• 1984@lemmy.today
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    9 months ago

    Yeah I know. It’s just such a contrast between how the country markets itself VS reality. We have almost exclusively American and British TV here and it really is quite a shock when you see what the country actually is.

    But if there is a world war, we will appriciate support from the US of course. One thing they are awesome at is armies and weapons.

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      9 months ago

      One thing they are awesome at is armies and weapons.

      You say that, but we couldn’t defeat a bunch of horse-riding semi-nomads with Kalashnikovs after 20 years in Afghanistan.

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        9 months ago

        No but the US has always been bad at guerilla warfare. Same in Vietnam. Whatever nomads the US are fighting at the time are using intelligence rather than raw military power, and it’s the only way to fight a more powerful force.