• Lemminary@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    2 days ago

    I never understood this American line of thinking. Guns work against other people with guns like those trigger-happy & blood thirst MAGAts. But the US military can cook you alive from a mile away if they wanted to. Against that opponent you’re gonna need a way different approach.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      The same US military that is batting a fat zero in winning wars of insurgency? Remember all those videos of afghan people getting killed in thermal vision from “a mile away”? Those guys won.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        7
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        Yeah, on foreign soil and across the world. Lol I want to figuratively see what they can do at home especially now that their ethics are out the window.

        “different tactics” meant exactly what you’re saying and beyond. Those guys won when the military hadn’t faced such an opponent. You’re gonna need way more than guns and be forced to get creative.

        • JamesTBagg@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          16 hours ago

          It’s worse than what was faced overseas, here at home you have large number of War on Terror veterans. Trained, armed and experienced, many disillusioned with the tilting of the government, and the media, and the populace around them. There’s been a blue shift in both active duty and veteran communities.

          The optimist in me hopes it’s enough.

            • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              1 day ago

              Why would their “ethics” come into play in foreign soil? You don’t think Cletus might think twice when asked to fire hell fire missiles into Grand Papas house?

              The us did not have a lack of boom overseas, its always had the logistics to put “warheads on foreheads” anywhere in the world.

              In the “homeland”? I don’t think you even understand the sort of cluster fuck of a military operation you are proposing. Like do you think if a civil war broke out, all the “sides” would separate and fly a flag? At this point it would be like other modern civil wars with a just mess of sides and no clear front.

              • Lemminary@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                3
                ·
                1 day ago

                You don’t need to talk down to me and assume things that I didn’t say. Listen to what I’m saying because it’s different than you seem to pivot on.

                Ethics used to guide the type of weapon employed, especially overseas with foreign watch. If none of that is necessary, including the logistics, then putting the “warheads on foreheads” is much easier. And if people aren’t necessarily watching, who cares if you use an extra bit of cruelty. It’s exactly what Russia does next door.

                don’t think you even understand the sort of cluster fuck of a military operation you are proposing

                I don’t think I was proposing any sort of military operation, clusterfuck or otherwise. Where’d you get that idea? Lol

                all the “sides” would separate and fly a flag?

                Huh? There is one side with a flag and a head of state in chare of the military. What are you on about? Just decided to make up interpretations of what I meant? It’s a bit off putting tbh.

                • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  1 day ago

                  This series of posts is about armed counter movements in the united states. And here you are accusing me of assuming what was said.