as long as the structure of state power (nukes, planes, etc.) remains one sided it would be a bitter fight, but no side would be assured victory

If they didn't have ready-made bombs, they would have had spitballs to use as IEDs.

look up Rex 84

if you don't believe the government is capable of action very quickly to attempt to put down such resistance you're mistaken

How are nukes useful for the govt in an insurgency type situation?

They can what, blow up their own cities?

any large-scale WMD, nuke or otherwise, is too destructive for the gov't to want to use against an insurgency.

Only China has the surveillance establishment to quell an insurgency before it gets out of their control.

USA has the tools, but not the legality to use it that way, even in practice.

China is barely hanging on during good times

if you think that you severely underestimate the lengths the state will take to subvert the law in wartime

Even if they wanted to, they don't know what they're doing. Frankly, the USA's three-letters don't know what the're doing in suppressing domestic dissent as China does.

drones will be able to do arial surveillance of alot

Ya, and again, generalized knowledge in the public negates a lot of that.

it won't get forested areas or mountains as much but of course they'll have 24 hr updates

plus infared tech being what it is, they won't have to concentrate too much

@A. Spader you're right. The govt would do a lot of horrible things and they have a lot of tools to use, but they cant beat 25-50 million armed men spread across the country

if 25 million are fighting, yeah

but the government's strategy will be to prevent the number from every getting that high

Infrared is defeatable as a surveillance tool.

Yeah probably. Propaganda and such

pick off people slowly, bits at a time

believe it or not.

@Jeremy-Retard oh I know. It's just illustrative of the power they have

They will portray any resistance as terrorists but most who arent left dont trust news and govt info anyway

as long as numbers are thin they can use the door kickers to take out most of em

Its hard to say, but civilians guns are such a huge factor that govt cant be sure they can win. Thus they cant go too far to quickly. Only small increases that they can hide and mislead about

guns don't shoot themselves

training and willingness to fight far outweigh equipment

They do if you build a sensor and set up shotgun boobytraps 🤔

hell most of the goat herders we're fighting have total shit tier equipment, let alone the sort of guns of the people of America

much less the types of people here

and yet they've fought us *very* effectively

"fought us effectively"

for some definitions of effective

*for goat herders with 30 year old sks

Well even if only a small percentage of Americans have the will, ability, and equipment to fight thats still many millions

We could do a lot more if we weren't supporting a reginme selling the weapons and material aid directly to these same "goat hurders"

Pakistan and Afghanistan

like 70% of all the military shit we give them just disappears due to the corruption

From guns to jeeps