Bofferbrauer2 said:
Much better than you'd think. European armies for instance are lowly funded because military in general are not in high esteem there after WW2 and the Cold War. Unless they get blitzed however, they can quickly turn the tide by turning up the war industry (which is already turned up in the US) and would be easy to find volunteers by the metric ton if the country gets attacked, as they would know what they are fighting for (something that's not guaranteed when you join the army otherwise). As for the US... Just need to kill a couple American soldiers, and the morale of the US population tanks and want to end the hostilities immediately. The US have the material and the men, but not the morale at home for any casualties at war. And that's all the fault of Bush, both of them, as they promised bloodless carnages, wars without losses, something that's absolutely impossible to achieve. But the people soaked it up like a sponge. The spectre of Vietnam is still in their minds... |
So taking many resources from elsewhere and giving as much money, power, and influence to the military as necessary during war is typical of socialist views? That doesn't sound very equal to me. Sounds a lot more like capitalism. Incentive leading to the money, power, and influence going to what's seen as the most necessary, the military, at the time. Quite unfair and unequal if you ask me.
Based on the past European entangled wars, how well would the Europeans have fared if capitalist America stayed out of it? Would it still be Europe today? There is a fear of guns in Europe and that fear has now spread to knives so much so the Gov's are now getting involved. How well will these people handle it when there's fighter jets overhead, bullets whizzing by and tanks at their front door? If you can't handle how the GoT series is ending...
While Europe would obviously try to ramp up to fight off an invading force, how well would it do against someone like America today if they were hell bent on taking some, if not all of it over? Europe would have to toss it's socialist ideal's out the window to properly compete and hold or regain ground, where as America simply turns up the capitalist dial.
America certainly doesn't like to get into needless wars, but if the war is seen as legit I'd pray to God you're not the target or on their sh*t list. The entire country may not have been fully convinced and all in on Afghanistan or more so Iraq, but the military themselves still mowed through regardless. If you're by chance dumb enough to attack their homeland, well we know what happens to the instigating offensive attacking country.
