re: USS Hudner Shoots Down Drone

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You’re stuck in the 1940s. Our military can’t finish the job against any third world shithole since the 60s. Hell, the 50s if you count Korea.

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You're factually correct, but not because the military can't do it. Our society has become weak. Most can't stomach an actual full on war. We play by "rules" now.

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This is true. We haven't been in a SERIOUS war since WW2, and honestly even going back to WW1 it's been about exerting our influence. We haven't been threatened on our native soil for over a century (Hawaii wasn't a state in WW2).
Every conflict we get into, we 'follow rules' because our opponent is faced with holding us off, and nothing more.

Going back to WW2- Japan showed the world what happens if you engage us directly. They hit a naval base a couple thousand miles from our shores, and we systemically beat their military back to their own country, and then began bombing it into oblivion until they surrendered unconditionally- while committing half of our forces to the European conflict.

That is why China won't touch Taiwan, or anything else out there. And why the USSR focused more on nuclear deterrent than trying to take more of Europe. We haven't been threatened since, we just punch people randomly on their territory. If the US were truly interested in conquest instead of being noble, I suspect we'd already own the planet by now, and just be quashing uprisings on occasion.