• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Yes. Have you heard of fuel and supply chains? D-day nearly failed, and the allies had a staging ground right across the channel. Turns out amphibious assaults against an entrenched enemy are really hard.

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        6 months ago

        They’re not. The US has as many privately owned guns as it does people. The idea behind arming the populace was (drumroll please) to repel foreign invasions.

        Also, the military weapons we’ve stockpiled for decades, making up the largest armory in the world by a wide margin, aren’t going to vanish into thin air if you cut the pentagons budget.

        Finally, if the US faced an existential threat they’d unload on the aggressor with nukes.

        Nobody’s going to invade the mainland US. They’d be stupid to try and they’d end up getting wiped out.