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Got disillusioned with shit back around ‘99 or so, got tired of rotwing arrogant ignorance, and having lived in a former Soviet republic for several years decide that the US needed its comeuppance. Now I get to watch it all happen. Maybe a good ole fashioned occupation by another country will finally break the backs of the ignorant and lazy for a while.
There isn't a country in the world that could occupy the US. The best option for the word is to just separate us like a cancer, and just forget the US exists like a "dead zone" or something.
Theoretically Canada and Mexico could both lets say China use them as a staging point. Us would in my opinion fall in a few days and the US is actually doing its best to aggro all three of them.
Im sorry, but no. Hard no, absolutely not.
It would seriously be more effective to just isolate us in a box and move on with the world.
Yep, hang back and watch as ramped corruption takes hold and guts the American military (Along with everything else), just at it gutted the Russian military (And society).
Plus we'll be fighting ourselves. If someone invades, we're fighting them.
All the US guns in circulation I think would be useless against actual military weapons/vehicles, it would be air strikes against a guy with a rifle. (maybe hit and run tactics after the fact red dawn style is when they'd be of more use).
Yeah it's big but missiles and artillery have stupid ranges now and the Chinese really aren't lacking in numbers.
The advantages I'd give the US are the F22 should be better than any fighter China has but the J-20 isn't that far away and the F22 hasn't a lot of missiles.
Also it would be very hard to move that amount of troops and equipment without the US catching on but definetly not impossible, shipping containers could probably do it.
Last advantage is I don't think China would have any interest in actually invading the US they'd just sell their dollar reserves if they wanted to do serious damage.
The US also has the first and second biggest air forces.