I mean if everyone able mobilized in Ripley County Missouri where my farms are, we might end up with two, maybe three companies worth of men able of fighting. That's not going to do a lot when the other side can mobilize brigade and battalion sized deployments.
You are aware the majority of the food is produced in red states right?
And?
Ukraine was an exporter of food before the Holodomor. It doesn't matter how much food you produce when a platoon shows up to take it.
Then it matters how good of a shot your neighbors are.
I mean if everyone able mobilized in Ripley County Missouri where my farms are, we might end up with two, maybe three companies worth of men able of fighting. That's not going to do a lot when the other side can mobilize brigade and battalion sized deployments.
Why would you attempt to fight a conventional war? Asymmetrical warfare works, ask the Taliban.
Conventional warfare is not a thing anymore