LordsFire
Internet Wizard
In that case, I guess the US has the most war-fighting experience of all the major powers!
It does, and this matters.
Sure, it's been fighting idiots with more courage than sense in the sandbox, but those Taliban, ISIS, etc, are still trying to kill you, even if all they have is AKs and IEDs, without air power, artillery support, etc.
You still learn to stay behind some damn cover, to maintain coordination, to not let the enemy flank you, to be on constant watch for grenades, etc, etc.
Historically, the USA has been the single nation most obsessed with avoiding casualties through expenditure of material instead of manpower, and as a result has more surviving veterans than any other present military. And veterans matter, as shitty as the Russians have been performing in Ukraine, everyone will agree that it was the formations that actually had some damn experience who performed at least decently, and those formations getting chewed up has been a big problem for the Russians.
The Chinese have no veterans in their active military, the Russians have been getting their conscripts slaughtered, and are so under-equipped and under-trained that the survivors only gain half the effect from experience they should anyways.
If things go hot between the US and either or both of the 'big rivals,' even with all the woke crap degrading our military, this will matter, it will matter a lot, and on the basic squad vs squad, platoon vs platoon level, the US and allies will tear the red bastards to shreds.
Give it another 10-20 years of woke corruption, and we may lose that, but that's a different story.