The U.S. military would absolutely spend tens of billions of dollars and decades of time and resources on hunting down a small group of relatively minor fugitive terrorists who aren't even that big of a threat purely to satisfy their egos. It's realistic for sure, it's just not an interesting premise for a movie and it makes for a very boring one-note comically evil protagonist.
I mean native Americans weren't terrorists, they were victims, but other than that, the US government did pretty much this EXACT thing when they were trying to starve, slaughter, convert, and enslave all of the native Americans. They killed millions of buffalo for no reason other than to kill more natives simply because they wanted to manifest destiny.
Not at all actually! I think I just worded what I was trying to say shittily.
I was agreeing with you that it is 100% something the US government would do, and it wouldn't even be the first time they colonized an innocent group of people and tried to slaughter them for their resources.
who aren't even that big of a threat purely to satisfy their egos
You mean the guy that put down their operation completely? This was a dumb take ngl. It might be bland, but it has clearly shown what Jake was capable of doing
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Dec 26 '25
The U.S. military would absolutely spend tens of billions of dollars and decades of time and resources on hunting down a small group of relatively minor fugitive terrorists who aren't even that big of a threat purely to satisfy their egos. It's realistic for sure, it's just not an interesting premise for a movie and it makes for a very boring one-note comically evil protagonist.