What they really don’t want you to know:
The F35 is the most overpriced, over-engineered hunk of junk in human history. On the other hand, the A10 Warthog is pretty nearly perfect for a mission that still makes sense, is economical and proven — so they’re decommissioning it. This tells you all you need to know about their “unbeatable” ripoff of a war machine. You don’t even need to ask why the US hasn’t been able to win since 1945, and even then the Russians did most of the hard work of defeating NAZIS who lost the war but won the peace.
The Japanese high command knew they couldn’t invade the USA because they’d find a rifleman behind every bush. Having been provoked into the fight and needing a negotiated settlement preserving their sphere of influence, they tried to force a quick end by giving the big guy a bloody nose. It didn’t work, and they underestimated their opponents very badly, not for well understood manufacturing capacity, but in willingness to fight once they got in the game. They still don’t understand how the USMC could beat the crap out of them in hand to hand fighting under the worst circumstances. But those guys are dead and all but forgotten on both sides of the Pacific.
The US government has been trying to overcome the problem of having free citzens with balls who might turn on them ever since. They can’t rely on manufacturing might anymore and have spawned generations too weak to fight with nothing to fight for. So far they’ve failed to cancel the 2nd Amendment completely, but they have pretty well turned the Constitution into an empty promise because the people let them.
Sheeple with guns can beat wolves. They do it every day, usually without firing a shot in anger. A determined and trained housewife with an AR15 has all the superpowers she probably needs. Of course lamestream media don’t want to talk about that, and want you to believe that superheroes can throw people 20 feet at walls, but it’s OK because it’s not gun violence, and they aren’t like you and me. Meanwhile it is deplorables who used to be war fighters in the newly woke military. Now they are killing themselves to get out.
We know who the Evil Empire is. The rebel alliance may always seem like their cause is desperate, but that too is propaganda. The rat bastards are scared. They should be. They have awakened a sleeping dragon.