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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well. That was depressing.

Add a dash of climate change with a twist of wildfire and call it an apocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No no no this will be fineeeee it’ll all be fineeeeeee cries in world war final edition

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is literally how the US budgets its defense spending. How many of x do we need to fight China and Russia at the same time at their front door.

Edit: I should probably say equipment reserves (planes and shit) because there's a lot of dark money shit in there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Dark money” I think is a hopeful euphemism for waste, graft, overcharging, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

When the DoD fails every audit, it's that shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall reading something like "only 39%" of the Pentagon's defense budget can be accounted for.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Articles like this are just prepper wanking oil.

The US is not duking it out with any of these countries. China is too busy making all the world's plastic shit, and Russia's only weapon is the ghost of Cold War past.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, enough for a war with China.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Plus like 10 guys with pointy sticks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

US needs more ways to justify their obscene military spending in lieu of things that actually benefit American citizens

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is Russia going to do? All of their best military units are already dead both in terms of hardware and personnel.

The Russians have already gone up against Western hardware and lost so we've essentially had a preview of the war except no Western forces have been engaged in that war. So apparently Russia is going to attack an enemy who is at full fighting strength when they themselves are severely depleted and are actually at this very moment relying on drafting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what happens when too much KoolAid is taken via IV tube up the ass.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America is more than ready, considering how much we spend on the military. This article is a few years old, and definitely sensationalist, but is still an interesting read-

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/how-long-the-us-military-would-last-against-the-rest-of-the-world/

And on top of that, the US Army just started deploying robotic troop carriers, and is finishing up remote combat vehicles for the front lines so that first contact isn't with soldiers. Yes, we're going to have killer robots on the front line. And soon.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

US also spends a lot on healthcare, just because you spend a lot of money on something doesn't mean you produce good results. Not to mention that cost of production in US is an order of magnitude higher than in Russia or China

Mr. Salm said. For instance, it costs a Western country $5,000 to $6,000 to make a 155-millimeter artillery round, whereas it costs Russia about $600 to produce a comparable 152-millimeter artillery shell, he said.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lol, America spends enough to take on just about the whole world

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternatively, US could stop playing world police and start fixing its many domestic problems.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They aren't even playing world police.

Playing world police would be doing things like helping Venezuelans.

I guarantee you, every modern instance you can think of where America is "playing world police" is actually a calculated effort to maintain its global interests. Or at least, the global interests of its ruling class.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

well yeah, US is an extractive empire that's subjugating the rest of the planet for the benefit of its oligarchs