While grabbers obviously won't engage in an honest debate, most conditioned NPCs don't realize that the price of modern weapons preclude their use in shenanigans.
If I become super successful I would happily buy and maintain one shiny, well-oiled (and track-tensioned) Abrams, with some local buddies as the scratch crew, and we'd join up with whatever other mechanized bros were around a few times a year for exercises. Nobody would be harmed (except anyone stupid enough to fuck with the United States), industries would benefit, and a good time would be had by all.
You don't commit crimes in a ten million dollar warfighting machine.
Funny how all the tanks and fighter jets in the world couldn't beat a bunch of vietnamese rice farmers and illiterate goat herders hiding in caves with nothing more than rusty AKs and pickup trucks. It's almost like military force multiplication equipment is primarily meant for fighting other nations instead of a guerrilla fighting force.
I think it’s less that we couldn’t and more that our leaders weren’t willing to commit to the kind of overwhelming use of force that a war declaration brings. Accepting high levels of civilian deaths could’ve meant much quicker, more decisive victories in both conflicts but at the cost of mass condemnation of the international community.
Leftists - "an AR-15 is useless against an F-16"
Me - Well I guess we all should get an F-16 then.
While grabbers obviously won't engage in an honest debate, most conditioned NPCs don't realize that the price of modern weapons preclude their use in shenanigans.
If I become super successful I would happily buy and maintain one shiny, well-oiled (and track-tensioned) Abrams, with some local buddies as the scratch crew, and we'd join up with whatever other mechanized bros were around a few times a year for exercises. Nobody would be harmed (except anyone stupid enough to fuck with the United States), industries would benefit, and a good time would be had by all.
You don't commit crimes in a ten million dollar warfighting machine.
Funny how all the tanks and fighter jets in the world couldn't beat a bunch of vietnamese rice farmers and illiterate goat herders hiding in caves with nothing more than rusty AKs and pickup trucks. It's almost like military force multiplication equipment is primarily meant for fighting other nations instead of a guerrilla fighting force.
I think it’s less that we couldn’t and more that our leaders weren’t willing to commit to the kind of overwhelming use of force that a war declaration brings. Accepting high levels of civilian deaths could’ve meant much quicker, more decisive victories in both conflicts but at the cost of mass condemnation of the international community.