sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoWhy the US is facing strategic defeatpolicytensor.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up152file-text
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minus-squareBelly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 month agoGenerals at the time of the 2003 Iraq invasion said they’d need 4 million US troops to occupy the country when we had only 4 million troops worldwide. Bush still went ahead with it and killed a bunch of Iraqis anyway without doing a draft.
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThis is why I worry about tactical nukes. It’s the only quick way to end the war on favourable terms for the US/Israel.
minus-squareoliveoil [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoEven that won’t be so favourable… Everyone will scramble to get nukes.
Generals at the time of the 2003 Iraq invasion said they’d need 4 million US troops to occupy the country when we had only 4 million troops worldwide. Bush still went ahead with it and killed a bunch of Iraqis anyway without doing a draft.
This is why I worry about tactical nukes. It’s the only quick way to end the war on favourable terms for the US/Israel.
Even that won’t be so favourable…
Everyone will scramble to get nukes.