• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    The US won all nearly all their engagements in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The difference was the lack of public support to keep those wars and occupations going.

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      4 months ago

      You would think that the public wouldn’t support a war the US wages on the public.

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          4 months ago

          This is it.

          People keep insisting that the populace would win a war of populace against state… maybe it would, I don’t know and it’s not the problem.

          The problem is a war of half the populace against the state and the other half of the populace. Fascism is carried into power by popular demand, it’s not like one day they just appear on the levers of power and have to put up with a revolting population. They will have been put there by the population, and it will be the better armed half of the population.