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 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.