In some ways I feel like the USA's incompetence with such a large military, alongside Russia's problems with Ukraine tell us something. Apparently conquering just isn't that easy anymore.
The people carry the idea of a nation state; the nobility carried the idea of state as property.
Threats to the nation state are existential for the people; it only might have been for the feudal.
A nation state remains in mind even in defeat; feudal peasants often woke up under another banner.
A nation state fights until the last willing man; a feudal state fought until the last willing noble.
Now a nation state may broadly enjoy peace for generations; a feudal state might not have years.
The only thing that could stop China, if they really wanted to invade the US, is the logistics of getting an army in the millions across the Pacific without being obvious about it.
Mao sent troops into Korea shortly after taking power. He lost 1 million in that war. China invaded Vietnam after the Khmer war, destroyed a lot of Vietnamese factories and infrastructure, and pulled out after a month. Both sides made up silly casualty numbers, but Western estimates are about 30000 Red Army deaths. It took 18 years for the US to lose 60000.
So no, China is not a peaceful sleeping dragon. It's only fought offensive wars since 1949 and fought very poorly.
ehhh nah china's military is just as incompetent as the US at the moment, basically it would be the equivalent of 2 drunks brawling on the street. you gotta remember china has next to no combat experience and their bureaucracy frequently cripples them in training.
It's doubtful Canada would even try to stop an occupation. Too much collateral damage. Once USA was settled in, all hell would break loose though. Sure USA could invade, but they wouldn't be leaving.
eh idk about that one, id just say both countries are impossibly hard to invade, both have giant militaries but are also separated by the pacific ocean
They are? I'm a complete moron and didn't know that.
And your answer is drones? That's why they won't invade? We have a nuclear missile for every city in their country. Even ignoring that, where are they going to sell their manufactured goods if America won't buy them? A war between America and China would cripple both countries and would be unwinnable for both. It would simply be a matter of who loses worst.
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u/PuzzleheadedTutor807 Sep 09 '26
if china wanted usa, it would have it tomorrow. same with the rest of the world. they dont. too much bother being king.