Americans, do you feel proud that your army is the most powerful army and you actually control the world?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face, that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum. And what then, when the Ayatollah has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Iran's decades long Jihad, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Islam than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and Islamic slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin - just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our Iranian enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance." And this - this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits - not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of Islamic darkness.

Kelley1 · Accepted Answer

At the present time, America's military is the most powerful and controls the majority of the world. That is approximately double the military power of China. However, the economic growth rate of China is 5.45% vs. 2.49% for the USA. On that basis, in 20 years the military of China and USA will be appoximately equal and after 20 years the military power of China will exceed the military power of the USA.

msc545 · Accepted Answer

Except that our army is probably not the most powerful army, and we do not control the world. We'd like to tell everybody that those things are true because we'd like to scare the rest of you. You should not believe us. That mythology originated specifically because of the very bad habit that we have of paying defense contractors literally a trillion dollars a year to build weapons of questionable efficiency and questionable usability. Because we pay them that much money, we like to then assume that the weapons we purchase are the best weapons in the world. They are not. Moreover, much of our armed forces personnel come from the very poorest levels of our society. These are the people for whom a military career is seen as an upgrade relative to earning potential. Such people, while dedicated and well-meaning, also have very poor educations because we refuse to provide anything better for them. They are the unfortunate victims of poor education, poor genetics, and poor nutrition, and subsequently, poor health. I think you know as well as I do that such persons do not make for an elite military.

permanentem · Accepted Answer

I would prefer if we didn't have to "control the world". It would be nice if the world had some self control, but it's better to be able to fight evil than to be powerless in the face of evil.

Psalm 28:3-4

Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts. Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.

strateguy632 · Answer

not for that. pride is for a society with personal freedom.. in fact china has more warplanes so it is most powerful air power not ours. russia has more tanks [even after ukraine destroyed thousands] so russia is the most powerful "army". if we controlled the world putin would stop attacking ukraine and iran would stop shooting rockets at its neighbors. so we aare not the best at war but we are the best in freedom.

lightbulb27 · Answer

We'll, not sure about proud but impressed we are so technologically powerful, says something about our system and people. We are "the world".

But I don't like how we do it and how it looks. Not so long ago, we put our names on boxes of food as we fed the hungry. Being the fading bully of the world is not good for image.

exitseven · Answer

It is the most powerful military in the world. We have the best trained personnel and the best technology. Not enough to control rhe whole world and it would be a mistake to think so

DonaldDarko · Answer

We have it made right now. I hope we make that asshole Starmer piss down his leg thinking about what we might do.

Cyfris · Answer

For the land of the freeeeeeeeeeeeee annnnnnnnd theeeeee hoooommmmmeeeee of the bravvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeee

Anonymous · Answer

Trump just asked a bunch of other countries to send ships to help them against Iran (who acocrding to your president basically have no military left), so I don’t know how powerful it can really be.

alice55 · Answer

I'm proud that my country have one of the most powerful army as a French girl ^^

WindAtMyBack · Answer

The military is the most powerful. But control the world? That's absurd.

Jersey2 · Answer

Having served in the US Army, yes. But I guess I was always proud.

Jeff51 · Answer

I don't know about proud but I know we can do something if need be.

Lliam · Answer

No. I'm not a chest thumping war monger.

AgentG111 · Answer

Absolutely!

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