I must be getting tired, Lak -- you actually made sense on a few points.
But as for the majority ...
The pushbutton people of modern New York city are not those of 1942 Stalingrad - or Petersburg in 1864. Or 1900 Kimberly.
You really need to start applying a little common sense to what you say. The people of modern New York are the equivalent of children/grand children to the defenders of Stalingrad and Moscow. People haven't changed that much.
Sure ... we love our freedoms and leisure time. But you take the average upper-middle class yuppie who comes home from work every night to a martini and his big screen TV and Chinese takeout and starve him for a week and shake up his world and endanger his children ... and immediately he does what humans ALWAYS do. He seeks a way to survive. He fights for the survival of himself and his kin.
Like the plane crash survivors in the Andes who turned to controlled cannibalism to survive for a long period.
Like the climber in Utah who lay with for days with his arm pinned beneath a rock, and eventually cut it off and walked for help.
Like a group of friends of mine who were showshoeing and got caught in a blizzard with very little equipment; on the third day they were pretty much crawling, and 2 of them lost fingers to frostbite -- but even though they were upper middle class "button pushers" they have what we all have - the ability to fight for survival.
Again -- your'e like all the enemies of the US. "Those American's like their comfort, so they are weak and depraved." BS. We're neither. But you take comfort where you can get it, and fight for your life when you can't.
Commanders turning their weapons? What, strategic bombers? Sub-launched nukes? They going to level a few more of our cities to "save us"?
True, strategic forces would be of little use and trooops might be elsewhere. but with the rest of the world in turmoil it poses the question of where would those occupation troops come from? Wouldn't they be needed elsewhwere to control Europe and Africa? The American army/navy (which has much more than Nukes) is going to be somwhere in the world, and if there are uninvited foreign troops on their home soil they will be PISSED.
And if someone has leveled one of our cities, I imagine the country that allowed it will disappear under the bombardment of even one of our nuclear "boomer" submarines and a ticked off captain/crew who has realized the chain of command has failed.
Stopping people from "going to get it"? You are naive. In the event of such a catastrophy all routes out the major cities will be blocked. Some people would no doubt leave, but if the masses have ideas about getting in their cars and fleeing the cities I think they are in for a shock - if they happen to have enough gas in their tanks at the time to get to where they think they are going.
Let's see ... Denver has a population of about 1.5 million, probably 2 million guns. Since we can assume the evil invading UN troops don't have major armor (how would they get it inland? Or even on the coast with just the Coast Guard on patrol) we're talking a few platoons of infantry/airborne. Maybe the same number of turncoats.
Trying to guard a city on the plains with about 1,000 roads out of it into the surrounding plains and farms.
Getting that tactical picture? I can hear a radio communication now from a checkpoint on I-25.
- CP: CP Bravo to control. I have a hundred thousand American's approaching. They are apparently trying to leave city, not just lying around crying themselves to death like that guy on the internet said they would.
- COMMAND: Command to CP Bravo. They are unarmed civilians. Fire at well.
- CP: (sounds of gunfire) Command! They are heavily armed with .50 caliber rifles that can shoot down helicopters and many AK47 semi automatics and AR15's. And they shoot VERY WELL!!
- COMMAND: Dang! We forgot the AWB was allowed to sunset by the senators and congressmen working with us. What fools! What is your situation?
- *silence*, followed by a new voice ... "Dang -- this little foreign feller had a radio on him. Get his guns and rations, Billy Bob, and let's see if any of these farmers have any food stashed for us"
And I haven't even covered that fact that in our free market economy the farmers will be desperate to get their wares into the city. And there are still enough horses and old wagons to do more than you might think.
You're confused about something; I am being matter of fact. I have seen people en masse out of control before firsthand. I am certainly not afraid of the truth, which seems to be a major stumbling block for a great many people.
I'm confused about a lot of things, as are many people. But the bad news is ...
The World Is What It Is. Sometimes we may wish things could be explained by dark powers, but the fact is the screwed up state of affairs is just the result of 5 billion people with different Agendas trying to cohabitate on a planet with limited resources -- people full of jealousy, religious fervor, and just plain hatred.
We've all seen masses out of control. Some of us have even been in situations called a "mob" and didn't realize it until after (having some drinks downtown after a major sports win -- didn't know it was a riot).
But just read all the sources out there, delve for the truth, and realize that many things are JUST AS THEY SEEM.
I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.