The US will lose WW3

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General Dog: Apr 26, 2008; Everybody's working for the weekend

Yuli Ban posted:

The cold fact is that the USA is not ready to fight a full-fledged war. We like shouting that we're 2-0 back-to-back World War champions when we came in at the last minute in World War I, reinvigorating the Entente just enough to obtain victory; we did fairly well in World War II, but the European theatre of the war was actually won by the Russians; we crushed North Korea but got crushed by China and just stayed there, dying like dumbasses until we decided to go home and tried to pretend it didn't happen.

Then we spent the next 65 years bombing and losing to peasant farmers in new, exotic locations and declaring ourselves the strongest, most unbeatable military on Earth.

We're so used to insurgents, suicide bombers, guerrilla tactics, and asymmetrical warfare that we would suffer a collective breakdown of our national psyche if we actually faced an actual military. Like Russia circa 1905.
The only exception was Iraq, who we blitzed twice. You know, the same Iraq that spent eight years failing to invade and dying to an internally-disorganized, geopolitically-ignored Iran despite having the backing of both the USA and the USSR during the height of the Cold War.

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General Dog: Apr 26, 2008; Everybody's working for the weekend

Typo posted:

This is actual racist confederate propaganda btw, one of the core confederate propaganda arguments is that they were "real protestant americans" fighting against untermenschen unamerican Catholic Irish immigrants

So was it a lie, or was it just objectionable framing?

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