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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
Russia, China then the US.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@hippyjoe1955
In terms of nuclear weaponry and the guts to launch them in self-defense, Russia.
In terms of manpower, love of the motherland, and the willingness to die for the homeland, China.
In terms of war culture and military hardware, USA.
Americans live, eat and breathe warfighting. We don't actually fight war even though we are armed to the teeth; have military bases all over the world; still occupying Germany, Japan, and South Korea; continually pounding one country or another from the air with munitions since Vietnam. And when we do go to war, our warfighters are right up there backing up a coalition of allied soldiers going first thru the ruins of massive air bombardments by the US Air Force. And our war stories are told on Youtube by tough guys who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan not to mention the ex-members of Seal Team Six who took out non-combatants and their families hiding in fear from the long arm of the US Government.
Russia, China then the US.
In terms of nuclear weaponry and the guts to launch them in self-defense, Russia.
In terms of manpower, love of the motherland, and the willingness to die for the homeland, China.
In terms of war culture and military hardware, USA.
Americans live, eat and breathe warfighting. We don't actually fight war even though we are armed to the teeth; have military bases all over the world; still occupying Germany, Japan, and South Korea; continually pounding one country or another from the air with munitions since Vietnam. And when we do go to war, our warfighters are right up there backing up a coalition of allied soldiers going first thru the ruins of massive air bombardments by the US Air Force. And our war stories are told on Youtube by tough guys who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan not to mention the ex-members of Seal Team Six who took out non-combatants and their families hiding in fear from the long arm of the US Government.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@sree251 The American tech is designed to fight WW11. It is no longer capable of fighting an advanced military. It aircraft carriers are little more than floating targets. Their missall capacity is empty threat at best. Its tanks have failed rather spectacularly in Ukraine as have its APCs. Look at what happened in Israel when it went to war with Iran. Israel had to beg for a ceasefire. The US couldn't defeat the Houtis in Yemen. Its advanced stealth fighters are being monitored in real time by Iranian and Russian radar.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@hippyjoe1955
I think war between first-world countries is ridiculous. Technology has unified the human race. There is no space separating you and me in the conduct of this conversation. You could be in Mongolia talking to me in New Zealand. The entire human race is virtually face to face living in one room. Trump is old school and, like all politicians in power governing nations, needs to be retired and barred from public office. A comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world as one, a new weltanschauung, is what is needed. Let the young, and the young in mind, run the world.
The American tech is designed to fight WW11.
I think war between first-world countries is ridiculous. Technology has unified the human race. There is no space separating you and me in the conduct of this conversation. You could be in Mongolia talking to me in New Zealand. The entire human race is virtually face to face living in one room. Trump is old school and, like all politicians in power governing nations, needs to be retired and barred from public office. A comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world as one, a new weltanschauung, is what is needed. Let the young, and the young in mind, run the world.