• Something Burger 🍔
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    2 days ago

    Poorly but the US would lose like the loser country they are. MFs couldn’t win against Vietnam or Afghan peasants.

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      It doesn’t quite feel right for other countries have to send their citizens to fight and die against a former ally just because American citizens can’t hold their government accountable.

    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      That’s because Americans could not stomach killing enough innocent people to win the war like we had in previous wars. The US military could have depopulated Afghanistan if the citizens of the US would have permitted it.

      If an invading army is attacking America there’s little reason to believe the citizens wouldn’t be ok with killing every invader.

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        depopulate is a pretty weird way to say “genocide”….

        i, from my armchair, think it’s more about “hearts and minds”… as in, according to the us army guerilla warfare handbook, a guerilla army is impossible to defeat if they are well supported by the populace.

        they can always disappear into someone’s home, and can always get new supplies….
        well, unless you genocide the entire country….

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          depopulate is a pretty weird way to say “genocide”….

          Genocides suggest that people remain and/or suggests killing a single ethnic group. Depopulate means killing everyone. The choice of “depopulate” was intentional as I believe had the US military wanted to they had enough ordinance to kill literally everything in Afghanistan and Iraq.