for a Blitzkrieg through Latin America, the military is struggling to recruit and there's tens of millions of people living here who have close family across the continents. Not just undocumented immigrants, but generations of immigrants of all documentation statuses. And they can all buy guns. There's no way this works.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

only the police might be scared of a civilian with a gun; there's absolutely no contest with the military, even as diminished as it seems right now.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every terrorist organization is just civilians with guns.

And those people with guns could shut society down. Good luck doing a Blitzkrieg when the factories are closed, the fields go unharvested, and the railroads stop. You're really underestimating how much unrest would be caused be the US going South to kill people's families.

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And Mexico won't just sit there and take it. The Mexican army is a modern, well equipped army and has plenty of combat experience within Mexico, what with having to fight the cartels with their CIA tactics and American made weapons. Mexico can also develop a nuclear weapon with ease but deliberately chooses not to as policy.

Not saying Mexico would recapture all the shit the US stole or that it wouldn't be a horrible blow to Mexico, but if people think it'd be the gulf war again they need to check what happened when the US invaded Afghanistan.

The US would lose its biggest trading partner and the BRICS sphere would likely immediately gain the second biggest manufacturing economy in all of America.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

How'd Afghanistan go?

this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
23 points (100.0% liked)

United States | News & Politics

7326 readers
184 users here now

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS