Sure you could, if you are desperate, insane and suicidal.
Maybe you are...your empire is in steady decline as China power increases.
USA cannot fight a war of any scale and duration for at least a decade because its war material production is incapacitated by the Chinese ban on export of refine rare earths.
https://stacker.news/items/1409989
https://stacker.news/items/1410048

> Its military are incapacitated by the Chinese ban on export of refine rare earths

Wanna bet whether we can land a nuke on Beijing?

ZhangJiao

USA has lost the trade war with China and is facing imminent insolvency.

Its military are incapacitated by the Chinese ban on export of refine rare earths- USA cannot fight a war of any scale for at least a decade.

Trump is using every trick to gain and hold power and respond to the erosion of US hegemony.

The oldest trick in the book is scapegoating minorities and creating division within the population which ultimately provides the perfect pretext to introduce a state of emergency and cancel democracy.

Politics_And_Law

Are We Sleepwalking Into Mass Deportation?

Yermin

USA has lost the trade war with China and is facing imminent insolvency.
Its military are incapacitated by the Chinese ban on export of refine rare earths- USA cannot fight a war of any scale for at least a decade.
Trump is using every trick to gain and hold power and respond to the erosion of US hegemony.
The oldest trick in the book is scapegoating minorities and creating division within the population which ultimately provides the perfect pretext to introduce a state of emergency and cancel democracy.