• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    It is just a fucking piece of paper.

    If the judges and politicians and police don’t care and no one else can do anything then it means nothing.

    It is this or bloody revolution and that would lead to the US being invaded by multiple other countries and shit getting worse and worse.

    North Korea of America is where we are now.

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      Uggh. I can work out whether to upvote you for the accurate summary of the source of law & state power or downvote you for the utter idiocy of the invasion statement.

      Russia can’t - they’re struggling to take over a country a fifth their size and have burnt through their Soviet stockpiles.

      UK & EU certainly won’t invade, at most they’d send a peacekeeping force to protect civilians at a UN request (UN probably wouldnt pass it)

      Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

      Mexico might just on principle (payback’s a bitch) but has bugger all capacity.

      Same for South American Asian and African countries.

      That leaves China, and if you think the Chinese are stupid enough to insert themselves in your civil war and create a sole enemy for both sides to fight you have zero understanding of the Chinese strategy.

      The Chinese will wait for you all to decimate the country and each other, then come in and buy up the bits they want. Oh and invade Taiwan while y’all are busy destroying your country.

      Putin’s plan to destroy the US has worked magnificently.

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        Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

        Canada just needs to send one guy over to say “you should be our eleventh province” and most of New England will say “yes please, I’m sick of whatever shit the regressives are doing now”

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        Mexico might just on principle (payback’s a bitch) but has bugger all capacity.

        More accurately, we literally can’t be bothered. Our state of affairs doesn’t allow for a war, and by that, I mean that a huge national protest would ensue, and many politicians would strike it down for many reasons. Nobody here is interested, and after fighting narcos for so long, we’d rather have peace.

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      4 days ago

      It is this or bloody revolution and that would lead to the US being invaded by multiple other countries and shit getting worse and worse.

      No other nations are going to be invading the US, let alone multiple of them. They don’t have the logistics for it.

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        Other nations wouldn’t invade. But in the event of a civil war, you can be certain they would be sending in plenty of heavy weaponry.

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          Other nations wouldn’t invade. But in the event of a civil war, you can be certain they would be sending in plenty of heavy weaponry.

          The US has more military equipment and munitions than the next 5 ranked countries put together - why on earth would there be a need to send weapons ?

          Secondly who would be sending weapons ? Russia needs to finish their own war before they could send help to Trump (who will probably have the bulk of the reserves initially), China is unlikely to want to side with either faction, although I’m sure they’d be happy to sell “consumer” Mavic drones to both sides (a la Ukraine).

          The remaining western democracies have barely enough capacity to keep Ukraine afloat, although they would side with a pro-democracy anti-Trump faction if it garnered enough support to have a chance but with the massive stockpiles in the US being 100x what the rest of the west has it would be like pissing in the ocean.

          In the event of a civil war pro-democracy Americans need to bring military commanders on side so they can utilise existing US stocks - you have the biggest ammo and weapons dumps in the world.