We have toys that could dust Russian equipment that we don't even bother to bring out of mothballs... we sell 3rd generation stuff, use 2nd
generation stuff and keep the real stuff to ourselves.
We could kick the living daylights out of the planet...
And therein is the problem and the real reason our half a Trillion black budget is useless and so is our other Trillion per year we spend...
We can BEAT anyone, anytime.
But we can't even use 1/10th of what we can do without giving it away, so we fight our wars even with smaller nations largely conventionally and take
losses
And if we did use what we could... what good would that be?
We can't "occupy" the world all we can do is blow it up, that is essentially useless unless the "world" tries to gang up on us.... which will
never happen.
So in essence we have paid for Bazookas to swat flies with... complete waste of money.
We can get the flies, but then we would no longer have a house worth living in...
Maybe we get lucky and Aliens invade and most of what we have built wont rot away the centuries