It would be Vietnam all over again.

"Those who ignore history, are doomed to repeat it" is supposed to be cautionary, but for MAGA, it's a game plan.

First as tragedy, then as something else, I think

Yes this.

The US Military is setup to fight and disable entire countries, not to sustain a ground occupation contested by native guerrilla forces.

Urban warfare and the fact that native attackers can hide in civilian populations will grind any army down. There are simply too many avenues of attack in an urban environment.

The Army wants to draw a line in the ground and completely dominate one side of the line and then deploy the capability to rain death on anybody within 100+ miles of that line. They don't want to be clearing a neighborhood house to house and trying to detect every IED and ambush when any civilian could be holding a grenade or gun and any pile of rubble or trash could be an explosive.

The only way this has been avoided in modern times is when Israel completely flatted most of Palestine, killing a large amount of civilians in the process. I don't think Donald Trump would try to avoid that option.

And even saying they won WWII is generous in itself, they joined the winning side in progress.

its all about just overwhelming with numbers, not that different from russia but with hordes of orcs. theres no strategy in it.

Sure getting a job with ICE is easy, but how would a bunch of Colombians enter the country and get a work permit in the first place?

is it this?