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"Invading the US would be nearly impossible because you would have to fight through the largest and best equipped armed force in the world. You would also have to fight the US military." Not sure who said that, but I got a chuckle out of it.
I wonder if in America/USA a place that there’s more guns than people doesn’t mean that there’s no civilian asides, kids and children and maybe elderly (to elder) ? And if the entire world is against it would the Geneva wouldn’t even be a thing ? So it will end as no Russian but USA style ?
My dad served aboard the USS Nimitz. He told me stories of how massive the ship was, that it was like a city on the water. He told me that there were over 5,000 people on board at any given time. As well as how the ship traveled to Europe, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and Alaska while he served on it. Spending months at sea before returning to port. The ship didn't receive refueling until 2001, alongside a refit and major systems overhaul. Over 26 years after the ship was originally commissioned. And we have 11 ships just like it. Damn.
To add to that, Ford class carriers are even bigger and iirc, they brings the US' total carrier count to 13. All nuclear. Frame of reference: there are only 20 operational true carriers on earth, only 6 countries operate true carriers at all. We have more than everyone else combined.
You mention the well armed population several times, but you neglected to mention that as a result of having such a massive military the US also has a massive veteran population. With 6% of the civilian population being Military veterans. So while there are 2.8 million people currently serving in the military, there are almost 10 times that who have served and the majority of whom would instantly stand up and put that training back to practice.
Even more importantly than them being soldiers themselves is that they could very easily teach the basics of combat to the many armed civilians. Meaning that not only would the US insurrection forces be the best armed in history they'd very likely have some actual training thanks to just how many veterans there are.
not to mention that the US armed forces are one of the few that have real life experience in combat, from Iraq to Afghanistan, we have had troops fighting for 25 years so our soldiers aren't green, we have a lot of troops with combat experience
He also forgot about the 31 amphibious assault Landing ships that the United States have that can carry 20 f-35bs by themselves alone. That is also along with 20 Ospreys and a number of attack helicopters. Oh yeah and a bunch of Marines😂😂
@@jefftucker9225 Yes, a lot of experience raping and pillaging under developed countries. Also PTSD ridden lunatic veterans can't stand to fight when they're getting spit on in the streets because of our failed govt. Our soldiers are just trigger happy thugs. Doesn't matter though, it's us or them.
Also remember that probably 80% or more of the below 30 female population would volunteer for combat service as well to fulfill their equal rights opportunities.
@@Screamn.If you cannot defend your land, you lose it. That’s just the way humanity has operated. America’s conquest of North Americans is no different than any other conquest in history.
It's also worth noting that, as 9/11 showed us, as much as we Americans are constantly at each other's throats, threat from a foreign foe would unite us pretty fast.
That was back when the United States was still white. I doubt that type of unity would happen again with the influx of non-whites into the country whether they're running across the border or coming here through legal means.
Very true. We are the dysfunctional family of the world arguing all the time, but soon as you get in the middle of it we are highly functional and now have a common enemy.
This is why Russia and China devote resources to internet trolls. They know the US can't be beat when it's together. So they use trolls the push the most devisive trash they can and push both sides to their extremes. Anyone advocating any kind of civil war or secession is a Russian or Chinese dupe or just a paid troll outright.
@@jackbaxter-williams8059yeah. After genociding the natives there were tons of everything just lying around. Even people as stupid as the average American are bound to succeed
I was talking with someone about this after Russia declared the Alaska trade void. Essentially, even if by the Grace of God you make it past 5 armies and make landfall, you'll have the misfortune of dealing with the American populace. Do you know how many people lay in bed and hope tomorrow is the opening scene to Red Dawn? More than there should be and enemy combatants will be swarmed, not because they're enemies but because they're carrying guns and tools that are difficult to get here in the US. That's right, parachute troops might as well be loot crates for the Americans who already have 110 *registered* firearms per 100 people. I'm gonna feel bad for the poor conscript that has to try and take Compton, the last thing he'll see is the window rolling down a 2011 Kia Soul
How well would the US citizenry hold together? I trust Compton more than rural USA that might quickly fragment into rival militias and don't get me started on MAGA wannabe soldier types that would quickly act so entitled until their air conditioning went out.
It’s amazing what a small cigarette can do to Appalachia and the Ozarks during the hot summer. Have them yelping and hollering their way back to the bleak bogs of the lowlands of Scotland.
They couldn't successfully invade Laos with its barely over 3 million people, mostly illiterate desperately impoverished peasants at the time. Nearly half a century later and the Lao PDR led by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is going stronger than ever, proudly espousing the superiority of Marxism-Leninism (that I thought was defeated once and for all in 1991? Silly me)
Reminder: any and all of this information is the *declassified* capabilities. Considering how much that's a joke in Habitual Line Crosser's content, I'd assume at least a 25% increase in range, speed, and general capabilities for all of the armaments.
True, though that holds for the opposition as well. Both of my parents worked in the 80s at what was then called the Foreign Technologies Division, and their job was to attempt to accurately determine foreign military capabilities. Obviously, they couldn't tell us specifics, but I do recall my mom saying that the US shouldn't get too cocky with its technical abilities. That was 40 years ago, at this point, but it is something that has stuck with me.
@@NemisCassander the problem is that several countries have claimed certain capabilities *cough* Russia *cough* but those claims have been proven incorrect over the past several years.
@@NemisCassander I disagree, our main rivals in China and Russia are constantly flaunting their newest tech and at least Russia we know for a fact is over exaggerating that techs abilities. The US really likes keeping it's newest tech close to its chest. Remember that Railgun we built like 20 years ago? Interesting how that project hasn't had a word said about it since.
The same can be said about other countries' publicized capabilities about numbers and tech, especially when it comes to nuclear warheads and submarines.
@@Three_BrainCell_Productions just barely, but the nation would be better off if healthcare was either cheaper or completely free. It's been proven to be the case, but we privatized it and don't hold large corporations accountable for anything.
That's out of date info too. The US has 13 carriers if you include both Nimitz and Ford class carriers. France is the only other country that runs nuclear carriers and they only have one. China has two Diesel carriers designed by the Russians... and they both have ski jumps on them so their fighters can actually take off. Russia has one diesel boat and it's in rough shape. The UK has 2, both diesels. India has one, again a diesel boat designed by Russia. The US has more carriers than everyone else combined!
@@Mdksupreme1but it isn’t? Currently the US has 11 in commission, France is planing to make a new one I believe to replace their current one, Russia current doesn’t have any nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and China might have the capabilities to do so in the future but they have no Nuclear powered aircraft carrier right now.
2:26 ☢️ Nuclear Triad 8:46 🛡️ Defense capabilities 10:40 🤝 Defense alliances 12:40 ⚓ U.S. Navy 20:20 ✈️ U.S. Air Force 23:30 🇨🇦 Canada 31:33 🇲🇽 Mexico 36:53 💵 Defense production 38:20 🌾 Food production 40:00 ⚡ Energy production 41:40 👥 Human resources 44:54 Conclusion
42:58 I think you meant 1 soldier for every 40 civilians there. Forty soldiers for every civilian would require 13 billion soldiers to occupy the US, about 50% greater than the entire global population.
@@hogg1220 Except his next sentence he says that with a population of 336 million it would require 8.4 million occupying soldiers, which is exactly 336/40.
the 1 soldier for every 40 doesnt even apply to the US. Because TONS of US citizens are armed. Just look at what happened to the US military. They lost to rice farmers and dudes in sandals. Now look at what happened to Russia in Ukraine. US citizens are MUCH better equipped and trained too. It should be 3-5 soldiers for every 1 armed US citizen with fully modified AR-15's, armor, drones, night vision, etc. Oh and also trucks... lots and lots of technical trucks
Interseting fact, these silos are spread as far as Mississippi. There's a small neighborhood I used to visit all the time in MS that has two *fully functional missile launch silos* as *fucking decorations*.
i think the dod releases a list of places it does nuclear research every year, purdue university is always on that list and after the list comes out every year, purdue immediately starts shouting its a mistake, we only do nuclear power research lol
lol yeah my roomate told me about some people that lived near an abandoned "house" in Wyoming I think but its front lawn was just covering for all the nukes below. these people were paid to move around the toys in the front lawn to make it look occupied.
Fun fact: America has more privately owned tanks and artillery pieces, than the Pentagon has in its inventory. Older tech, yes. But also easier to maintain and make projectiles for.
@@Galvatorrixyes because throughout history, population was the only factor determining the outcome of conflict...which explains why a tiny mongol army was able to roll over all of china in a single decade...tell me you are an ignorant keyboard warrior without telling me your an ignorant keyboard warrior 😂 EDIT: This guy is so stuhpedh that I had to come back and add some examples. The japanese f**cked china easilly with a fraction of their population. Afghanistan and vietnam have roflstomped every single world power who tried to invade them throughout history who ALWAYS had a greater population. Your population is literally just a reserve pool of manpower, and only roughly correlates with the size of your economy. china's population is overwhelmingly beyond military age, everyone who isn't actually MOBILIZED torwards the war effort is dead weight. But I realize all of these nuances are way too complicated for you to grasp 😂
@@GalvatorrixChina isn’t sending every man, woman and child to fight in America. Roughly 1/3 of Americans own guns. That means we could field an irregular force of around 100 million people. Good luck.
I agree. If people are as truly patriotic as they make these days, any invading force should expect HEAVY ground resistance. Let’s not even get started on makeshift drone-explosives.
@@Stefan_W.could also look at it the other way around. The Roman Empire survived so long because of its great bureaucracy, military and political system. In the end all Empires fall, and Rome lasted until 1453. That's more than 20 centuries.
Huge blind spot. You don't capture Denver from the north. You capture Seatle. Once you have Starbucks... the world runs off coffee, the rest of the dominos will fall.
As if Seattle is the only source of coffee. The real issue would arise if the countries we source our beans from turned on us. Peru, Brazil, All the equatorial countries really.
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@@randlebrowne2048: Huh, well UA-cam did not like the comment I made to you. It really does not like my spicy comments. I'll make another one and see what doesn't get deleted.
@@randlebrowne2048: It really depends on what 👾🛸 want with earth. If a "spicy 🚜" "🗑️land" is advantageous to their plans, then a complete _"world wide forever nap"_ would be the best course of action. If retaining the viability of the population, then a different course of action would be needed. Most likely a 💊😷 method would be used first that 🩼🤕 a majority of the population.
Imagine being a scared and shell shocked Russian all alone in the middle of a field and get your face inverted by a pissed off hillbilly with a shotgun and a 6 pack of coors light.
My dream is some Chinese guy is hiding in the outskirts of New Orleans as he hears the Cajuns start slowly approaching him from the marshes yelling “ye don’t come down to my swamp boy”
The one detail that you forgot thats becoming increasingly important, is cyber power. Both the offensive and defensive capabilities of US, vs other countries.
@@ShEsHy its kinda weird to even have it in the video, makes it feel significantly less creddible. why is the invasion force spearhead not at winnipeg in this scenario? for the same reasons mentioned about why going to denver isnt reasonable, and why winnipeg is so strategically important. minneapolis/chicago/st.louis/detroit being the main effort makes complete sense. detroit is only 100 km further from winnipeg than calgary is denver, and theres tons of actual population centers on the way. sooo the us army just easily takes winnipeg while somehow convincing the entire millions strong international invasion force to just let them have it?
@@mp40submachinegun81 I dunno, this entire video just feels way too propagandistic, nationalistic, and, honestly, childish and stupid. It's what a high schooler hopped up on US exceptionalism would present to their class near their independence day or something. In a "we're so supermegaawesome that we could take on the whole world and win" sort of manner. It's just such a ridiculous topic that is physically impossible to ever occur, so why go to such great lengths to make a video about it? Especially when it was basically already made a year ago, on this channel no less.
@@eozineable it's a fact that without nukes Russia as a country are irrelevant. Don't worry i'm also from a country with abundant natural resource with incapable people and the oligarchs running our government. But at least my country didn't bully smaller neighbour and got slapped back in the face lol.
@@park1ng- Not really, without nukes things would be different, and Russia is more willing to throw bodies than other nations, and even though it will likely lose, it can inflict significant damage
True--any scenario that involved foreign powers massing troops near the US would necessarily have to involve the US already having become extremely weak and unable to defend itself
You don't need to occupy Winnipeg in the scenario you posed, you just need the Nipigon bridge to be inoperable, it happened once and completely cut Canada in half. My comment got flagged because I wasn't specific enough about this being hypothetical.
I think he’s forgetting that there are still highways that connect northern Canada together. Although it would take longer to get supplies to the west, it would still be possible to transport supplies to Bc.
@@glenistergrotj3022I know very little about Canadian infrastructure, but I imagine that any other roadway that connects east and west Canada probably has a much lower capacity for vehicles and also probably take longer routes. They are also just as vulnerable to air raids that would render such roads inoperable.
My one college professor was an Army Ranger and taught Leadership 101. He was a cool dude. When I asked how powerful the US Military was he asked "Can you tell me the #1 airforce in the world?" I answered: The US? and he said "Correct. Can you tell me the #2 airforce in the world?" ... I didn't know... he answered himself "The US Navy"
I still don't think so it would just be a huge civil war...I think if the government turned on the people you would see a lot of defection from multiple generals and battalions and add that with all the guns people already have it would be a war for the ages
this massive defence infrastructure requires a lot of money, resources and intelligence. the american economy is not doing well even with all these massive companies doing business internationally. if the rest of the world were to invade usa, they will surely stop doing business with america, worsening the economy, which will render this infrastructure completely useless because gov cant fund it. (you wont risk your life in the military knowing you are not getting paid.)
“There are literally millions of American gun owners who have fantasized about this exact scenario every single day.” “THEM DIRTY REDS ARE HERE?! WHOOOOOO!!0
@southpaw97_ you take half of the kilometer, then add 10% of the kilometer. That will give you quick estimate into miles. For example, 300km ~ 180mi (150+30 ~180mile).
As an American, I don't fear this happening, but we are being destroyed from inside. Our political and economic situation is terrible, I'll be honest. Our people are so weak.
Economy is as good as it's ever been. Politics are only problematic because we have a divisive moron trying to demonize anyone who doesn't bow down to him.
Our economy is incredibly strong and are people are as intelligent and as strong as any in the country. If you didn't get your idiotic propaganda from Fox News and whatever other right-wing horseshit people like you get spoon fed into their minds you wouldn't think such stupid thoughts
Well this video is concerned only with the military part of "conquering" the US. Another crucial factor that determines the US top position (and military power) in the world is economy. The moment the US currency loses its value as the world's currency, the moment the US loses its partners worldwide, then all those 700+ bases will become unsustainable and your military might will slowly fade.
@@User-jr7vfOnly if we choose to sit back and do nothing while that might fades. 🤷 We could also choose to use a small fraction of our nukes to simply put ourselves back on top. 🫡
@@MrMadsci7 it doesn't work like that. If that were the case, Russia could simply use its nukes in the Ukraine war to scare the US and stop its support for Ukraine.
@@AnotherPointOfView944 How banks work: "Here's a million dollars! Now just pay me back one million and $50,000." "But there are only a million dollars in existence!" "Wilson signed you up for this. Good luck, buddy! You've entered a zero-sum game!"
Small thing to add but the main reason that diesel submarines are worse than nuclear is actually because combustion reactions require a lot of oxygen so the subs have to resurface frequently in order to get more air and that gives away their location, it’s not because they have to refuel
I was thinking about this, not in the same way (I was just wondering how they would obtain the oxygen to stay submerged for long periods of time lol idk anything about submarines), thanks for giving more info!
Seriously thank you for this video. I have really bad anxiety that can be easily triggered during discussions about stuff relating to war and apocalypse, but this has definitely reduced my worries!💕
people might often not realize (because of memes and a lot of online trolling) how impressive the US as a nation is. I'm not even American, but reading through the history of our species is more than enough to make you realize how unmatchable what America has achieved is. Not only militarily, but also in terms of economy, freedom, and human rights. It's not perfect country by any means, but compared to the closest rival in the entirety of humans history, no one has ever been anywhere near close.
@thatguycraig7650 In fairness, you can hate a country and still respect its might. Similar to how we don't really like China but their history is nothing to scoff at
It is not an island empire. Ouch, didn't you hear in the video about the 700+ military bases spread across the world? Also the US is large in size, so nothing near an island. PORTUGAL and SPAIN could we called islands when it comes to their size compared to how much land they controlled in the past. Most notably Portugal owned the entirety of Brazil, which is way bigger than Portugal mainland (Brazil about the same size as the US and China).
@@Smethells2023 Also, if the military objective was simply to delete that direction, that direction would be deleted, and we are talking about without the use of nukes.
Paratrooper 1: Okay, we landed in the middle of nowhere we should be safe to set up a forward base Paratrooper 2: I'm pretty sure I heard doom music all of the way down. Bubba-Joe: RIP AND TEAR!
In the middle of nowhere - where every other vehicle has a gun rack & every other person is a prepper/anti-something militia member. No joke that this is a dream scenario. Finally a chance to unleash all that on a definite outsider. Just a big kill zone.
A civil war? I highly doubt that its gonna happen. The U.S is still going strong, Rome fell because it couldnt keep expanding and its armies not being loyal. USSR fell because it cluldnt keep up with the U.S economically and scientifically
america since ww2 has never actual fought against any capable enemies other than 3 world nations who uses sticks and stones in comparison. Any american who likes to imagine or advertise war. are ironically the people who never experienced war and cirtainly the first once who falter. why would anyone want to invade america even? america does the perfect job ruin their own nation for their own hubris.
@@poplar2065 Pretty sure if you have to go back more than 200 years to pretend to have a point you've already lost the argument. Shout "I'm rxtarded" louder next time.
@@Mdksupreme1 I'm certainly sure of it. At least based on the current blast radius of nuclear warheads owned by foreign powers. They would need something with a larger blast radius then 50% more than anything we have at any given time. Our own policies require that they be spread out at least that far apart between silos.
JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA LET IN AT LEAST 10,000,000 ILLEGALS IN THE LAST 4 YEARS. NOT EVERYONE CAME OUT OF A MONASTERY. THE COMMUNIST ARE ALREADY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. STUPID VIDEO.
Im glad you include soft factors when it comes to these encounters. Bc a lot of the time hard factors arent enough. To use tanks as an example, hard factors being(to name a couple): speed, armor. While soft factors would include things like ammo types, engine type, logistical capabilities, etc.
To be fair, flat earth is also very populat in america. So is young earth creationism. I think it's just the total failure of the abysmal education system.
If the entire world tomorrow started war, and nukes weren't a thing. They could take the US if they put 100% effort into it over the course of decades. Like imagine every country going into a war time economy, just producing war goods. Then sending their men to SA and NA. Huge armies of soldiers from each country. Each country working together. After slugging through our Navy through attrition alone. Using all their civilian craft. Building drones. Inflatrating. Rebuilding anything we knocked out. It would be a massacre, and a war like no other. I just don't see us winning if the entire world put their mind into it with 100% effort. Second 100 year war!
@@Green_Stache_Productions I mean.. yeah. Education is kinda lackluster in most places, but if *major* parts of your population literally believe in anti-science conspiracy theories while having to take ridiculous loans to afford decent education, you cant really lump that one together with the rest^^
I just want to point out the remake of Red Dawn originally had Russia and China invading the USA. But after the movie was finished a Chinese company bought the rights to it and digitally remastered it to be North Korea.
There’s also the technological front being stuff like Microsoft, Apple, google to name a few of the bigger examples. American made companies that have products used all around the world which simply if needed could cause all those devices to suddenly become obsolete/bricked in countries not in the United States.
That's not fully true- yes, Microsoft could damage a lot of computers using auto-update if they wanted to, but many Windows computers are not being updated or connected to the internet, and Linux exists. Also, copyright laws tend to go out the window in a war, so countries could eventually make their own forks of Windows if they need to.
I don't think Einstein ever said that, and so goes for almost everything it is said that he said. See Also: Mark Twain, Ghandi, Anyone Signed, The Quote Police Side Note; I wrote out an abbreviated version of this video's thesis in a UA-cam comment a couple months ago and it nixed by the thought police.
That is speaking from ignorance. Every war will use the next generation of weapons, because no war is ever waged with total destruction in mind. Say you wipe NYC off the map, that's a waste since it is an economic center with not enough strategic value to justify the waste a multi billion dollar weapon on. And that is just one city, there are tens of thousands in many countries. So like most wars, military weapons will never be used across the vast majority of the territory. History and technology will just continue with its regular schedule.
@@techpriest6962 I don't think you understand what large-scale nuclear war would result in. Nobody survives that. You either die from the blasts, the radiation, or the decades of worldwide nuclear winter that follows.
@@techpriest6962 There were those Russian submarines Putin said could cause 'radioactive tsunamis' to kill off a population while preserving the infrastructure. But like everything coming out of Russia these days, it's 2/3rds bluster and 1/3rd f-up.
@9:51 FACT CHECK: You forgot the ‘North Warning System’ which is the joint radar system between the United States and Canada located in Canada. It consists of 11 long-range radars and 36 short-range radars. The system forms a 4,800 km (2,983 mi) long and 320 km (199 mi) wide "tripwire" stretching from Alaska to southern Labrador.
@@barethor5869 But its freshwater. That means its fresh enough to drink😂 In spanish they call it "agua dulce" Sweet water. Are you going to tell me that you're not inclined to drink something as enticing as sweet water?
Hypothetical global invasion that renders all treaties moot: What happens to all those US bases in those former treaty countries? Methinks that would provide A LOT of staging grounds to launch counterattacks against the ENTIRE EFFING WORLD. If the world tries to invade the US, THE US WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD IN RESPONSE. Send millions of troops across the border? Enjoy every country in the world suffering from immediate counter-invasions that disrupt their ability to support their invasion force like almost immediately. And the United Nations would be rendered moot, because the United Nations building exists within US territory last I saw, so any diplomatic justifications would result in UN leadership immediately getting besieged and captured by US armed forces. And since US troops are a big chunk of UN peacekeeping forces, the UN would be toothless to counter the USA because any outright aggression would immediately cause a civil war within their ranks. So yeah, even if the US has no support from the entire effing world, IT STILL WINS.
But that's one of the points on why it's effectively impossible - the instigating country would have to get all the mutual defense countries on their side. It's another incredibly hard step, and it would have to be before the invasion even began.
Only as long as the America's keeps it's head above the water economically. The 2 vast oceans also make it isolated, so it is extremely dependent on many nations around the world to fund it's military, political and economic might. If a so called "someone" was able to become a bigger economic, influence, you can strangle hold it's economics while having enough leverage to keep the nations from turning on you; you can cause it to implode in slow due constrictive time. As in, a bigger business player is in town, and all your fancy cars and houses in due time will become a liability to you to maintain around the world. Nobody has to shoot a single bullet.
the 2nd amendment is MUCH more important than both geography and military. Just look at what happened to the US military. They lost to rice farmers and dudes in sandals. And now look at Ukraine. US citizens are MUCH better equipped and trained too
Not really, the US nuclear arsenal is truly enough. I mean the only reason the US has not stomped Russia in Ukraine is because lf Russia's nuclear arsenal too. Nukes really work.
I feel like the missing part of the video is, if the US already made the entire world band together, they already fucked up I mean, in such scenario the world would have decided "I am not going to trade with you anymore", crippling the US (and the rest of the worlds economy) beforehand, making the video pointless.
An important caveat that should come with videos like these is that they depict an ideal scenario. The reality of war is that a lot doesn’t go according to plan.
This video is simply pure American propaganda. How could the crews of aircraft carriers, submarines and other ships stay several years on the oceans without being replaced and resupplied with food, especially those of nuclear submarines? Staying 3 months underwater is psychologically difficult. They resurface and they learn of the death of loved ones. OK the United States has a powerful army from the point of view of military equipment. But the rest is not following the American soldiers are known for not being in the reality of the lightning of wars. They are great warriors in the propaganda of Hollywood war films in reality whether in Vietnam 85% were drug addicts, in Somalia super armed soldiers were routed by barefoot men. In Kuwait and Iraq the only areas they occupied were their military bases. The rest they very rarely left. As for Afghanistan, for an elite army it was rather a military and humanitarian disaster as in all the countries where American imperialism intervened. Should we remember that the United States is the only country to have used two nuclear bombs on civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing 450,000 deaths; in France, the American air force killed 260,000 civilians, women, children, and the elderly. Yes, the American population is the most armed in the world, but what is it worth compared to highly trained soldiers? During the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, the American army lost around 40,000 soldiers. However, each year 30,000 to 35,000 Americans die from firearms. between a country where there are the most drug addicts in the world and the most dead, the USA will self-destruct and none of the 8 billion human beings currently on earth want to die for the 380 million Americans
42:58 The ratio for "40 soldiers for every 1 civilian in an occupied area" doesn't make sense. The ratio "40:1" is extremely unsustainable. Judging by the math, it seems like it should be reversed to "1:40" (1 soldier for every 40 civilians in an area).
You also have to Remember.....those estimates for occupation ratios are for an unarmed population. The US is literally the opposite of that, so the 40:1 Is probably more representative of what you'd need for the US. Since every single private citizen has access to guns and explosives.
@@Patson20 no, later he says something like "the US population is 336 million so the invader would need to leave behind a force of 8.4 million soldiers." 8.4 million * 40 = 336 million so the correct ratio is 1 soldier to 40 civilians. If the ratio really was 40 soldiers to 1 civilian then the force left behind for 336 US million civilians would have to be 13.44 billion which is almost double the current world population. Plus logically thinking, 40 soldiers to one civilian is just stupid and would make no sense. Why would one person need 40 soldiers to keep them in check? A single person cannot simultaneously shoot 40 other people, especially trained soldiers. The US population isn't made up of 336 million Master Chiefs
@eduardoalcazar2600 40:1 is a number the military came up with on its own after its experiences in Vietnam and the Middle East occupation. You have to remember this isn't literally a soldier staring at 40 people, it's a force calculation. And this primarily is used for pacification of a hostile, but not actively attacking population. So that means if you've got a town of 4,000 people you'd need 100 soldiers garrisoned in that town to properly pacify it and police it. You have to remember that not everyone will be actively attacking the occupying/invading force or even passively resisting them. A better example would be law enforcement, people still listen to the cops orders, surrender, and go to jail despite the fact that they outnumber the police well beyond 40:1. My town for instance has 4,500 people, but we only ever have one or two cops on duty at a time, 10 total officers. That means the occupation ratio of my town is over 400:1 citizens to police. And yet we still enforce order despite being massively outnumbered because people fear reprisal, and they know we can call additional units from outside the area if we are overwhelmed, much like a occupation force could. And sure if the town all decided let's kill the cops there's almost nothing we could actually do to stop it but history shows that when people rebel its only ever a fraction of the whole.
34:50 - The only real feasible spot on that map for an amphibious invasion is along the Texas coastline...except even that wouldn't work because it's all barrier islands.
You didn't even mention the 7 amphibious assult carriers opperated by the U.S. Marines. They are more designed to support landing troops, but can carry 20 F-35s or Harriers and have a decent range of travel. The US does not consider them full aircraft carriers but they are reletively comperable to the smaller classes of what other countries consider aircraft carriers. They absolutely could function as supporting carriers in a full out war scenario, furthering the U.S. fighter capacity at sea by almost 150 fighters.
Yea America is the only country on this planet, that will literally park a navy outside your door step if you mess with them. Floating city of death. Carrier Group is a sight to behold when you look across your waters.
It's not just him. Everyone that does these kinds of fleet comparisons tends to forget about those. They're basically what the rest of the world calls a normal sized carrier, but the USN is just so extra that they only count the supercarriers as real carriers, lol.
The amount of information packed in RealLifeLore videos is absolutely insane. I'm 18 minutes into this one and my head is spinning & still over 33 minutes remain. Incredible.
@@MikkelDevs Uncalled for. You are definitely the one with no friends. And any you think you have are keeping you around for someone rxtarded to laugh at.
From what I understand is that to get to us they'd need to cross at least one ocean (depending on how many fronts they want to fight), both of which we control very well. After that they'd need to establish supply lines (over said oceans, again, very difficult). Then they'd need to hold a significant portion of land before even attempting to push further inland (it'd pretty much be d-day all over again). Along side that a majority of all americans (not including armed forces and veterans) own and guns and can use them. Hell, some folks own entire armories, enough to equip a small town. Not to mention they'd have to cross mountain ranges either way they want to approach from. If they want to approach from land to better deal with supply line issues, they'd need to brave the candian wilderness or fight the mexican cartels.
Roman Empire, British Empire, Mongol Empire or Ottoman Empire didn't get conquered first. They started rotting from within with costs becoming uncontrollable and separatism slowly increasing.
It would have been interesting if you discussed the vulnerability that is social media, and how Russia and China are using it to divide the US. Not everything is about guns.
They only mildly exacerbate certain issues I would say. The population is becoming more aware and are starting to disagree, and lots of these disagreements are fundamental without any possibility of resolve. For instance, allowing the killing of infants is something where there can be no concessions
Love your videos, one small note: the way you pronounce "during" elicits from me a similar reaction to pulling on one of those fake gum sticks that kinda zap you that you might get as a prize at an arcade
It’s pronounced “Pew-Jet Sound” rather than “Pooh-jet” sound. Love the vids bro, I’m sure you get a ton of these kinda comments lol but “Poo” is where I had to draw the line 😂 31:15
A couple of other things to consider about that insurgency: many of them are military veterans with combat experience who've just spent the last 20 years learning how to run an insurgency, how to make improvised explosives, and they have no rules of engagement when someone steps on their land. Additionally, many of them haven't just been fantasizing about this scenario, they've been actively preparing for it. There are bunkers stocked with food, weapons, ammo, and supplies all over the country, owned by people who don't trust the US government and don't expect their help or intend to play by their rules. They'd actually be scarier to fight because they didn't sign no Geneva Convention, and if the invaders didn't wanna get blown up by IEDs and have their wounded used as bait so that snipers can pick off the reinforcements and then have their bodies booby trapped, well then they shouldn't have come.
This right here. My new dad spent several years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the man has a fully stocked basement for 4 months of hunker down time, and more sniper rifles than you can count. He makes his own ammo. And he trains people every other weekend to do the same. There's a huge network of military-grade training in the US so that even civilians and police tend to have better skills than your average foreign soldier. It'd be a real bad time to try to march through just about any US state.
@michealdrake3421 those insurgents in particular in this scenario would view the Geneva Conventions as the Geneva Checklist, as would the abominable war criminal to our north in a Canada and the world vs the US scenario
A lot of videos skirt around this subject for good reason. Bringing up the gun issue could cause controversy and demonetization in their video. The United States has more civilian owned guns than its population. That's a bad day for any invading force.
Not only the military, veterans and America’s population would they have to worry about, but in America, a lot of schools have JROTC incorporated into the school system. They may not be well-trained, but they are still somewhat trained. Incorporated into civilians, they too could help train civilians quickly. That type of training doesn’t just leave you.
Accurate. Let's not leave out one of my favorite parts in the Fallout Series is that, NOTHING would stop the US from throwing an Annex on Canada AND Mexico likely in the areas you mentioned more open for ground invasion but certainly anything close by with production and logistic ability. Methinks those places would be seized before negotiations broke down and become the battle fronts but hopefully nobody will ever know.
JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA LET IN AT LEAST 10,000,000 ILLEGALS IN THE LAST 4 YEARS. NOT EVERYONE CAME OUT OF A MONASTERY. THE COMMUNIST ARE ALREADY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. STUPID VIDEO.
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What nigacragua is hostile to us?
Wow
Nenhuma nação do mundo impossível de invadir São difícil mais não impossível
The 40% off Nebula does not work :(
Funny to watch this video on the eve of US Civil War
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln.
True. America’s biggest enemy is America.
They are destroying themselves because of their diet
exactly what's happening today
we must vote donald trump in november!
He was right (and part of the problem)
"Invading the US would be nearly impossible because you would have to fight through the largest and best equipped armed force in the world. You would also have to fight the US military."
Not sure who said that, but I got a chuckle out of it.
"A pistol in every pocket, and a rifle behind every blade of grass"
This second one is by Emperor Hirohito
So what’s happening in Colorado
@@gyob100not an invasion from a country 😂
I wonder if in America/USA a place that there’s more guns than people doesn’t mean that there’s no civilian asides, kids and children and maybe elderly (to elder) ? And if the entire world is against it would the Geneva wouldn’t even be a thing ? So it will end as no Russian but USA style ?
-Chinese paratroopers land in the middle Atlanta
-immediately robbed of all their belongings
Forreal tho 😂 and then all that Chinese gear gets sold at local pawnshops
Land? That thing would be disassembled before it hit the ground.
Bold of you to assume they had anything left to jump with as soon as they entered the Alanta Airspace
bold of you to assume they still had a plane and their organs still in their body when entering the atlanta airspace
@@evanhanchett893they are not evening making it to Georgia. You ain’t sneaking by are islands and coasts.
My dad served aboard the USS Nimitz. He told me stories of how massive the ship was, that it was like a city on the water. He told me that there were over 5,000 people on board at any given time. As well as how the ship traveled to Europe, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and Alaska while he served on it. Spending months at sea before returning to port. The ship didn't receive refueling until 2001, alongside a refit and major systems overhaul. Over 26 years after the ship was originally commissioned. And we have 11 ships just like it. Damn.
@redmarble5624 Which class, if you don't mind me asking?
@camerapasteurize7215 its a Nimitz class. She's the lead ship if that class
@gr1nder07
Awesome, thank you. I don't know that much about surface ships, my knowledge base is more around submarines.
To add to that, Ford class carriers are even bigger and iirc, they brings the US' total carrier count to 13. All nuclear. Frame of reference: there are only 20 operational true carriers on earth, only 6 countries operate true carriers at all. We have more than everyone else combined.
Was he on it when it time traveled?
You mention the well armed population several times, but you neglected to mention that as a result of having such a massive military the US also has a massive veteran population. With 6% of the civilian population being Military veterans. So while there are 2.8 million people currently serving in the military, there are almost 10 times that who have served and the majority of whom would instantly stand up and put that training back to practice.
Even more importantly than them being soldiers themselves is that they could very easily teach the basics of combat to the many armed civilians. Meaning that not only would the US insurrection forces be the best armed in history they'd very likely have some actual training thanks to just how many veterans there are.
not to mention that the US armed forces are one of the few that have real life experience in combat, from Iraq to Afghanistan, we have had troops fighting for 25 years so our soldiers aren't green, we have a lot of troops with combat experience
He also forgot about the 31 amphibious assault Landing ships that the United States have that can carry 20 f-35bs by themselves alone. That is also along with 20 Ospreys and a number of attack helicopters. Oh yeah and a bunch of Marines😂😂
@@jefftucker9225 Yes, a lot of experience raping and pillaging under developed countries. Also PTSD ridden lunatic veterans can't stand to fight when they're getting spit on in the streets because of our failed govt. Our soldiers are just trigger happy thugs. Doesn't matter though, it's us or them.
Also remember that probably 80% or more of the below 30 female population would volunteer for combat service as well to fulfill their equal rights opportunities.
They're surrounded with Canadians to the north, Mexicans to the south, and fish to west and east, who's going to invade, Poseidon?
Mars. Thats why we're trying to invade it first.
Nobody’s pulling a D DAY on America lol
Inb4 America's enemies give sacrifice to Poseidon and successfully conquer it
Underneath from China.
And also armed US citizens with hundreds of millions of guns
The U.S. basically got the best starting location imaginable.
Had to earn that. & It helps that the states are united and not their own countries. Otherwise we'd be in the same position as the rest of the
world
No they didn't. Or, I mean, they did a bit, the UK has lots of advantages.
@@krufty47 If by "earn", you mean "steal", then yeah.
@@Screamn.If you cannot defend your land, you lose it. That’s just the way humanity has operated. America’s conquest of North Americans is no different than any other conquest in history.
ehhh, safest we'll say
It's also worth noting that, as 9/11 showed us, as much as we Americans are constantly at each other's throats, threat from a foreign foe would unite us pretty fast.
At that moment, left or right, it will not matter.
That was back when the United States was still white. I doubt that type of unity would happen again with the influx of non-whites into the country whether they're running across the border or coming here through legal means.
Very true. We are the dysfunctional family of the world arguing all the time, but soon as you get in the middle of it we are highly functional and now have a common enemy.
It would also bankrupt you and make you take in even more refugees. Ozarks and Appalachia isn’t going to stay Scotch-Irish forever.
This is why Russia and China devote resources to internet trolls. They know the US can't be beat when it's together. So they use trolls the push the most devisive trash they can and push both sides to their extremes. Anyone advocating any kind of civil war or secession is a Russian or Chinese dupe or just a paid troll outright.
The US is what happens after you snowball in the later eras of a CIV game
I hate it but you're correct.
Every gamer would pick the us. It's just op. No wonder that so many ppl want to come here. Expletive
@@jackbaxter-williams8059yeah. After genociding the natives there were tons of everything just lying around. Even people as stupid as the average American are bound to succeed
Slava TSMC 🇹🇼
Lmao real
The US is not Goku.
“The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest is the US Navy” outsiders are cooked bro😭
Lucky for any opponents the US would face in this, or any, scenario that the marines don’t use the war crime with wings that is the F-22 Raptor
@@MissStargazer95the f22 is a war crime?
An American defeat will not be because of its military, just its bills.
Lost the war they started in Vietnam though..
@@MissStargazer95 what do you mean about the f22?
I was talking with someone about this after Russia declared the Alaska trade void. Essentially, even if by the Grace of God you make it past 5 armies and make landfall, you'll have the misfortune of dealing with the American populace. Do you know how many people lay in bed and hope tomorrow is the opening scene to Red Dawn? More than there should be and enemy combatants will be swarmed, not because they're enemies but because they're carrying guns and tools that are difficult to get here in the US. That's right, parachute troops might as well be loot crates for the Americans who already have 110 *registered* firearms per 100 people.
I'm gonna feel bad for the poor conscript that has to try and take Compton, the last thing he'll see is the window rolling down a 2011 Kia Soul
Not the Kia Soul 😂
"parachute troops might as well be loot crates for the Americans" That's the best line I've heard in a long time lol.
The poor man sees the kia soul and kisses his soul goodbye
How well would the US citizenry hold together? I trust Compton more than rural USA that might quickly fragment into rival militias and don't get me started on MAGA wannabe soldier types that would quickly act so entitled until their air conditioning went out.
this is one of my favourite comments in all of youtube, oh my god
Paratroopers landing in the middle of the Appalachian mountains are about to witness their own Vietnam
Then the Russians hear banjo music 😅😅
They would wish they were in Vietnam at that point.
It’s amazing what a small cigarette can do to Appalachia and the Ozarks during the hot summer. Have them yelping and hollering their way back to the bleak bogs of the lowlands of Scotland.
You know who could successfully invade the United States?
The United States
There’s a video talking about how the US nearly ended up accidentally nuking itself..twice so yeah…
@@ToxicCatt-y7c I was referring to the civil war but yea that works too
Depends entirely on where you start from.
Already happening. Being done by CNN and Fox News.
They couldn't successfully invade Laos with its barely over 3 million people, mostly illiterate desperately impoverished peasants at the time. Nearly half a century later and the Lao PDR led by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is going stronger than ever, proudly espousing the superiority of Marxism-Leninism (that I thought was defeated once and for all in 1991? Silly me)
Reminder: any and all of this information is the *declassified* capabilities. Considering how much that's a joke in Habitual Line Crosser's content, I'd assume at least a 25% increase in range, speed, and general capabilities for all of the armaments.
They still couldn’t even conquer Afghanistan after over a decade.
True, though that holds for the opposition as well. Both of my parents worked in the 80s at what was then called the Foreign Technologies Division, and their job was to attempt to accurately determine foreign military capabilities. Obviously, they couldn't tell us specifics, but I do recall my mom saying that the US shouldn't get too cocky with its technical abilities. That was 40 years ago, at this point, but it is something that has stuck with me.
@@NemisCassander the problem is that several countries have claimed certain capabilities *cough* Russia *cough* but those claims have been proven incorrect over the past several years.
@@NemisCassander I disagree, our main rivals in China and Russia are constantly flaunting their newest tech and at least Russia we know for a fact is over exaggerating that techs abilities. The US really likes keeping it's newest tech close to its chest. Remember that Railgun we built like 20 years ago? Interesting how that project hasn't had a word said about it since.
The same can be said about other countries' publicized capabilities about numbers and tech, especially when it comes to nuclear warheads and submarines.
Reallifelore: "And on top of that..."
Me: "Stop it! He's already dead!"
Reallifelore: continues to beat the already dead horse.
Does Camel Smoke Cigarettes 🚬🐪❓
Russia, China, North Korea: Please look at my medical bracelet…
@@KnightlyNerdandDork So what if we dont have free heathcare, it still works out for us,
@@Three_BrainCell_Productionsuntil they make a virus that targets fat people (I’m not being snarky, I genuinely believe it’s plausible)
@@Three_BrainCell_Productions just barely, but the nation would be better off if healthcare was either cheaper or completely free. It's been proven to be the case, but we privatized it and don't hold large corporations accountable for anything.
"They're 12 nuclear aircraft carrier in the world.
Russia has none
France has one.
-Alexander Hamilton- THE US HAS THE OTHER ELEVEN"
That's out of date info too. The US has 13 carriers if you include both Nimitz and Ford class carriers.
France is the only other country that runs nuclear carriers and they only have one.
China has two Diesel carriers designed by the Russians... and they both have ski jumps on them so their fighters can actually take off.
Russia has one diesel boat and it's in rough shape.
The UK has 2, both diesels.
India has one, again a diesel boat designed by Russia.
The US has more carriers than everyone else combined!
Deranged and false comment
@@Mdksupreme1but it isn’t? Currently the US has 11 in commission, France is planing to make a new one I believe to replace their current one, Russia current doesn’t have any nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and China might have the capabilities to do so in the future but they have no Nuclear powered aircraft carrier right now.
@@Mdksupreme1you mirror your own statement
Russia don't need aircraft carrier when Russia has more nukes than any nation in the world
2:26 ☢️ Nuclear Triad
8:46 🛡️ Defense capabilities
10:40 🤝 Defense alliances
12:40 ⚓ U.S. Navy
20:20 ✈️ U.S. Air Force
23:30 🇨🇦 Canada
31:33 🇲🇽 Mexico
36:53 💵 Defense production
38:20 🌾 Food production
40:00 ⚡ Energy production
41:40 👥 Human resources
44:54 Conclusion
Thanks 👍
Lots of civilian gun owners (more guns than people in Murica)! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 What's your point?
I saw sold after the nuclear explanation, then he kept going
@@HatTrkPatrk means when they come to shore we’re all pulling up like Rambo
"You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
Isoroku Yamamoto
I just watched midway
Good line but it’s not a real quote.
Isn't this a fake quote?
@@Skullking489 yes
Hmm, my EMP attack comment got deleted. Point is those rifles are useless when everyone is dead.
42:58 I think you meant 1 soldier for every 40 civilians there. Forty soldiers for every civilian would require 13 billion soldiers to occupy the US, about 50% greater than the entire global population.
In an occupied area. Not an entire country. The point is that no one is able to put 40 soldiers to 1 in America.
@@hogg1220 Except his next sentence he says that with a population of 336 million it would require 8.4 million occupying soldiers, which is exactly 336/40.
+ the fact that most Americans are armed too
I don't watch everything but feel like RLL is going downhill. Definitely should have been an easy catch with a proper editing team.
the 1 soldier for every 40 doesnt even apply to the US. Because TONS of US citizens are armed. Just look at what happened to the US military. They lost to rice farmers and dudes in sandals. Now look at what happened to Russia in Ukraine. US citizens are MUCH better equipped and trained too. It should be 3-5 soldiers for every 1 armed US citizen with fully modified AR-15's, armor, drones, night vision, etc. Oh and also trucks... lots and lots of technical trucks
Interseting fact, these silos are spread as far as Mississippi. There's a small neighborhood I used to visit all the time in MS that has two *fully functional missile launch silos* as *fucking decorations*.
i think the dod releases a list of places it does nuclear research every year, purdue university is always on that list and after the list comes out every year, purdue immediately starts shouting its a mistake, we only do nuclear power research lol
lol yeah my roomate told me about some people that lived near an abandoned "house" in Wyoming I think but its front lawn was just covering for all the nukes below. these people were paid to move around the toys in the front lawn to make it look occupied.
Fun fact: America has more privately owned tanks and artillery pieces, than the Pentagon has in its inventory. Older tech, yes. But also easier to maintain and make projectiles for.
wtf!😯
Not really, old equipment doesnt have factory ready parts anymore. Also civillian owned tanks require the barrel be filled with concrete
Source?
Who has them? Source?
Most of them don’t have a functional gun though
"There will be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Yamamoto wasn't lying.
As invasion scenarios go, that represents the best possible odds for the invaders, too.
333.3 million people (America) VS 1.412 billion people. China would walk across the US with a lawnmower
@@Galvatorrixyes because throughout history, population was the only factor determining the outcome of conflict...which explains why a tiny mongol army was able to roll over all of china in a single decade...tell me you are an ignorant keyboard warrior without telling me your an ignorant keyboard warrior 😂
EDIT: This guy is so stuhpedh that I had to come back and add some examples. The japanese f**cked china easilly with a fraction of their population. Afghanistan and vietnam have roflstomped every single world power who tried to invade them throughout history who ALWAYS had a greater population. Your population is literally just a reserve pool of manpower, and only roughly correlates with the size of your economy. china's population is overwhelmingly beyond military age, everyone who isn't actually MOBILIZED torwards the war effort is dead weight. But I realize all of these nuances are way too complicated for you to grasp 😂
@@Galvatorrix Then why don't they go ahead and invade Taiwan?
@@GalvatorrixChina isn’t sending every man, woman and child to fight in America. Roughly 1/3 of Americans own guns. That means we could field an irregular force of around 100 million people. Good luck.
if a mainland invasion ever materialized im pretty sure gun stores would just begin handing out rifles like candy
I agree. If people are as truly patriotic as they make these days, any invading force should expect HEAVY ground resistance. Let’s not even get started on makeshift drone-explosives.
I’ll paraphrase him , American civilians would adopt a try me mother effer attitude.
3 reasons...
* Two Oceans with populated coasts.
* Lots of nukes.
* Guns, guns, guns, and more guns.
Don’t forget the millions of veterans that would happily defend their country again.
@@i.am.heather just being completely honest the older veterans might not be much help in combat
This video and all the graphics blew my mind in how detailed you went. Thank you for all your content!
hahahahahhaha
The Roman Empire was destroyed from within. Barbarians only came to take the spoils.
Jan 6th
@Stefan_W. It is not the same seeing as how that was almost 2k years ago
@@Soraviel and?
wrong the Roman were weaken from constant attack from different frontier and it was one of the key factor in downfall of the Roman empire
@@Stefan_W.could also look at it the other way around. The Roman Empire survived so long because of its great bureaucracy, military and political system. In the end all Empires fall, and Rome lasted until 1453. That's more than 20 centuries.
Huge blind spot. You don't capture Denver from the north. You capture Seatle. Once you have Starbucks... the world runs off coffee, the rest of the dominos will fall.
not that funny
With that logic, Utah is invincible.
@@Thatshistoryright
Where is Postum manufactured?
You fool! You utter buffoon! We still have Dunkin and American runs on Dunkin!
As if Seattle is the only source of coffee. The real issue would arise if the countries we source our beans from turned on us. Peru, Brazil, All the equatorial countries really.
"millions of well armed civilians who have fantasized about this exact scenario"
You're god damn right :P
you're adorable
Yes
As a senior citizen I would like to commend you for adjusting the volume on your videos to the loud side. I have a windows computer and I am hard of hearing. Without hearing aids I have to set the volume to the max at 100 and at 70 with hearing aids in. Today with hearing aids in I set your video to 55. It is much easier for someone without hearing aids to adjust their volume down than it is for me to raise my volume so thank you. Also, your content and delivery is exceptional and your voice is strong. Keep up the good work and thank you for your exceptional content and delivery.
are you the
Hope your hearing gets better one day!
lol Glad I'm not the only one who has to do this.
More videos should do this. Btw, there are add ons for your web browser that lets you boost the volume past 100%.
If you press the "c" button while watching a UA-cam video, automatically generated captions will show up, so you can get subtitles!
So, _this_ is why aliens in movies always invade America first!
Yeah, this video claims that nobody can ever invade the US. The next question would be... Can aliens invade and hold the US?
@@User-jr7vf Destroy from orbit? Yes. Actually land and conquer on the ground? Unlikely.
Honestly? This is the first good as hell reason I've heard to explain that canonically
@@randlebrowne2048:
Huh, well UA-cam did not like the comment I made to you. It really does not like my spicy comments. I'll make another one and see what doesn't get deleted.
@@randlebrowne2048:
It really depends on what 👾🛸 want with earth.
If a "spicy 🚜" "🗑️land" is advantageous to their plans, then a complete _"world wide forever nap"_ would be the best course of action.
If retaining the viability of the population, then a different course of action would be needed. Most likely a 💊😷 method would be used first that 🩼🤕 a majority of the population.
Imagine being a scared and shell shocked Russian all alone in the middle of a field and get your face inverted by a pissed off hillbilly with a shotgun and a 6 pack of coors light.
Let’s get it right. A hillbilly is going to have a case of Natty Light.
My dream is some Chinese guy is hiding in the outskirts of New Orleans as he hears the Cajuns start slowly approaching him from the marshes yelling “ye don’t come down to my swamp boy”
Moonshine
AMEN BROTHER
@@OmwKirz you encounter a Florida man and your gun jams.
The one detail that you forgot thats becoming increasingly important, is cyber power. Both the offensive and defensive capabilities of US, vs other countries.
i can’t believe this video escalated to the u.s. capture of winnipeg and there’s still 20 minutes left
Imagined Winnipeg residents running to there windows just to check when they got mentioned.😬
@@huntz3215really just called me out 😭
I mean, it's an hour-long video extrapolated from just one word; location. Of course they had to asspull ridiculous scenarios to fill the air.
@@ShEsHy its kinda weird to even have it in the video, makes it feel significantly less creddible. why is the invasion force spearhead not at winnipeg in this scenario? for the same reasons mentioned about why going to denver isnt reasonable, and why winnipeg is so strategically important. minneapolis/chicago/st.louis/detroit being the main effort makes complete sense. detroit is only 100 km further from winnipeg than calgary is denver, and theres tons of actual population centers on the way.
sooo the us army just easily takes winnipeg while somehow convincing the entire millions strong international invasion force to just let them have it?
@@mp40submachinegun81 I dunno, this entire video just feels way too propagandistic, nationalistic, and, honestly, childish and stupid. It's what a high schooler hopped up on US exceptionalism would present to their class near their independence day or something. In a "we're so supermegaawesome that we could take on the whole world and win" sort of manner.
It's just such a ridiculous topic that is physically impossible to ever occur, so why go to such great lengths to make a video about it? Especially when it was basically already made a year ago, on this channel no less.
"Day 820 of the 3-day special military operation" has got to be the shortest, sharpest slap in the face RLL has ever given the Russian government.
Well its a slap based on inaccurate information, so not really
@@eozineablelol keep crying
@@eozineable it's a fact that without nukes Russia as a country are irrelevant. Don't worry i'm also from a country with abundant natural resource with incapable people and the oligarchs running our government. But at least my country didn't bully smaller neighbour and got slapped back in the face lol.
@eozineable The only inaccurate thing about it is that we're at 913 days into the invasion now 😂
@@park1ng- Not really, without nukes things would be different, and Russia is more willing to throw bodies than other nations, and even though it will likely lose, it can inflict significant damage
The real question one should ask is “What conditions would lead a foreign power to invade the United States?”
True--any scenario that involved foreign powers massing troops near the US would necessarily have to involve the US already having become extremely weak and unable to defend itself
Jealousy
In short: "What could possibly lead the whole world to commit suicide together?"
Completely losing all sense of self preservation
The US is already being invaded by the 3rd world with the help of Biden and Kamala.
Enemy soldiers: *Land on the coast
20 year old wearing a Master Chief costume: *”YOU”*
"Tonight....you"'- some sick young man wearing a hand banana costume
You don't need to occupy Winnipeg in the scenario you posed, you just need the Nipigon bridge to be inoperable, it happened once and completely cut Canada in half.
My comment got flagged because I wasn't specific enough about this being hypothetical.
The censorship has gotten out of control.
@@williamyoung9401it got out of control years ago, only recently have the normies noticed.
so you can literally throw Canada into crisis with one bomb, and it doesn't even have to be nuclear.
I think he’s forgetting that there are still highways that connect northern Canada together. Although it would take longer to get supplies to the west, it would still be possible to transport supplies to Bc.
@@glenistergrotj3022I know very little about Canadian infrastructure, but I imagine that any other roadway that connects east and west Canada probably has a much lower capacity for vehicles and also probably take longer routes.
They are also just as vulnerable to air raids that would render such roads inoperable.
Reason 1: Everyone owns a gun
Reason 2: we have florida men
Because civilian guns can stop modern military equipment, like missiles, drones, and smart bombs... 🙄
@@williamyoung9401 you must be fun at parties
@@williamyoung9401tell that to the Viet Cong
@@satirical_snake Bold of you to think they even are invited to parties in the first place.
Texas*
Bro, this video is basicly patriotic viagra 🇺🇸
And I like it so much! God bless America!
USA! USA!
Stop. I can’t get any harder.
I was rock solid this entire video
We can still be defeated through EMP attack.
My one college professor was an Army Ranger and taught Leadership 101. He was a cool dude. When I asked how powerful the US Military was he asked "Can you tell me the #1 airforce in the world?" I answered: The US? and he said "Correct. Can you tell me the #2 airforce in the world?" ... I didn't know... he answered himself "The US Navy"
All this video goes to show is that if the USA suddenly turned for the worst politically speaking, we'd all be completely fucked.
No better friend, no worse enemy.
@@matt291 Well said.
I still don't think so it would just be a huge civil war...I think if the government turned on the people you would see a lot of defection from multiple generals and battalions and add that with all the guns people already have it would be a war for the ages
this massive defence infrastructure requires a lot of money, resources and intelligence. the american economy is not doing well even with all these massive companies doing business internationally.
if the rest of the world were to invade usa, they will surely stop doing business with america, worsening the economy, which will render this infrastructure completely useless because gov cant fund it.
(you wont risk your life in the military knowing you are not getting paid.)
Just think what we would have to do to make the world think uniting to attack the US homeland was the best possible course of action
“There are literally millions of American gun owners who have fantasized about this exact scenario every single day.”
“THEM DIRTY REDS ARE HERE?! WHOOOOOO!!0
WTF IS A KILOMETER???? 🦅🦅🦅🦅
@@southpaw97_, 0.621 miles lol
@@southpaw97_ 1000 meters i hope this helps
@@southpaw97_ WTF is a mile 🦅 🦅 🦅🦅 (us does not have reichsaddler)
@southpaw97_ you take half of the kilometer, then add 10% of the kilometer. That will give you quick estimate into miles. For example, 300km ~ 180mi (150+30 ~180mile).
As an American, I don't fear this happening, but we are being destroyed from inside. Our political and economic situation is terrible, I'll be honest. Our people are so weak.
Economy is as good as it's ever been. Politics are only problematic because we have a divisive moron trying to demonize anyone who doesn't bow down to him.
Ones word: florida
If they people by some miracle don’t get ya, Mother Nature will screw you over.
@@Baixo_tagsFlorida is hell on earth. The most fucked up US state by far.
Wow, you’re cheerful.
Our economy is incredibly strong and are people are as intelligent and as strong as any in the country. If you didn't get your idiotic propaganda from Fox News and whatever other right-wing horseshit people like you get spoon fed into their minds you wouldn't think such stupid thoughts
This video ALMOST makes me want to extend my contract. 😂
As an American I truly get off on the amount of videos telling me that my country is only threatened by itself.
Hmm… only the most dangerous country in the world is your enemy. Doesn’t seem good to me
Well this video is concerned only with the military part of "conquering" the US. Another crucial factor that determines the US top position (and military power) in the world is economy. The moment the US currency loses its value as the world's currency, the moment the US loses its partners worldwide, then all those 700+ bases will become unsustainable and your military might will slowly fade.
@@User-jr7vfOnly if we choose to sit back and do nothing while that might fades. 🤷 We could also choose to use a small fraction of our nukes to simply put ourselves back on top. 🫡
@@MrMadsci7 it doesn't work like that. If that were the case, Russia could simply use its nukes in the Ukraine war to scare the US and stop its support for Ukraine.
Sinaloan Cartel: Por Favor Gringo, hold our TEQUILAs 🥃
Spending over $900 billion a year should just about cover it
$900 billion of which you dont actually have. You just borrow it from Japan, China and Europe, along with the other $36 Trillion you cant pay back.
@@AnotherPointOfView944fun facts every county in the world is in debt. No one has the money. It’s about power not funds
@@AnotherPointOfView944 How banks work:
"Here's a million dollars! Now just pay me back one million and $50,000."
"But there are only a million dollars in existence!"
"Wilson signed you up for this. Good luck, buddy! You've entered a zero-sum game!"
@@AnotherPointOfView944 Welcome to modern economy, nice try tho
@@AnotherPointOfView944You don’t have to pay back countries once they’ve been conquered. 😂
Small thing to add but the main reason that diesel submarines are worse than nuclear is actually because combustion reactions require a lot of oxygen so the subs have to resurface frequently in order to get more air and that gives away their location, it’s not because they have to refuel
I was thinking about this, not in the same way (I was just wondering how they would obtain the oxygen to stay submerged for long periods of time lol idk anything about submarines), thanks for giving more info!
*just* because they have to refuel
Seriously thank you for this video. I have really bad anxiety that can be easily triggered during discussions about stuff relating to war and apocalypse, but this has definitely reduced my worries!💕
Playing earth map in Civ and starting in the US is a good way to see how OP the geography is.
people might often not realize (because of memes and a lot of online trolling) how impressive the US as a nation is. I'm not even American, but reading through the history of our species is more than enough to make you realize how unmatchable what America has achieved is. Not only militarily, but also in terms of economy, freedom, and human rights. It's not perfect country by any means, but compared to the closest rival in the entirety of humans history, no one has ever been anywhere near close.
Thank you 😁 The whole world seems to hate us, it's always nice when someone doesn't
@thatguycraig7650 In fairness, you can hate a country and still respect its might. Similar to how we don't really like China but their history is nothing to scoff at
@@derpidius6306 yea your in that group of everyone hates us. See I was trying to be nice and now you just HAVE to come in and be rude.
@@thatguycraig7650 I never said I hated the US, I said hating the US and respecting it aren't mutually exclusive, both feelings can co-exist
@@derpidius6306 my bad then. Thought you were trying to say OP actually hates us or something.
12:37 so THAT'S why the US is unbeatable... they secretly invented Minecraft Redstone to make TNT dupers
I can’t imagine the amount of research you did for this video. Credit where it’s due.
United States is an island empire but of continental size with an invincible military and an armed population.
It is not an island empire. Ouch, didn't you hear in the video about the 700+ military bases spread across the world? Also the US is large in size, so nothing near an island. PORTUGAL and SPAIN could we called islands when it comes to their size compared to how much land they controlled in the past. Most notably Portugal owned the entirety of Brazil, which is way bigger than Portugal mainland (Brazil about the same size as the US and China).
@@User-jr7vfhe’s being poetic; not literal, relax.
@@User-jr7vf brazil is actually bigger than the US
@@Smethells2023 hahahah! That's because you haven't understood that the strategice objective is money and power, both of which are seized
@@Smethells2023 Also, if the military objective was simply to delete that direction, that direction would be deleted, and we are talking about without the use of nukes.
"And finally there's Area 51, which no one knows what sort of horrors could be deployed from that base."
We have a reason to be called "The Final Boss of Planet Earth"
Nobody calls you that
@ReverZe83 I never said ME, I said "We" as in us Americans, because I'm also American
Pay better attention
@@ReverZe83 If aliens invaded Earth, they'd be dealing with the US president as Earth's highest leader, not the UN Secretary-General
I love how dramatic you get in your videos. It’s awesome
Paratrooper 1: Okay, we landed in the middle of nowhere we should be safe to set up a forward base
Paratrooper 2: I'm pretty sure I heard doom music all of the way down.
Bubba-Joe: RIP AND TEAR!
Imagine them landing in the Everglades. Worry about gators and The Florida Man himself🤣
In the middle of nowhere - where every other vehicle has a gun rack & every other person is a prepper/anti-something militia member. No joke that this is a dream scenario. Finally a chance to unleash all that on a definite outsider.
Just a big kill zone.
@@rodolfoalas3663”here we see an invading Russian soldier one lucky shot from this guy will kill me instantly, YOINK”
When you hear the banjo it’s already over.
@@nato5323FISHINGARRET
The US is not immune to civil war. Many countries and empires were toppled from within. Rome, Soviet Union.
Most Chinese dynasties, Mongols, most Muslim califades, European colonial empires.
Even Targaryens!
Rome was not toppled from within. It was weakened from within, then toppled from the outside.
A civil war? I highly doubt that its gonna happen. The U.S is still going strong, Rome fell because it couldnt keep expanding and its armies not being loyal. USSR fell because it cluldnt keep up with the U.S economically and scientifically
@@betin731 So it was toppled within but more steps lol
Are we gonna talk about how quick our narrator spat those country names at 22:26?
Cause I think he watched Animaniacs and said "bet".
The World: "we would never try to invade you." MERICA: "We like to imagine you trying."
Said noone ever :D
Wait until all of your houses are bought for pennies by the CCP. Honk Honk, Beep Beep! Trump daddy will save us lolol.
america since ww2 has never actual fought against any capable enemies other than 3 world nations who uses sticks and stones in comparison. Any american who likes to imagine or advertise war. are ironically the people who never experienced war and cirtainly the first once who falter. why would anyone want to invade america even? america does the perfect job ruin their own nation for their own hubris.
@@poplar2065 Pretty sure if you have to go back more than 200 years to pretend to have a point you've already lost the argument.
Shout "I'm rxtarded" louder next time.
@@Angryblonde vietnam cant invade us lol
The video calls them "clusters" of land based missile silos. However, each silo is spread out far enough that no two silos can be hit by one warhead.
Cool
You sure about that?
@@Mdksupreme1 I'm certainly sure of it. At least based on the current blast radius of nuclear warheads owned by foreign powers. They would need something with a larger blast radius then 50% more than anything we have at any given time. Our own policies require that they be spread out at least that far apart between silos.
The great powers don’t get destroyed by invaders. They get destroyed by themselves
America has the second longest lived government in history behind the British.
I’m not worried.
JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA LET IN AT LEAST 10,000,000 ILLEGALS IN THE LAST 4 YEARS. NOT EVERYONE CAME OUT OF A MONASTERY. THE COMMUNIST ARE ALREADY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. STUPID VIDEO.
With a little help from outside.
indeed, China’s days are numbered, how much ling they can on? 20 years, 30?
Too bad we’re better keep coping
Im glad you include soft factors when it comes to these encounters. Bc a lot of the time hard factors arent enough.
To use tanks as an example, hard factors being(to name a couple): speed, armor. While soft factors would include things like ammo types, engine type, logistical capabilities, etc.
The American fantasy of fighting an insurgency campaign against an occupier is not a exageration.
Like the Roman Empire, i think about it everyday.
Yes this one
The Entire World: "Maybe if we jump him we can finally beat him!"
America: "Nah, I'd win."
America: lol
We have "Tom(ahawk) Cruise Missiles", once we develop "Keanu Reeves Missiles" it's really "game over"
Sinaloan and Jalisco Cartels: Ayy Gringo, hold our TEQUILAs 🥃
Nukes go brrrr. You can still destroy it easily
Honestly not even. The world working together could absolutely destroy the US just by overwhelming numbers alone.
This is why conspiracy theories about hollow earth and space are so popular in the US. It's the only two directions that could threaten the country.
To be fair, flat earth is also very populat in america. So is young earth creationism. I think it's just the total failure of the abysmal education system.
If the entire world tomorrow started war, and nukes weren't a thing.
They could take the US if they put 100% effort into it over the course of decades.
Like imagine every country going into a war time economy, just producing war goods. Then sending their men to SA and NA. Huge armies of soldiers from each country. Each country working together.
After slugging through our Navy through attrition alone. Using all their civilian craft. Building drones. Inflatrating. Rebuilding anything we knocked out.
It would be a massacre, and a war like no other. I just don't see us winning if the entire world put their mind into it with 100% effort.
Second 100 year war!
@@Yamyatos TBF the education system in most countries sucks as well. It's just that it's gotten really bad in the US
@@Green_Stache_Productions I mean.. yeah. Education is kinda lackluster in most places, but if *major* parts of your population literally believe in anti-science conspiracy theories while having to take ridiculous loans to afford decent education, you cant really lump that one together with the rest^^
@@Green_Stache_Productionsbecause the political and commercial elites need -workers- voters, not thinkers and leaders.
43:00 he said this backwards, right? 40 soldiers for every one civilian? That’d be impossible.
I just want to point out the remake of Red Dawn originally had Russia and China invading the USA. But after the movie was finished a Chinese company bought the rights to it and digitally remastered it to be North Korea.
Why does this video feel a bit like a kid telling you his brother is so strong no one in the universe can ever defeat him
It kinda does feel like a "well...duh" kinda of video
Same vibes for sure. I like it
God Bless The USA 🇺🇸 Jesus is Lord 🙏
well it is true. If the US falls it will be because of the economy, not an invasion.
@@johnrevelation37 🤣
There’s also the technological front being stuff like Microsoft, Apple, google to name a few of the bigger examples. American made companies that have products used all around the world which simply if needed could cause all those devices to suddenly become obsolete/bricked in countries not in the United States.
That's not fully true- yes, Microsoft could damage a lot of computers using auto-update if they wanted to, but many Windows computers are not being updated or connected to the internet, and Linux exists. Also, copyright laws tend to go out the window in a war, so countries could eventually make their own forks of Windows if they need to.
@@henryfleischer404 Microsoft has already been practicing damaging computers with updates for decades now!
@@InsomniacRocker I know, I was a bit scared when I booted up Windows for the first time in 6 months yesterday.
i think thats one of the reasons many countries will not use merica IT stuff
Very informative video. Everytime
""I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"" - A.Einstein
I don't think Einstein ever said that, and so goes for almost everything it is said that he said.
See Also: Mark Twain, Ghandi, Anyone
Signed, The Quote Police
Side Note; I wrote out an abbreviated version of this video's thesis in a UA-cam comment a couple months ago and it nixed by the thought police.
The weapon in WWIII is information
That is speaking from ignorance.
Every war will use the next generation of weapons, because no war is ever waged with total destruction in mind. Say you wipe NYC off the map, that's a waste since it is an economic center with not enough strategic value to justify the waste a multi billion dollar weapon on.
And that is just one city, there are tens of thousands in many countries.
So like most wars, military weapons will never be used across the vast majority of the territory.
History and technology will just continue with its regular schedule.
@@techpriest6962 I don't think you understand what large-scale nuclear war would result in.
Nobody survives that. You either die from the blasts, the radiation, or the decades of worldwide nuclear winter that follows.
@@techpriest6962 There were those Russian submarines Putin said could cause 'radioactive tsunamis' to kill off a population while preserving the infrastructure. But like everything coming out of Russia these days, it's 2/3rds bluster and 1/3rd f-up.
@9:51 FACT CHECK: You forgot the ‘North Warning System’ which is the joint radar system between the United States and Canada located in Canada. It consists of 11 long-range radars and 36 short-range radars. The system forms a 4,800 km (2,983 mi) long and 320 km (199 mi) wide "tripwire" stretching from Alaska to southern Labrador.
“All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio river nor set a trap on the Blue Ridge…”
Spoken at a time when that was very much not true.
I mean, you wouldn't want to take a drink from the ohio river even if you could.
@@barethor5869 But its freshwater. That means its fresh enough to drink😂
In spanish they call it "agua dulce" Sweet water.
Are you going to tell me that you're not inclined to drink something as enticing as sweet water?
@@dr.pastrami5272 Sure, it's "fresh" water, but it is also heavily polluted.
Speaking from Pittsburgh, our sewer plant dumps into the head of the Ohio... you want to go up to the Allegheny river nowadays
Awesome video man. Thanks!
You already said that it's a hypothetical global invasion. Any "legally binding" international treaties are immediately a moot point.
Yep
But still worth noting in any scenario that’s even remotely grounded in reality
Hypothetical global invasion that renders all treaties moot: What happens to all those US bases in those former treaty countries? Methinks that would provide A LOT of staging grounds to launch counterattacks against the ENTIRE EFFING WORLD. If the world tries to invade the US, THE US WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD IN RESPONSE. Send millions of troops across the border? Enjoy every country in the world suffering from immediate counter-invasions that disrupt their ability to support their invasion force like almost immediately.
And the United Nations would be rendered moot, because the United Nations building exists within US territory last I saw, so any diplomatic justifications would result in UN leadership immediately getting besieged and captured by US armed forces. And since US troops are a big chunk of UN peacekeeping forces, the UN would be toothless to counter the USA because any outright aggression would immediately cause a civil war within their ranks.
So yeah, even if the US has no support from the entire effing world, IT STILL WINS.
said what we all were thinkin'
But that's one of the points on why it's effectively impossible - the instigating country would have to get all the mutual defense countries on their side. It's another incredibly hard step, and it would have to be before the invasion even began.
Geography is as mighty as a military. When you have both on your side it's invincibility.
True in ancient wars. Less true today with advanced weaponry.
Ninguém é invencível só difícil de ser derrotado
Only as long as the America's keeps it's head above the water economically. The 2 vast oceans also make it isolated, so it is extremely dependent on many nations around the world to fund it's military, political and economic might. If a so called "someone" was able to become a bigger economic, influence, you can strangle hold it's economics while having enough leverage to keep the nations from turning on you; you can cause it to implode in slow due constrictive time. As in, a bigger business player is in town, and all your fancy cars and houses in due time will become a liability to you to maintain around the world. Nobody has to shoot a single bullet.
Tell that to the people just walking into your country
the 2nd amendment is MUCH more important than both geography and military. Just look at what happened to the US military. They lost to rice farmers and dudes in sandals. And now look at Ukraine. US citizens are MUCH better equipped and trained too
USA has the best geography but the worst geography students
overused joke
@@highPikachu I wasnt aware and appreciated the education
@@highPikachu Still true, still relevant.
my wife has a PHD in computer science and it probably one of the worst geography scholars I know
@@BeefyBasementBoys probably because geography and computer science are drastically unrelated
Wait... 33:54 - 60.937 tanks? Where did you get your data from? Because it is 5.500 on almost all sources I found online?
As an American, I'm not sure what to think. The items discussed in the video may be facts but the quickest way to hell is to think your invincible.
as long as majority Americans are aware and cognizant of this fact and not let the US supremacy get into their heads, the US dominance would prevail.
Not really, the US nuclear arsenal is truly enough. I mean the only reason the US has not stomped Russia in Ukraine is because lf Russia's nuclear arsenal too. Nukes really work.
@@highonwildghost2326That’s exactly what they don’t do
I feel like the missing part of the video is, if the US already made the entire world band together, they already fucked up
I mean, in such scenario the world would have decided "I am not going to trade with you anymore", crippling the US (and the rest of the worlds economy) beforehand, making the video pointless.
@@highonwildghost2326 The problem is, it already got into MOST people's heads! 🤣🤣🤣
An important caveat that should come with videos like these is that they depict an ideal scenario.
The reality of war is that a lot doesn’t go according to plan.
The video already made some of the worst situation (99.999% impossible) against US
That’s *why* you have overkill. Specifically because things won’t go according to plan. Never take a fair fight.
That doesn't affect the calculus since it affects both sides.
Actually, its to US advantage as we have multiple redundancies.
That goes both ways, for the defender AND attacker. Plus, there is home field advantage.
This video is simply pure American propaganda. How could the crews of aircraft carriers, submarines and other ships stay several years on the oceans without being replaced and resupplied with food, especially those of nuclear submarines? Staying 3 months underwater is psychologically difficult. They resurface and they learn of the death of loved ones. OK the United States has a powerful army from the point of view of military equipment. But the rest is not following the American soldiers are known for not being in the reality of the lightning of wars. They are great warriors in the propaganda of Hollywood war films in reality whether in Vietnam 85% were drug addicts, in Somalia super armed soldiers were routed by barefoot men. In Kuwait and Iraq the only areas they occupied were their military bases. The rest they very rarely left. As for Afghanistan, for an elite army it was rather a military and humanitarian disaster as in all the countries where American imperialism intervened. Should we remember that the United States is the only country to have used two nuclear bombs on civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing 450,000 deaths; in France, the American air force killed 260,000 civilians, women, children, and the elderly. Yes, the American population is the most armed in the world, but what is it worth compared to highly trained soldiers? During the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, the American army lost around 40,000 soldiers. However, each year 30,000 to 35,000 Americans die from firearms. between a country where there are the most drug addicts in the world and the most dead, the USA will self-destruct and none of the 8 billion human beings currently on earth want to die for the 380 million Americans
42:58 The ratio for "40 soldiers for every 1 civilian in an occupied area" doesn't make sense. The ratio "40:1" is extremely unsustainable. Judging by the math, it seems like it should be reversed to "1:40" (1 soldier for every 40 civilians in an area).
that's a typo easy to get it right
Yeah the channel is really dropping in quality
You also have to Remember.....those estimates for occupation ratios are for an unarmed population. The US is literally the opposite of that, so the 40:1 Is probably more representative of what you'd need for the US. Since every single private citizen has access to guns and explosives.
@@Patson20 no, later he says something like "the US population is 336 million so the invader would need to leave behind a force of 8.4 million soldiers." 8.4 million * 40 = 336 million so the correct ratio is 1 soldier to 40 civilians. If the ratio really was 40 soldiers to 1 civilian then the force left behind for 336 US million civilians would have to be 13.44 billion which is almost double the current world population. Plus logically thinking, 40 soldiers to one civilian is just stupid and would make no sense. Why would one person need 40 soldiers to keep them in check? A single person cannot simultaneously shoot 40 other people, especially trained soldiers. The US population isn't made up of 336 million Master Chiefs
@eduardoalcazar2600 40:1 is a number the military came up with on its own after its experiences in Vietnam and the Middle East occupation. You have to remember this isn't literally a soldier staring at 40 people, it's a force calculation. And this primarily is used for pacification of a hostile, but not actively attacking population. So that means if you've got a town of 4,000 people you'd need 100 soldiers garrisoned in that town to properly pacify it and police it. You have to remember that not everyone will be actively attacking the occupying/invading force or even passively resisting them. A better example would be law enforcement, people still listen to the cops orders, surrender, and go to jail despite the fact that they outnumber the police well beyond 40:1. My town for instance has 4,500 people, but we only ever have one or two cops on duty at a time, 10 total officers. That means the occupation ratio of my town is over 400:1 citizens to police. And yet we still enforce order despite being massively outnumbered because people fear reprisal, and they know we can call additional units from outside the area if we are overwhelmed, much like a occupation force could. And sure if the town all decided let's kill the cops there's almost nothing we could actually do to stop it but history shows that when people rebel its only ever a fraction of the whole.
34:50 - The only real feasible spot on that map for an amphibious invasion is along the Texas coastline...except even that wouldn't work because it's all barrier islands.
You didn't even mention the 7 amphibious assult carriers opperated by the U.S. Marines. They are more designed to support landing troops, but can carry 20 F-35s or Harriers and have a decent range of travel. The US does not consider them full aircraft carriers but they are reletively comperable to the smaller classes of what other countries consider aircraft carriers. They absolutely could function as supporting carriers in a full out war scenario, furthering the U.S. fighter capacity at sea by almost 150 fighters.
Yea America is the only country on this planet, that will literally park a navy outside your door step if you mess with them. Floating city of death. Carrier Group is a sight to behold when you look across your waters.
Israel : Please Uncles Sam, help me to fend off Missiles from Iran and its proxies and Yemeni drones😮
@@KamBar2020 Yea not for free. When the time comes when America's enemies come, you better bet your ass israel better come help do their part.
@@jaylu7021 🇹🇼 : 🇺🇸help us to fend off 🇨🇳
It's not just him. Everyone that does these kinds of fleet comparisons tends to forget about those. They're basically what the rest of the world calls a normal sized carrier, but the USN is just so extra that they only count the supercarriers as real carriers, lol.
didn't he make the exact same video a year ago?
"How Geography Made The US Ridiculously OP"
Slightly different focus, but yes.
That video was mostly focused on economics IIRC.
Yes he did the same thing with a lot of videos he sits for about 2-3 years and reaploads them
Huh 😅
That video was more about how the US became powerful not about a US invasion
The amount of information packed in RealLifeLore videos is absolutely insane. I'm 18 minutes into this one and my head is spinning & still over 33 minutes remain. Incredible.
Is your head still spinning? you might want to see a doctor.
@@User-jr7vfYou probably have no friends
@@MikkelDevs Uncalled for. You are definitely the one with no friends. And any you think you have are keeping you around for someone rxtarded to laugh at.
@@WoodrowThe3rd too bad a lot of the info is wrong, and a lot of pertinent stuff is missing. The geography part is pretty good though.
The way you said peuget sound was hilarious as someone from that area.
From what I understand is that to get to us they'd need to cross at least one ocean (depending on how many fronts they want to fight), both of which we control very well.
After that they'd need to establish supply lines (over said oceans, again, very difficult). Then they'd need to hold a significant portion of land before even attempting to push further inland (it'd pretty much be d-day all over again).
Along side that a majority of all americans (not including armed forces and veterans) own and guns and can use them. Hell, some folks own entire armories, enough to equip a small town.
Not to mention they'd have to cross mountain ranges either way they want to approach from.
If they want to approach from land to better deal with supply line issues, they'd need to brave the candian wilderness or fight the mexican cartels.
Roman Empire, British Empire, Mongol Empire or Ottoman Empire didn't get conquered first. They started rotting from within with costs becoming uncontrollable and separatism slowly increasing.
Wait. How did the British Empire get conquered? Didn't they win wwII then decolonized after?
@@HeyG_ no conquered but collapsed and today is less than 5% of what used to be.
China got conquered by invasion…..twice. But yeah, mostly every other dynasty China get conquered by themselves😂.
America is a democracy. A flawed democracy but a democracy. All of there were not
America has a shit ton of debt but we also haven’t tried to invade the world yet cause we know what we shouldn’t do. Although we could
It would have been interesting if you discussed the vulnerability that is social media, and how Russia and China are using it to divide the US. Not everything is about guns.
US media celebrities are divided with their commentary to begin with.
They only mildly exacerbate certain issues I would say. The population is becoming more aware and are starting to disagree, and lots of these disagreements are fundamental without any possibility of resolve.
For instance, allowing the killing of infants is something where there can be no concessions
@AR15andGOD
"My body, my choice"
Except people don't typically give birth to their own internal organs, so that argument sort of breaks down.
Love your videos, one small note: the way you pronounce "during" elicits from me a similar reaction to pulling on one of those fake gum sticks that kinda zap you that you might get as a prize at an arcade
It’s pronounced “Pew-Jet Sound” rather than “Pooh-jet” sound. Love the vids bro, I’m sure you get a ton of these kinda comments lol but “Poo” is where I had to draw the line 😂 31:15
He also pronounces mountains as mounans
A couple of other things to consider about that insurgency: many of them are military veterans with combat experience who've just spent the last 20 years learning how to run an insurgency, how to make improvised explosives, and they have no rules of engagement when someone steps on their land.
Additionally, many of them haven't just been fantasizing about this scenario, they've been actively preparing for it. There are bunkers stocked with food, weapons, ammo, and supplies all over the country, owned by people who don't trust the US government and don't expect their help or intend to play by their rules.
They'd actually be scarier to fight because they didn't sign no Geneva Convention, and if the invaders didn't wanna get blown up by IEDs and have their wounded used as bait so that snipers can pick off the reinforcements and then have their bodies booby trapped, well then they shouldn't have come.
This right here. My new dad spent several years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the man has a fully stocked basement for 4 months of hunker down time, and more sniper rifles than you can count. He makes his own ammo. And he trains people every other weekend to do the same. There's a huge network of military-grade training in the US so that even civilians and police tend to have better skills than your average foreign soldier. It'd be a real bad time to try to march through just about any US state.
How do you beat a drone flying a few hundred feet in the air?
@@steelerfaninperu my dad is also a prepper that makes his own ammo and has a fuckton of guns lol
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@michealdrake3421 those insurgents in particular in this scenario would view the Geneva Conventions as the Geneva Checklist, as would the abominable war criminal to our north in a Canada and the world vs the US scenario
The amount of guns in civilian hands makes that all but impossible honestly.🤷🏻♂️
Think of the city planning in the US too!
A lot of videos skirt around this subject for good reason. Bringing up the gun issue could cause controversy and demonetization in their video. The United States has more civilian owned guns than its population. That's a bad day for any invading force.
The two giant oceans make that so, long before civilian guns would matter
@@AbrahamCasillas-t3o WTF IS A ROUNDABOUT 🦅🦅🦅🦅
That's only guns they know about. There is a lot more than 1.2 guns per citizen. A lot more.
Not only the military, veterans and America’s population would they have to worry about, but in America, a lot of schools have JROTC incorporated into the school system. They may not be well-trained, but they are still somewhat trained. Incorporated into civilians, they too could help train civilians quickly. That type of training doesn’t just leave you.
Accurate. Let's not leave out one of my favorite parts in the Fallout Series is that, NOTHING would stop the US from throwing an Annex on Canada AND Mexico likely in the areas you mentioned more open for ground invasion but certainly anything close by with production and logistic ability. Methinks those places would be seized before negotiations broke down and become the battle fronts but hopefully nobody will ever know.
You didn’t mention America’s most dangerous weapon; FloridaMan! 😂
And its vast army of Karens.
Bro, you forgot about those 14 year old white girls who post on tiktok and those fat alcoholic dudes in the Midwest
JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA LET IN AT LEAST 10,000,000 ILLEGALS IN THE LAST 4 YEARS. NOT EVERYONE CAME OUT OF A MONASTERY. THE COMMUNIST ARE ALREADY IN THE WHITE HOUSE. STUPID VIDEO.
We have red necks with more guns in their garage than European countries.
Naw, they priced Floridaman out of florida
4:45 ain’t no way bro tried to pass a falcon 9 off as an ICBM 💀💀💀💀
Let's be honest, in the case of an actual attack, Falcon 9 could be fitted as a missile pretty trivially.
RTLS ICBM 💀💀💀
@@JonathanSchrock😂😂😂
one of the greatest videos i've seen lately.