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Originally posted by Kailassa
Originally posted by dooper
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
So if I understand what you said, it's that America is hated because of the wars we get involved in.
I wish we could have known that about 1917.
Could have saved a lot of American boys lives by staying home.
Then we wouldn't have had to go BACK again just a generation later, and could have REALLY saved some American lives - and TONS of money.
Could have avoided all that lend/lease, and then the cleanup and reconstruction with the Marshall Plan.
Don't know if the winner would have been Russia or Germany, but it would definitely been one or the other.
Wow. All of Europe either Nazi, or Communist.
Then we wouldn't be HAVING this discussion.
Funny man.
Without the support Americans gave Hitler and the Nazi party, there may have been no world war II.
Guess which past American Presidents still possess wealth made by working Jewish prisoners to death to produce steel for the German war machine?
Guess who was making money by selling Zyclon B to the prison camps?
Originally posted by infolurker
Yeah, unless you kill EVERYONE... and let's be honest... The USA is about the only damned country that actually TRIES to limit civilian casualties so... NO. Our mission (in my opinion) is to keep all the rest of the loons from killing themselves (and us in the process). So three cheers for having to be the planets freeking peacekeeper... a thankless job and a very expensive one.
Originally posted by thematrix
I think over 1 million Iraqi civilians disagree with that statement ...
Originally posted by von_noobie
American military might is not getting much better while Russian military might is taking massive leaps, Might take a decade, But there Mig-35 gonna kick ass against the F-35
Originally posted by von_noobie
Add to that there future tank could have upto a 152mm main gun, russian tanks are cheap, reliable, easy to produce..
Originally posted by stumason
The US isn't and never will be in a position to "take over the world". No matter what fanciful weapons you think you might have, you can guarantee that someone else has got something just as funky.
In the near furture, the US's power will be considerably diminished further, not increased and you will have a multi-polar world again. If you ever wanted to take over the world, you have missed the boat by a long shot, if it was ever even docked in the first place.
The US has a hard time beating and holding ground in third world nations
let alone taking on developed nations such as Russia, China or the EU or even India. The only way the US could ever take on the world would be if you practiced total genocide, which would be immediately reciprocated upon your own people, making the whole exercise pointless.
Originally posted by von_noobie
As for all this Marvelous weapons the USA has.. et over your selves, They have some unmanned vehicles, couple thousand nukes, and s**t load of tanks, APC's/IFV's, 2,000+ fighters, 3,000+ other aircraft, and total combined force of 3+ million troops (army, marines, reserves, national gaurd)
That wouldnt even be enought to take on Russia.. let alone Europe of China... As for those american kenetic non nuclear bombs that can destroy citys.. Your confused.. russia has the worlds most powerful non nuclear weapon.
Wicked bomb compared to the yank MOAB, MOAB has over 8 tons of explosives, the Russian bomb has only 7 tons but is still 4 times more powerful... Watch out America, Russia is on the way back....
American military might is not getting much better while Russian military might is taking massive leaps,
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Might take a decade, But there Mig-35 gonna kick ass against the F-35
Add to that there future tank could have upto a 152mm main gun, russian tanks are cheap, reliable, easy to produce..
All in all, The US only excells naval wise..
Big bucks dont automatically make you the best... Russia manages justfine with low bucks..They just choose to make there stuff simple, and effective.
Originally posted by trentyh
The U.S. in Afghanistan right now is using 1/20th of our military might.we could take the world by storm is needed. All that would need to be done is a order to B2 bombs to destroy Russian nuclear capability thus crippling their "largest supply of nuclear warheads" the fact of a matter is Russia doesn't have the guidance system to correctly launch them.
China would be crippled because of the fact they can`t launch a nuclear warhead without receiving 100s more back.
As for Europe they would side with us and probably ally with us because they are just as arrogant as we are.
Russia's army is using the ak47 a weapon so inaccurate i doubt you could hit a buffalo with it.
Africa would be to easy we would just send in the national guard.
Then Russia would unleash their military might and be crushed. However Russia would side with us for economic reasons and plus the fact imagine a America-Russia alliance it would be unstoppable.
The U.s. right now has the capability to blow up the world 3x over. while Russia has more nuclear warheads then us. We have way more explosives then them our entire arsenal is equal to 80million metric tons of TNT, 20 million metric tons of Semtex, and 40million metric tons of c4. To give you an idea on our arsenal. Supposing the war went Nuclear we have preprogrammed locations where we could easily press a button and kaboom.
While were conquering china our bombers are efficiently eliminating Russian bombing capability as for their father of all bombs we have 2000 mother of all bombs on stand by to be used and did you know the mother is often bigger in nature? While bloodied and severely hurt we would still be top dog.
Thank god this goes against all of our principles.
The U.s. could do it but we wont so for all you people that say we cant stand up to Russia they have triple our landmass and one third of our population,
Sources
My knowledge of our worlds military and the fact i am studying to be a battle tactician
Originally posted by thematrix
Originally posted by infolurker
Yeah, unless you kill EVERYONE... and let's be honest... The USA is about the only damned country that actually TRIES to limit civilian casualties so... NO. Our mission (in my opinion) is to keep all the rest of the loons from killing themselves (and us in the process). So three cheers for having to be the planets freeking peacekeeper... a thankless job and a very expensive one.
I think over 1 million Iraqi civilians disagree with that statement ...