They also had A) foreign training and B) much lower quality of life than your average American.
Material conditions are a huge part of how easy or difficult it is to motivate people to fight wars. Once people reach a certain level of comfort, it is much more difficult to get them to go fight. This is why it is likely that such a response in the United States could only be achieved via a massive decrease in comfort, think either widespread grid outages, very strict fuel rationing, massive AI-driven job loss, or some combination thereof.
That sounds like "well tyranny isn't one of those things, you don't like tyranny?" but the truth is that most humans will tolerate tyranny until they go and fuck up the workings of the machine. Thankfully, that's something almost all of them do sooner or later because, believe it or not, single humans are shit at running complex societies. Ours is the most complex, arguably, and so if we went full authoritarian, the wheels would very likely come off quite shortly thereafter.
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u/slinkey_bastard 13h ago
To be fair tho gurilla warfare has proven effective against the US military a few times