>>489878 (OP)>And I realized that leftists have really not addressed this in sufficient capacity.Read more history
Tsar Nick N°2 send his navy to attack Japan, they got their asses whooped, the Russian navy felt betrayed and switched allegiance to Lenin and the Bolsheviks. It's called the battle of Tsushima (spelling might be wrong).
>The implication here is that if we're going to be fighting a revolution, the entire might of the US military would be opposing us.Well the US rulers want to attack China, that could be their battle of Tsushima moment.
Basically get the soldiers to join your side. When a ruling class sends their military into battles they can't win, this all of a sudden becomes very doable.
>I think this is very likely true. And if it's true then it is the single best explanation for why there is no political movement in the US:If all the workers go on strike, and hide in a hole somewhere, all that military power does nothing.
The real reason why lefty political movements have a hard time in the US, is because imperial super profits enable the imperial bourgoisie to continue extracting profits from their imperial periphery while their domestic workers go on strike. That means they can weather these strikes, they continue to have transnational revenue during strikes which they can use to pay for political repression.
Lenin realized this and basically decided that revolution had to happen in the periphery first in order to break that dynamic. He was mostly correct. During the period of anti-colonial liberation, the British empire lost virtually all of it's colonies and as a result the labor movement in the UK got very strong.
> Most people believe that to fight their government they would have to fight against helicopter gunships and f35s or whatever.Jets and copters are terrible for cajoling people, they need too much fuel and maintenance, they wouldn't remain airborn for very long.
I would be more worried about the type of stuff that the Israeli are doing in gaza.
Again try to convince the soldiers to pick your side.