Is America powerful enough to subjugate the Earth?

Nope.

>>1840625

They weren't even powerful enough so subjugate North Vietnam.

Or Iraq.

Or Afghanistan.

Ton of factors in this. They technically are right now, but not hardcore.

They could solo a majority of the earths gdp with nukes, but that's not too impressive.

Like for instance, in one month they can make 1.5 thousand Abrahms tanks. That could actually rival the entire planets production, but they couldn't get a decisive victory from those tanks in the first month, and after like 3-4 months all countries would be in total war.

They could also riposte a lot of missiles and whatnot, and maybe even sustain a war against the planet for a year at most (if everybody else completely botches the cruise missile/air war on u.s. homeland, which they probably wouldnt, not to mention sleepers), but they can't blitzkrieg the entire planet.

>>1840625
>nukes
Conquest by sword is literally impossible today.

>>1840645
Maybe 30 years ago. Countries are way better at transitioning into total war now, and so are cruise missiles. The united states industrial strength would be invalidated by oceans long enough for countries to transition into formidable defences.

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>>1840645
>>1840659

>>1840658
>using swords in an age of nukes
No shit

>>1840625

literally yes. the american air force alone is probably the most powerful military force in world history. i have no idea how long they're going to be able to keep it up though, their racial demographics don't tell a good story

>>1840633

America was never at war with North Vietnam or Afghanistan, and they wiped out the entire Iraqi army in a couple of hours and then turned their country in a permanent shithole

No, not the whole world. The Western Hemisphere would be pretty easy to conquer but Eurasia and Africa are too damn big and have too many people.

>>1840625
Yes, but literally what for?
They already control the important parts of the world (airspace and the oceans).

Subjugate as in establish hegemony? Possibly, if they really went all in and abandoned some of their humanitarian rhetoric. They're already the most significant hegemonic power on earth.

Subjugate as in annex? No, Americans are notoriously bad at holding onto resisting foreign territory, at least while they keep the kiddygloves on.

No. America relies completely on trade that depends on a measure of global stability (atleast in the more developed world). If America tried to take over the world it would instantly be fucking itself over at the same time.

>>1840867
>America was never at war with North Vietnam or Afghanistan

Armed conflict counts in this context.

>>1840625
A better question would be why would it want to?

>>1840921

>No. America relies completely on trade that depends on a measure of global stability (atleast in the more developed world). If America tried to take over the world it would instantly be fucking itself over at the same time.

Believing this meme is hilarious. There is nothing that the US imports that it could not, and in most cases didn't previously produce itself.

>>1841051
It can't specialise in everything

>>1841061

Why? Because this is a game of Civ and it wouldn't be balanced?

A country can be objectively better at producing everything than other countries do and still conduct profitable trade, thanks to comparative advantage. But make no mistake, the first country is still objectively better at producing everything than those it trades with.

>>1840633
Lmaoing at the delusional teenagers saying yes.

>>1840625
They couldn't even subjugate Afghanistan and North Vietnam.

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>>1840625
>Is America powerful enough to subjugate the Earth?
No, but they are powerful enough to subjugate their own people.

>>1841051
Producing everything yourself can yield negative results, just like in Yugoslavia's case.

>>1840625
No, but they're powerful enough to be a linchpin of an alliance that can exert some level of influence.

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>>1841231
hahaha ah this good ol' meme response.

>Implying America was actually trying to subjugate NV and Aghanshitstan

If they really would have wanted, they'd have carpet bombed every man woman and child until there was nothing of value but the worlds biggest spot that would look like an ugly mole from space. *Tsk Tsk*

Even a dumb puerto rican like me knows this silly, childs basics

>>1841296
Considering subjugating a country is open season to all (No Nukes), than yes m'boy.

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>>1840633
Or Canada

>>1841296
>they'd have carpet bombed every man woman and child
They didn't? I thought they dropped more bombs than the entire WWII in vietnam war, they also used B52 too.

>>1841296
>>1841344

They did. And even so, they failed. Now take that times every shithole country on earth where the people have nothing to lose and you've got fifty Vietnam's and the first thing that's going down is the US economy and manpower.

we already have OP. the world is our bitch

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>>1841638
t. Cleetus ibn Muhammad al-Texasi

>>1840625
Yes, easily.

>>1841638
Yes, I'm gladly your bitch.

No please, continue paying war taxes and sending your sons to die for my freedom :^)

>>1840694

Now you understand the might of aryan subversion

>>1840921
What this anon said >>1841051.
If the US was an exporting nation, then yes America would collapse if they stopped trading with the world. But the worse that could happen is the prices on goods will go up.

>>1841051
>Declare war on everyone
>Shift to war production
>also start churning out civilian cars and appliances and electronics and dildos
Ok

Not really, no
Nor do I want us to

>>1840867
>I'm a retard

Yes we already knew that, but what about the war in Iraq and Vietnam?

>>1841296
But we have carpetbombed them.

If we bombed every inch of these countries it would bankrupt us.

>>1840625
Yes we have enough fleija warheads, those fucking elevens will be wiped off the map

That depends, is genocide allowed?

>>1841666
You are so fucking delusional I hope that you are baiting.

>>1841834
>if we import everything then an embargo wouldn't hurt us

What

>>1842029
>is X allowed in total war

I don't know anon. I think self-defense for America isn't allowed.

>>1840625
If its allies help it do so than yes.

>>1842019
What about them? Those wars sucked and were a disaster

>>1840625
It doesn't really want to, so no

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time has past, war has changed, america could very well increase it's lead to the point of domination in as little as 100 years

>>1840625
They subjugate every country in the world that they don't consider an enemy.

>>1842102
>>1842117
>>1842119
>>1842144
>what are nuclear weapons

>>1842366
China and Russia have nuclear weapons but that hardly means the US isn't going to try and topple them anyhow.

>>1842105
>>1840633
>>>/facebook/
>>>/youtube/

>>1840625
They already did it, only Russia and China are left to conquer ¿Can they resist much longer?

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America cannot even subjugate Israel

China and Russia arent the only countries who have nuclear weapons. Americans have them too and so many other places. Which does not predict the best future if anything were to happen..

>>1840625
Yes, if our elites lost their minds and went full carnage.
But the casualties would be immense to the point the world wouldn't be worth having

>>1842627
>But the casualties would be immense to the point the world wouldn't be worth having

This is an important point. If the US ever took more than 20k casualties in a single day in a major war, we'd probably start asking for negotiations.

>>1842456
Citation for that quote?