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re: Could the US conquer the entire world if it wanted to?
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:36 pm to weagle99
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:36 pm to weagle99
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Could the US conquer the entire world if it wanted to
Are you kidding? No way. And even if it tried, just look at the problems we had running Iraq after we conquered and occupied it. Now multiply those troubles by about 1 million. Nationalism and pride in one's country don't only exist in the U.S. The people in the other countries we are trying to rule would resent us BIG-TIME. Take for example, the problems the U.S. had in the Philippines after we took possession of them from Spain. So no, the U.S. can't conquer the world and it should not even try to. It would turn us into the most hated country since the days of Nazi Germany. For every aggressive action, there is always a reaction.
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Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:39 pm to weagle99
no. sans a nuclear attack, taking Russia would be a long drawn out blood fest of loss on both sides.
don't think just military might, think terrain, waterways, etc...
Think about someone attacking the US...they have to deal with our Navy before they could even get in sniffing distance of our coast. NO ONE wants to balls up to our complete Naval might. No one that wants to live anyway.
don't think just military might, think terrain, waterways, etc...
Think about someone attacking the US...they have to deal with our Navy before they could even get in sniffing distance of our coast. NO ONE wants to balls up to our complete Naval might. No one that wants to live anyway.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:39 pm to LSUBoo
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And even if we have a lot of work left to do, the USA is very well isolated from the rest of the worlds' military powers.
We love Canada, Mexico, and the water, don't we folks?
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:41 pm to weagle99
Sure. But it would be brutal and millions if not billions of people would be slautered
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:42 pm to weagle99
The more area we conquer, the more troops are needed as an occupying force to keep control over those areas. We’d start getting stretched thin trying to occupy more than a handful of medium sized countries and wouldn’t have enough troops to simulatenously continue offensives while defending captured territory
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:43 pm to slackster
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We love Canada, Mexico, and the water, don't we folks?
Canada and Mexico would just be part of the USA pretty quickly in this scenario. They had best bend the knee in a hurry.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:46 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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Source: I play Risk.
Bong Hit Risk...up your game. Take a bong hit for each country you conquer. Brings the game of Risk to a whole different level.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:47 pm to Cosmo
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Could defeat the world but couldnt really hold on and control it unless willing to massacre people
Yep. We can start with the radical islamic countries first and eradicate every one of them. That would make the world a much safer place.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:48 pm to Cosmo
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Could defeat the world but couldnt really hold on and control it unless willing to massacre people
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:54 pm to weagle99
frick no. Do you know how pussed out this country is now?
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:55 pm to weagle99
No
We didn't defeat the committed nation of North Vietnam. We are not winning in Afghanistan My opinion is that we really didn't win in Iraq and those are three pissant nations.
What would ever make us think we would defeat Russia and China if we can't win in Afghanistan. We are currently in the process of allowing N Korea to obtain nuclear weapons and a delivery system.
We are a well armed paper tiger with a press and one or two political parties who would never participate in such a thing and a population who would never walk away from their cell phones, facebook, instagram and Tigerdroppings long enough to fight a global war and then devote our future to serving as an army of occupation.
We can't even occupy and control the suburbs of St. Louis or Los Angeles. We don't even want to get into our ability to control the criminal element of New Orleans.
We didn't defeat the committed nation of North Vietnam. We are not winning in Afghanistan My opinion is that we really didn't win in Iraq and those are three pissant nations.
What would ever make us think we would defeat Russia and China if we can't win in Afghanistan. We are currently in the process of allowing N Korea to obtain nuclear weapons and a delivery system.
We are a well armed paper tiger with a press and one or two political parties who would never participate in such a thing and a population who would never walk away from their cell phones, facebook, instagram and Tigerdroppings long enough to fight a global war and then devote our future to serving as an army of occupation.
We can't even occupy and control the suburbs of St. Louis or Los Angeles. We don't even want to get into our ability to control the criminal element of New Orleans.
This post was edited on 12/22/17 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:56 pm to weagle99
No..
But lets think this out just for the sake of it.
Are you talking about the US itself, no allies? So the US, with all it's resources, would have to put together the best possible plan with the goal to conquer the world?
They would need allies, but at some point they would have to start turning on those allies and once that is done, then our other allies would likely turn on us in fear of us turning on them.
And what would be the best way to start a world conquering mission?
But lets think this out just for the sake of it.
Are you talking about the US itself, no allies? So the US, with all it's resources, would have to put together the best possible plan with the goal to conquer the world?
They would need allies, but at some point they would have to start turning on those allies and once that is done, then our other allies would likely turn on us in fear of us turning on them.
And what would be the best way to start a world conquering mission?
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:57 pm to MeridianDog
You’d really need a mindset of the Romans, or the Mongols, or even the Nazis with competent leadership, in order to achieve such a thing even nominally. Offer enough incentive and you could get volunteers from places you took over. Colonial armies
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:59 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 12/22/17 at 1:59 pm to weagle99
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Could the US conquer the entire world if it wanted to?
No, our army of ~2 million (active + reserve) can't control 7 billion people. That's 3,500 people for every one soldier.
This post was edited on 12/22/17 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:00 pm to weagle99
Probably if we are willing to destroy most of it (and ourselves) in the process.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:02 pm to MeridianDog
We need to take control of North Baton Rouge first. Make Baton Rouge Great again.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:03 pm to Spaceman Spiff
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Yep. We can start with the radical islamic countries first and eradicate every one of them. That would make the world a much safer place.
So what would be your answer be to all the radioactive fallout and nuclear winter caused by all the nuclear weapons we'd have to use to conquer just Pakistan and Indonesia?
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:04 pm to kingbob
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There is no world anymore. Only corporations.
This is a good point. Corporations and special interest groups.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:06 pm to MeridianDog
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We didn't defeat the committed nation of North Vietnam. We are not winning in Afghanistan My opinion is that we really didn't win in Iraq and those are three pissant nations. What would ever make us think we would defeat Russia and China if we can't win in Afghanistan. We are currently in the process of allowing N Korea to obtain nuclear weapons and a delivery system.
If the US was trying to conquer the world, it wouldn't care about civilian casualties.
The current US nuclear weapon arsenal could take out an area the size of Alaska + Texas with 3rd degree burns, plenty enough for the top 100 cities in the world.
It would come down to issues occupying the area. Manpower would be the biggest concern.
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