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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

That's wrong, the US can eat a couple of countries just fine. The efficiency is atrocious, but the sheer inherited strategic power and logistics and stockpiles, and the amount of funding allowing to, say, build drones analogous to Russian "Geran" 100x times more expensive in the same amounts as Russia does, - all these make many wars a certain victory in the sense of destroying the other side's forces and possibly civilian population.

Anyway. Two things.

1 - In his previous term there was squeal from all sides how he's going to institute fascism right now. "The boy who cried wolves" may be a valid analogy or it may not. I think before anything like this the US will have an open change of the regime. At the same time - it's very convenient to have the land border with other countries very narrow, when instituting totalitarianism (resistance fighters, people trying to flee, all kinds of stuff), so possibly eating Mexico and Canada and doing a regime change after that is good enough.

2 - Perhaps any kind of a war is easier done after, suppose, an economic crisis happens. AI bubble burst, or something like that.