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The US has 300 million people in it. If even one percent of them decided to pick up a brick and go to Washington DC there isn't an army on earth that could stop them.
Revolutions are fought by a tiny minority against another tiny minority while everyone else just tries to stay alive.
Point is, the side that wins is generally the side that has the most people in the right place.
Pretty sure in 9 out of 10 fights an A10 beats brick.
Is that true? Like, it would be suicidal for anyone in Washington and out of a bunker, plus it would be a really bad idea for literally dozens of reasons, but couldn’t the military just nuke them?
That’s not a gotcha, by the way, I hope even this administration isn’t stupid enough to do that, which makes this effectively true, I’m just curious.
You’re assuming the military would take part. If there was open rebellion in the US, it would probably cause a fracture in every branch of the military. The ones who leave would likely take up arms with the rebels, bringing their strategic and tactical expertise.
The problem is the legitimate government will have the majority of production. Just because it's super hard to run a factory that is getting pounded by artillery. And just like last time the rebels will have a hard time sourcing arms and ammo.
I’m just very curious about a specific hypothetical and everyone wants to answer it in context. That’s normally a good thing and maybe I’m in the wrong community to ask this, but for this question the context is irrelevant.
Let’s say it’s not Washington who nukes them, maybe there is no military anymore, maybe it’s not even a nuke. None of the details matter.
Are 3M people overwhelming for the full capabilities of a modern government?
Nuking the capital, to save themselves from a revolution? I can't see any way that doesn't solidify the revolution
Yeah, it’s totally insane and will hopefully never happen. I’m just wondering if there really isn’t artillery that can handle 3M people trying to attack with basic projectiles.
I'm not what condition for victory would be achieved by nuking Washington DC for anyone. Seems like that would be a win for the people opposed to the existing government to me.
Getting rid of the 3M protesters.
I can make a separate post to ask about it in no stupid questions, but I’m literally just curious if humanity has the tools to manage 3M protesters with basic projectiles. I read the line in your comment and thought “wait, really?” and that’s that.