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Utopia Talk / Politics / world's current scariest militaries
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Sam Adams
rank | Sun Apr 19 05:26:11 1) USA 2) China 3) Israel End of list. Everyone else is so far below these top 3 that they are not even worth talking about. |
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jergul
rank | Sun Apr 19 06:46:28 Israel could not fight a week without US resupplies and support. You really think conscript trained reservists are a huge force multiplier? And this is against things like Hamas and Hezbollah. It would be in rediculous trouble if it had to face Iran alone. |
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jergul
rank | Sun Apr 19 06:53:46 But scary, true. I would not even have China up there. Scary involves a real risk of a country using their military in illegal wars of aggression. I would certainly have the US and Israel in top two with Russia in a solid third place. |
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murder
rank | Sun Apr 19 14:19:46 "Israel could not fight a week without US resupplies and support." We literally finance their entire armed forces. - |
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jergul
rank | Sun Apr 19 14:59:54 I know. You might as well give the IDF the same branch standing as the USMC, except with a more difficulty getting it to obey the chain of command. |
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Asgard
rank | Sun Apr 19 15:27:54 Turkey. Turkey is the scariest. They managed to attack the Kurds in Syria and Iraq and massacre them, without anyone in the world batting an eye, and they also invaded Cyprus in the 70s and split a sovereign nation right in two (and again massacring innocent greeks) without the whole of Europe chickening out. They also are consultants for Hamas, Hizballah and IRGC and major weapons suppliers. The greatest trick Erdogan ever pulled was convincing the west he’s western |
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