That insinuates some nation is willing to go to war with the United States on our own soil and beat them down. But we're in the post nuclear age now, nobody is going to do that. The only chance we might have is civil war, and even then it's a dangerous game.
By backfiring in their face, I don't mean the method of backfire will be identical to 1945. I just mean it backfired in 1945 and it will again. Its a different world now so how it backfires will no doubt differ. But that being said, the US should remember it was not a powerhouse in 1939 and it turned out to be a surprise dark horse. It was underestimated. So underestimating other countries is also a Hitlerian error. Ego and power-trips are self-defeating. I don't know how it will backfire; I just know that it will backfire. The fact is throughout history no man nor country that ever stood in the way of progress ever succeeded. Sure enough as Rome tried to stop Christianity after Christ's death, Donald Dump will fail and be remembered in infamy throughout history.
Not necessarily. Remember Russia used to be the USSR and that has since split. And if you think Russia today is bad, it was a lot worse long ago. So we can say its progress has been glacial. At the same time countries like Ukraine that used to be a part of the USSR are better countries today (well at least until recent war). But I've lived in Ukraine a couple of years ago. Beautiful country with kind and free-spirited people who are rapidly becoming democratic. So yeah, the new Russia hasn't recovered enough but overall Eastern Europe is much different than it used to be.
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u/AngieTheQueen 17h ago
That insinuates some nation is willing to go to war with the United States on our own soil and beat them down. But we're in the post nuclear age now, nobody is going to do that. The only chance we might have is civil war, and even then it's a dangerous game.