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"Duke of URL" macbenahATkdsiDOTnet wrote

John's cutesy-pie combat methods were interesting, slightly, but
suited to a 1930's Boys' Book of How to Have a War.

Everything after the SUV/otto-76 was a bit tongue in cheek though.

Peter did a fine job of dismissing them all.

In the case of the SUVs Peter didn't.. To dodge a tank round all
you need do is side-step half the width of your vehicle. Claiming
that the tanks will close to ploint blank range is stupid when they
are facing concentrated AT fire. I'm also not sure he understood
the potential of the Otto-76 to shoot down smart munitions.

And I especially agree with the last one - countries where all the
citizens are heavily armed are not countries like Iraq, where
people the ruler doesn't like get fed alive into shredding
machines. So they aren't the kind of country we'd be needing to
invade.

However the question wasn't about poor countries, but

Straw man.
I did NOT say a word concerning the wealth, relative or absolute, of
countries. In fact, I don't think ANYone did.

middle-ranking ones, which I took to mean ones comparable to most
european nations.

Both the *stars* of Old Europe, Germany & France, have a history of
mass slaughter of citizenry when a new "leader" takes office.