America has lost multiple wars in the desert and been chased out of Afghanistan. The American military is currently struggling hard with the Houthis, and the proxy war in the Ukraine of all of Nato is going Putin's way. The combined manufacturing might of all of Nato can't beat the "gas station masquerading as a country". Giving all the manufacturing to China and other countries was a huge mistake. Likewise, attempts to break Russia with tariffs failed miserably. Is America even still a global super power at this point?
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America is the last global superpower, that goes to war with both hands and feet tied behind our backs. Nobody has the stomach for real war anymore, so everything is done in half measures. Been that way since Vietnam. We weren't "chased out of Afghanistan" a politician with zero military expertise ordered a full withdrawal without telling the allied government and without a plan to do a planned drawdown to remove or scuttle military equipment. Our military has been hobbled by hostile, hippy dippy politicians and a media that cannot wait to paint us as the Great Evil to the ignorant masses.
"Speak quietly and carry a big stick" only works when you're willing to use the big stick.
If we weren't afraid to be the boogie man of the world Afghanistan would be a large disc of glass.
As would Pakistan, the place where UBL was actually being hidden.
Something something security for Afghani poppy fields…
Of course, doesn't make for a good headline if they say "we dug up Bin Laden's corpse after he passed from kidney failure in 2004" so they kept up the charade of him being alive for a decade afterwards.
Partly why almost everyone who couldn't keep their mouth shut were shot down in a helicopter crash 3 months later. Google it; the "2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown". Taking care of loose ends.
if we truly weren't afraid, israel would finally be melted like the dross it is...
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politicianfraud masquerading as our presidentwith zero military expertise ordered a full withdrawal without tellingstabbed the allied government in the back andwithout a plan to do a planned drawdown to remove or scuttle military equipmentorchestrated a handover of our strategic military positions and resources to enemy forces in an act of treason that resulted in the deaths of 13 of our service members and many friendly civilians.Yeah, no need to be charitable with that demon.
What makes a superpower? I keep hearing this argument about how we could do better in wars but I doubt it. The reality is we are broke AF and running out of people. The military is more and more filled with foreigners/mercenary sorts just in it for citizenship and benefits.
America dies with the Americans. Rome died with the romans. The empire just used their name.
The ability to project military power anywhere on the globe.
If we actually took the gloves off, we could take out any country in under a week. Our military hasn't been used to win a war in decades. It has only been used in intentionally dragged out affairs as cover for the "elites" as they loot the treasury.
By that logic there are many countries that are superpowers. The world ain't so big anymore
No there aren't. Managing the logistics of waging a war on the other side of an ocean is something exactly one country on the planet can do. The next closest would be China, and they are only a threat to their neighbors.
I disagree entirely. I've heard all about how amazing the us military is compared to other countries but it's not without peers. Especially if you consider the fact that most countries have missiles and drones that would love to hit all those fat navy ships etc.
You really think the USA can just walk through China in two weeks? Hubris such as yours is why Americans lost their sons in Afghanistan.
Why do you think that the American Navy has exactly zero counter measures for missiles and drones? What do you actually know about the American military?
The Germans knew they were going to lose when they started intercepting chocolate cakes in our supply chains. That hasn't changed, America sends Burger King to the warzone. China has nowhere near the amoing of experience in modern warfare that we do, and not just counting GWOT.
Hell their only aircraft carrier that isnt in perpetual drydock is one of ours that they bought as scrap from Australia. It still uses a ramp to launch fighters.
Once again, equating aircraft carriers with success is hubris. They have applications but no, all it takes is a single missile and they are down.
China follows the doctrine of winning without fighting. The US has been perfecting fighting without winning.
I am no longer convinced the stick works, even if we had the will to use it.
Our ships ram into each other at random and we can't build a pier on an uncontested beach without it breaking apart and sinking.
Been that way since Korea, when Truman was scared to send troops or bombers into China even though the Chinese and Russians were sending a constant flood of troops and supplies across the Yalu river.
They have elections, but only one party to vote for.
At least its more truthful. Westerns just think they have options.
The people controlling the wars don't want to win them, they want low intensity conflicts forever to keep selling overpriced bombs and manipulating the populace into ignoring domestic issues.
If the US military were told to win a war with the only limit being no nuclear deployment, every opponent we've fought between vietnam and now would have ceased existing as a threat.
It is the global power. Exporting feminism, LGBTQ2SIAP+, atheism and encouraging immigration is considerably more destructive to a society then weapons.
Thanks for your service, goy.
The US loses wars because the point is not victory, but perpetual war.
America is losing because your standards for victory are absurd. In Afghanistan, defeat means not turning the non-Taliban Afghans into a stable, self-sufficient government. In Ukraine, defeat means failing to secure control of a thousand miles of Soviet homeland. If the objective in Afghanistan was "kill those who wronged us" America could have done that in an afternoon.
I no longer consider the US the "good guy" in anything it has done since the progressive era in the early 1900s. Superpower or not, so long as our elites believe they can fuck with the entire world, we will continue to be the bad guys.
If it is it won't be for much longer. Every great nation, kingdom, or empire decayed from within before collapsing or being conquered.
A nation builds and empire, then the empire exhausts and consumes the nation. By the late Roman empire they were less than 10% romans.
This is retarded. We literally fight wars with as large a handicap as possible and still obliterate our opponents. If the US wasnt afraid of bad publicity we'd turn these areas into glass
America didn't leave behind their equipment by accident. That equipment ended up in the hands of the Muslims who took over Syria. This was all by design. The whole operation was Israel-American including "leaving the weapons behind".
The USA is a superpower but the wars you think the USA lost were always designed to lose.
The Ukraine war was never meant to end either.
No. Drone and long range missile warfare has invalidated our existing military doctrine, and no legitimate effort has been made to create a doctrine, or the manufacturing base needed, to transition into the new military reality.
In gaming terms, the USA is Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. The greatest of the Lord Souls.
People here are dancing around it. But the answer is the same one as the questuion "are the cia and fbi anti-american?" They aren't, and the USA is the only super power.
But the CIA and FBI don't perceive aamerica the way you do, their job isnt to serve the citizens or preserve their rights, their job is to maintain order internally and project power outward. The same is true for the USA. YOU think that being a super powered is defeating your enemies, the American establishment doesn't view a single entity that you think of as an enemy as one. They view being a super powered as achieving their goals. None of which are a powerful robust nation state, empowered populace, increased quality of life for citizens, elimination of rogue threats.
So yes it's a superpower, it's just opposed to you.
Yes. The global economy still uses USD and any time someone tries to move from under its thumb, the US and their "allies" economically ravage them with sanctions, espionage or straight up military action. Just because countries don't fly the American flag as a state-mandated authority, doesn't mean they aren't part of the empire.
Ukraine is not fighting with the combined manufacturing might of NATO. The spigot has been opened, definitely, but NATO countries need to maintain their own (tiny) militaries, haven't stepped up manufacturing, and have a lot of challenges moving and integrating the supplies in Ukraine.
This is not to blame insufficient military aid for the Ukrainian losses. They would be facing the same problems if we gave them triple the military aid. There's only so much people can do with tanks they only got yesterday, no combined arms doctrine, and the most corrupt leadership on the planet.
America can barely hold up to sand niggers in sandals so no