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Topic: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47012 on: July 19, 2025, 12:15:17 PM »
any such invasion by US would've been doomed to fail. the only conceivably realistic way to break USSR would've been to use nukes on them in the 4 year head start US had on them on the atom bomb imo.
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47013 on: July 19, 2025, 12:27:29 PM »
I think so too

but, today we could kick some ass
Who's we?
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47014 on: July 19, 2025, 12:40:05 PM »
U. S, & A
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47015 on: July 19, 2025, 12:49:22 PM »
Not without help, and a lot of it. India would be needed. Would they become an ally?

Russia would be joined by Iran, China and North Korea. All with massive army's. 

What wars has the USA won without help (or even with help)?

When was the last one since WWII?

There isn't one. 80 years, lots of wars, no wins.
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47016 on: July 19, 2025, 12:56:10 PM »
Putin would push the button,no doubt,let the Russkies deal with their problem
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47017 on: July 19, 2025, 01:39:59 PM »
I think so too

but, today we could kick some ass
lol. yeah, no.

we can't even beat goat-fucking sheep herder cave men in Afghanistan who have never seen a shower or toilet wielding home made explosives and crummy Soviet era AKs manufactured in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

$37 trillion in debt, completely over-extended and stretched dangerously thin both financially and military. in short; we are cooked.

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47018 on: July 19, 2025, 01:41:18 PM »
Whatever means necessary.
yeah, hard pass. no thanks. i think Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimey enough on our end.

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« Reply #47019 on: July 19, 2025, 03:42:33 PM »
if the Ruskies don't have enuff to over run Ukraine......... they don't got much
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47020 on: July 19, 2025, 04:19:36 PM »
The US's military might hasn't been wholly unleashed in 80 years.  We've had to be surgical, careful, nuanced, and not against an official national entity. 
Basically no one has done anything to have us go all Israel on them.
And that's on purpose.

IF a country officially and directly attacked us, we'd unleash the fury and erase them from the planet.
They know this.

So they're not stupid.  That's all.
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47021 on: July 20, 2025, 08:42:57 AM »
The US's military might hasn't been wholly unleashed in 80 years.  We've had to be surgical, careful, nuanced, and not against an official national entity. 
Basically no one has done anything to have us go all Israel on them.
And that's on purpose.

IF a country officially and directly attacked us, we'd unleash the fury and erase them from the planet.
They know this.

So they're not stupid.  That's all.
The USA doesn't even have the numbers to actually win a war. Probably not the intestinal fortitude either.

USA: 2.1 million (including reserves - 1.3 million active)

Including the USA, NATO combined has 3.2 million active personnel.

China: 3 million (2 M active)
N Korea: 7.6 million (1.3)
Russia: 3.2 million (1.1)
Iran: 1 million (0.6)
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47022 on: July 20, 2025, 09:15:57 AM »
The US was very tired of war in April, 1945, and funds were starting to be short.  The Russians had about three times as many divisions in Europe as the US albeit smaller ones.  Russia had much better tanks, comparable fighters, very tough experienced soldiers, and ton of artillery.  Patton would not have "marched to Moscow".  It would have been an incredibly tough fight, probably ending in stalemate.

You might say "Well, we had the bomb", in August anyway, but not many of them, and only transferrable using the B-29, which was hardly immune to opposing fighters and not really tactically useful.  And we didn't have many of them.

I don't think it was at all a viable option to have attacked Russia in 1945.  We still had the war in the Pacific going on as well.

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47023 on: July 20, 2025, 11:24:36 AM »
I deem that idea as Dems copying Rs' actions.  
But you know, I'm just some sort of lefty caricature.  
Definitely not a moderate abandoned by both parties.  
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47024 on: July 20, 2025, 11:35:05 AM »
Have you posted about football once?  I hope you're here for the right reasons.
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47025 on: July 20, 2025, 11:48:38 AM »
Is this the football thread?
Have you found any?
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