Is that the smell of someone being cooked?

  • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    If the US goes down, they won’t be able to NIMBY over South America. Those countries can rise to prominence on the world stage.

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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      6 days ago

      Yeah, because the US military is just going to vanish if the government collapses.

      All those aircraft carriers, nuclear subs, and land based missiles will just leave.

        • zbyte64@awful.systems
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          4 days ago

          Good news, we won’t have to feed them with tax dollars. Bad news is the people building data centers that are part of a kill chain are now feeding the soldiers

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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        6 days ago

        The US military will be too busy with power struggles to care about South America.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

        They’ll likely be subdivided between costal states and be scrapped. A lot of that shit is non-viable to maintain if you aren’t the US, if memory serves right aircraft carriers are generally built in Maine for example kinda doubt South Carolina has the infrastructure to maintain one.

        Mind you that’s assuming a lot of things going a relatively specific way but I can’t imagine even a reduced federal government maintaining any of the fleets.

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            4 days ago

            My point was moreso that no individual state would have the resources or even infrastructure to properly maintain the various ships in the US Navy. I suspect that for any who would try (assuming new federations and unions don’t pop up) would basically be stuck with the same issue as Russia with that one aircraft carrier.

            • imahappyguy@lemmy.world
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              I was trying to play into it in a more macabre manner. I was hoping to imply that in the event of the collapse of the US, the states would go free for all and protect resources. I have no doubt that South Carolina would try to keep as many weapons as we manufacture. It’s a fun hypothetical to think about. The level of chaos that would ensue. It’s fascinating, really.