• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Unfortunately this fascist controls the mightiest military force this planet has ever seen. The only people who could realistically stop an invasion after Trump orders it are US generals themselves.

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      16 hours ago

      Normally this would not really be an issue, you don’t need a vast military to prevent a much bigger army from invading or winning.

      You just need to make it suck as much as possible for the attacker, to the point that it is not worth it for them.

      Unfortunately this doesn’t work with people like Trump as he has invested his ego into this, and his ego is much larger than the military.

      He doesn’t care about the soldiers he will get killed, as long as his ego wins.

      As a Swede, I want us to send subs and our Visby corvettes, we should send Gripens, all while coordinating with our brothers in the south.

      All of EU/NATO should send troops, planes and ships to defend Greenland.

      America has never faced a technological equal on the battlefield since WWII, and I don’t know if they are prepared for how tough it will be.

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      16 hours ago

      It’s only mighty on paper. The US hasn’t outright won a war since WW2 (most of the time they fought themselves into a stalemate then pouted and “strategically withdrew” proclaiming they won the war), in various war games they regularly have their asses handed to them, and so on.

      The US literally spends nearly a thousand billion USD a year on padding the pockets of a select few buddies with defence contractor companies, who deliver subpar equipment, have overrun every single project for the past what, 30 years, in both budget and timeline, and essentially used the entirety of their military as a social welfare program.

      They’ve got big numbers, and yes that’s a bit scary, but by admission of actual active US military members, the dummies outnumber the actually intelligent, leadership material 9 to 1 at least. Which isn’t a good ratio.

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      16 hours ago

      I hope Kegsbreath calls another bitching session to piss them off real good right before they get the order to invade an EU territory