How does the US do these things?

Badly, and with nuclear threats . But it will do them. I do not dispute it will loose in a conventional way.

I think where we differ is you expect a stop in hostilities after the USA is beaten; and I feel since the reason for this war is only market manipulation; the war will continue, however it can

I think the USA is remarkably stable; yes there will be vast hardship and many bad things will happen. But I do not see anything to take advantage of this weakness, good or bad.

I hope the USA forces are moved back to be mostly harmless; but the war will not stop as long as the Trump circles can make huge amounts of money from market manipulations.

And I have leaned to never underestimate these things. There are always missiles to fire too. Even if supplies are low. This war can last until the end of his presidency.

Not only that:

A threat of a nuclear attack, repeated several times, and an actual explosion, will make Trump and his cronies hundreds of billions of dollars if they stretch out the events. He has nothing restraining him.

This crises is still a long time from ending. And be worse later.

While you are absolutely correct about the points you made, the war is not dependent on these.

The logic is not military, but from the point of view of a scam artist who has every incentive to continue.

It will not matter if USA forces die by the thousands achieving nothing; it does not matter if the oil hits empty for domestic use. Nothing matters but profits for a very few.

Quite literally the USA could be reduced to sail boats with troops armed with only swords, and be killed out at sea. As long as the USA can bomb in the area, with any aircraft: money can be had

Socialism teaches that the left cannot win elections except in token amounts ( some congressional and a few mayors)

I think any large country, and the USA has a lot of resources, can easily run a loosing war indefinitely, should the leadership decide that is best.

Winning is not the objective here, it’s market manipulation, and the Trump administration can continue to do this. Indeed, if they stop soon, his inner circle will stop making huge profits

I’ve seen this kind of stuff before with Russian bloggers a few years ago. It all amounts to nothing for any results.

Leaders of large countries can and will simply ignore inconvenient happenings and continue regardless, if they are insane or stubborn enough.

Of course, Russia has relatively competent leadership, so whatever the USA does will not be as effective. But the American war will continue long after any of these enlightened stories suggest

When, if, the democrats get power, most likely they will say their hands are tied and they cannot dissolve the new enforcers, cannot fire many. Cannot change many of the new policies.

Whatever may happen, I predict the situation must get exponentially worse first

I’m pretty sure the people making the list don’t know or care if the people are dead. They are in a bubble

That made me do a horse laugh

Article sounds like cope and imperial hubris mixed up, as well as a detachment from reality.

I’ve read enough history of declining powers to suspect it’s going to take at least a generation for these types of people to be realistic.

Until then…

You have enriched my life

I think more groups will pledge money; soon, the amount may grow a lot

including Let’s Encrypt, DigiCert, and Sectigo – have rejected certificate requests for the agency’s domains, citing US sanctions pressure.

Lets encrypt was disappointing to me, I use them often and had thought they were not subject to this. But it makes sense in hindsight.

Surely they can use Chinese providers for certs? Unless of course the Chinese ones are still controlled by imperial browsers. They will not want their certs untrusted in chrome, Firefox and safari

Who is the handsome cat?

Other people simply want to relax and see a comic about a flaming head without having to think.

Found them! I hope they are shamed , forced and coerced into giving bathroom facilities.

The USA cannot win this war; but Trump inner circle never meant to win it. It was started and propagated to do market manipulations.

Any confusion about USA strategy can be resolved when seen through that profit motive.

Edit: clarity