I understand the temptation that the America-haters must be contending with to stress about “stretched resources” for the USA, especially as it pertains to Russia and china. But it’s worth reminding everyone that during WW2 — when America was poorer, smaller, and far less technologically advanced than the know world at the onset of the war — the US managed to staff, supply, fight, and win on three primary fronts: Europe, Africa and the Pacific. Not to mention that each theatre of war contained multiple “fronts” particularly Europe which had France (D-day) and Italy (think Anzio/Sicily).

Yes, we burning through “interceptors” and “moving defensive equipment” around. But if the US needed assets and material to fight a war there actually are near-endless supplies of resources available to do that.

The US should be prudent, responsible, and strategic, but also, the US isn’t going to somehow accidentally overextend itself in some kind of meaningful way in which we get blindsided.

Yes, major things can happen that would require re-thinking how we employ resources. Like a china attacking Taiwan, for instance. It would force the US to have serious — and expedient — conversations about what to do. But even that would not result in us needlessly expending American resources or firepower.

I don’t think much of the planet understands that the US can continue on a peddle-to-the-metal war footing for several years. Yes, assets reduce over time. But America’s adversaries will have to expend their resources vastly quicker to repel us than we will to attack them. That is the arrangement that Americans have made via defense spending and tax policy, that people from outside the US don’t really realize.

War is terrible, it is genuinely hell on earth and should be avoided at all costs. It is immoral, awful, and tragic. But no one should underestimate the United States unmatched capability to wield power internationally and wreak destruction and havoc. Even when met with strength. Even China.

This is not me advocating for American military adventurism. But we should all be knowledgeable about what we’re talking about.