Discussion about this post

User's avatar
feeder monkey's avatar

This would be a fantastic ad! And it's terrifying.

Would LOVE for someone to put this together and put it on the medias. Very well done!!!

Expand full comment
Emilio Gutierrez's avatar

Hi, I have problems with the Trafalgar and Tsushima examples. Even if France was a world power back then, British fleet had always been superior since the Spanish armada incident centuries ago, even before Trafalgar Nelson had already scored a major victory in The Nile, and even in what we can call the decline of the British Empire, in events such as WW2, the British fleet was still formidable and arguably the best navy at the start of the conflict and the second best navy at the end(just behind US Navy of course). Naval tradition in the British is very strong.

And Russian navy at no point in their history have been a top navy, Japan had already tested their fleet against the Chinese in the Yalu River.

We can see examples of how even in empires experiencing decline, their armed forces remain of high quality. The second example that comes to mind are The Spanish Tercios, even in the phase of decline of Spanish Empire, Tercios remained a formidable force that despite their defeat at Rocroi, they continued having some successes.

And, it kind of depends how much resilience a country has even after suffering major defeats. For example Rome. In both Punic Wars their armies and navies suffered catastrophic defeats. On the naval phase, Romans were lucky to be able to steal a Carthaginian ship, but in land defeats, such as Cannae. Rome time after time recovered and kept sending legions until Scipius defeated Carthage.

And here is my opinion as a guy that is not American.(I'm Mexican )Hope it's the same case with US Navy, given their tradition, the great commanding officers of WW2(btw, Nimitz should have had the full control of Pacific theatre, McArthur was such an overrated dumbass). As a non-american(Mexican here) that hates US interventionism, if I have to recognize something is that US has an incredible logistic capacity to deploy anywhere and their armed forces, even admitted my other NATO countries are pretty much the best. The only thing that can really defeat US is precisely the internal conflict and polarization, and also precisely the capitalist-consumerism system undermines your armed forces. Just look at the low recruitment rates. Either people is out of shape (unable to access the services that ensure their health and mainly Americans are opted to consume McDonalds garbage), or has decided that they no longer want to participate in eternal wars every decade,(and of course the shitty treatment that veterans receive when they return home after seeing things no man should see)

But, you probably know better given your past in the military as a SEAL

Expand full comment
4 more comments...

No posts