RE: Noteworthy News
October 30, 2021 at 12:17 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2021 at 12:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I can't stress enough that it's less an issue of bragging about (future) courageous deeds and more like scalping leftists and poc in the streets. These people aren't ridiculous, or they're not just ridiculous.
@Rev. Rye
Yeah, big modern armies are explicitly designed to fight big modern armies. The thought has been (for all of time) that a state has the most to fear from another state like itself. Might have been true once, isn't true anymore, and those big modern armies have been changing themselves to confront that fact - but it takes awhile. This was awhile back - but a specific example. The majority of people who were trying to reup in my company, during a war, were turned down. Meanwhile, they aggressively pursued mout specialists regardless of their service history or even our desire to remain on. Shittiest job you could get, and none of us wanted to do it, but that's all they wanted to spend for. Alot of us got into it for doing one thing, and mostly wound up doing some other thing - and I guess that's what transition always looks like.
With some experience in this, I doubt the us military (or any military, ultimately) with regards to it's ability to put down a local insurgency, but I don't doubt it's ability to rout a lynching mob on the field and set them fleeing in abject terror for their lives, for the rest of their lives. That's basically mowing down peasants. NP. The first 180 seconds of an actual engagement with us forces isn't something you want to be on the other side of - we don't exactly save our ammo and there isn't a huge culture of respect for the adversary and the dignity of their life. People are going to get shot on the toilet, with a missile, on purpose, for example. I still maintain that just one saw peeling out on the rotunda would have stopped jan 6 cold.
@Rev. Rye
Yeah, big modern armies are explicitly designed to fight big modern armies. The thought has been (for all of time) that a state has the most to fear from another state like itself. Might have been true once, isn't true anymore, and those big modern armies have been changing themselves to confront that fact - but it takes awhile. This was awhile back - but a specific example. The majority of people who were trying to reup in my company, during a war, were turned down. Meanwhile, they aggressively pursued mout specialists regardless of their service history or even our desire to remain on. Shittiest job you could get, and none of us wanted to do it, but that's all they wanted to spend for. Alot of us got into it for doing one thing, and mostly wound up doing some other thing - and I guess that's what transition always looks like.
With some experience in this, I doubt the us military (or any military, ultimately) with regards to it's ability to put down a local insurgency, but I don't doubt it's ability to rout a lynching mob on the field and set them fleeing in abject terror for their lives, for the rest of their lives. That's basically mowing down peasants. NP. The first 180 seconds of an actual engagement with us forces isn't something you want to be on the other side of - we don't exactly save our ammo and there isn't a huge culture of respect for the adversary and the dignity of their life. People are going to get shot on the toilet, with a missile, on purpose, for example. I still maintain that just one saw peeling out on the rotunda would have stopped jan 6 cold.
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