I keep telling people that whatever liberals claim about the DPRK, the USA would be much worse than that if we had Chinese or Russian artillery pointing across the Mexican border. Like there would be a general social expectation to worship American empire and mass arrests for suspected treason, even more than what already exists. Definitely mandatory military conscription. It would be the real life version of whatever wacky caricature of military dictatorship that liberals like to mock.
The only difference is that even the liberal cartoon fantasy of the evil DPRK has sense enough to remain at a stalemate, never actually invading its neighbor. The USA is a mad beast who would immediately and clumsily strike an enemy in a bordering country, regardless of the consequences or how much of an advantage it would have.
Not to mention we only have "free speech" in the US because it isn't a threat to power at the present. In that scenario you gave, if those countries also funded groups that would use "free speech" to topple the government, Americans would completely end any "free speech" we have.
If China was that powerful, how many Americans would simply become Chicoms because that's where all the money and the power was at?
A China that had artillery on the Mexican border, guarantees half of Texas would be heavily invested in the economic consequences of that deployment. And therefore, you'd end up with a Donbas on the Rio Grande.
I keep telling people that whatever liberals claim about the DPRK, the USA would be much worse than that if we had Chinese or Russian artillery pointing across the Mexican border. Like there would be a general social expectation to worship American empire and mass arrests for suspected treason, even more than what already exists. Definitely mandatory military conscription. It would be the real life version of whatever wacky caricature of military dictatorship that liberals like to mock.
The only difference is that even the liberal cartoon fantasy of the evil DPRK has sense enough to remain at a stalemate, never actually invading its neighbor. The USA is a mad beast who would immediately and clumsily strike an enemy in a bordering country, regardless of the consequences or how much of an advantage it would have.
Not to mention we only have "free speech" in the US because it isn't a threat to power at the present. In that scenario you gave, if those countries also funded groups that would use "free speech" to topple the government, Americans would completely end any "free speech" we have.
Yeah when speech was a threat to the us, they did the red scare and cracked down on communist organizing.
Alien and Sedition acts. US courts pretty immediately were in favor of limiting free speech for anti-war protesters.
However, they would still fellate themselves over American freeze peach while doing it
If China was that powerful, how many Americans would simply become Chicoms because that's where all the money and the power was at?
A China that had artillery on the Mexican border, guarantees half of Texas would be heavily invested in the economic consequences of that deployment. And therefore, you'd end up with a Donbas on the Rio Grande.