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Originally posted by Fox Molder
Originally posted by Thepreye
This whole thread is a joke, my guess is there are no US participants just a bunch of US hating French Canadians masquerading as Merkahns to get them a worse reputation, the US couldn't conquer and occupy the ultra weak 5 axis of evil nations and now they think they could conquer and occupy Europe and all of Asia, what pathetic thinking.
You must have had great fun Dimitri
...If you are not going to be a productive member of this discussion
Now for the subject at hand. It is very unlikely that the U.S. could hold it might over the world without key allies and I really don't think that this could happen, specially when it comes to the middle East.
Originally posted by Thepreye
Originally posted by Fox Molder
Originally posted by Thepreye
This whole thread is a joke, my guess is there are no US participants just a bunch of US hating French Canadians masquerading as Merkahns to get them a worse reputation, the US couldn't conquer and occupy the ultra weak 5 axis of evil nations and now they think they could conquer and occupy Europe and all of Asia, what pathetic thinking.
You must have had great fun Dimitri
...If you are not going to be a productive member of this discussion
Now for the subject at hand. It is very unlikely that the U.S. could hold it might over the world without key allies and I really don't think that this could happen, specially when it comes to the middle East.
How could anyone be a productive member of this particular discussion?
Your final sentence says it all, the answer is a very obvious no, the US couldn't conquer the world, imho they could though defend themselves against the whole world including Mexico and Canada, if it didn't go nuclear, the fighting on the Alaska front would be bloody and epic though.
It would mean the social model in the USA would resemble North Korea after a few years of total war footing.
Originally posted by Maddogkull
With all the "So called underground bases" the weapondry, the military spending. Why does any other nation bother in fighting america? how could they win. Imagine the weapons the US will release when a major war happens. no nation even spends 1/6th the amount America does. The wepons they have must be unimagineable. If Dulce, or other bases exist and the stuff thats happening down there is really real it would even be more terrifying. Could Russia even compete with the U.S.A??? Could all of Europe even compete with them?
[edit on 16-9-2009 by Maddogkull]
Originally posted by double_frick
what is the drop out rate in america, these days??? not that graduating means you know anything about the way the world works, anymore.
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
reply to post by trentyh
And really, do you think us Canadians are stupid? We could probably effectively decapitate the US all by ourselves.
Originally posted by allenidaho
The one thing we have going for ourselves, aside from ballistic missiles, is our fleet of aircraft carriers. There are currently 18 in active service. But when compared to Russia or China, we are severely outgunned in terms of surface ships and submarines.
Originally posted by allenidahoWe do have the advantage of stealth aircraft. But not many. And they are only effective against radar. Not against patrolling interceptors.
Originally posted by RSF77
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
reply to post by trentyh
And really, do you think us Canadians are stupid? We could probably effectively decapitate the US all by ourselves.
This statement pretty much answers itself. Any nation that has ever tried attacking the US has done it in a very cowardly and stupid manner and then been utterly defeated.
Where do you think Canada got all of it's military equipment anyways? If anything you should be thanking the US for the fact that you even have anything resembling a military.
I like the Canadian government because it appears to be very liberal and seems like it would be a nice place to live, but the fact remains proven by your own post nonetheless, that when it comes to war Canadians aren't the brightest apples in the bunch.
The aegis defenses systems make a USCG almost impervious to any missile attack, in order to successfully make a hit on any given ship in the group a nation would literally have to use more missiles than their equivalent number of ships could physically carry.
The US Navy recently test fired a 100 mile magnetic railgun version of their ships main guns, this will bypass any missile defense systems and it is speculated they will be able to reach 200 miles in the near future, there are not many countries that even have missiles that can reach this range. The metal slug it fires is not explosive and can be carried in large quantities, but travels at extremely high velocities and causes massive kinetic damage.
The best bet against a USCG (Carrier Group) would be a submarine attack, and even then you have to be in exactly the right place at the right time or bet on the commander of the carrier group to make some kind of mistake or move in the wrong way.
The F-22 is capable of shooting down 14 of any plane in the world at long range that would pose any sort of competition for it, and it still packs 4 more close range missiles. The only real threat to an F-22, given that it was already detected by some other advanced sensor system, is an F-14 packing phoenix missiles.
We can sit here and argue specifics all day long, the cold hard facts dictate that the US military is the most powerful in the world.
If anyone here is even somewhat knowledgeable of modern military technologies and tactics of the US and any others that could pose any kind of competition, I urge you to name a way (a realistic one, not a pipe dream) in which to exploit something about the US to take us over. You can't come up with anything that makes any sort of real sense because more than likely it doesn't exist. You people need to know a little bit about what your are talking about before you post this garbage.