Well. That was depressing.
Add a dash of climate change with a twist of wildfire and call it an apocalypse.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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No no no this will be fineeeee it’ll all be fineeeeeee cries in world war final edition
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.
“Dark money” I think is a hopeful euphemism for waste, graft, overcharging, etc.
When the DoD fails every audit, it's that shit.
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.
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.
So, enough for a war with China.
Plus like 10 guys with pointy sticks.
US needs more ways to justify their obscene military spending in lieu of things that actually benefit American citizens
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-
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.
The US military is routinely overestimated in its capabilities. How much it spends is not a point of strength. China and other countries produce their equipment at cost, getting 1 dollar of value for every dollar spent. The US with its for profit system snd regulatory capture by the Military Industrial Complex, instead massively overpays for everything from missiles to spoons.
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
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.
Full fighting strength? Have you not been seeing the news about low recruitment, depleted stockpiles, and jets falling from the sky? Couple this with the MIC markups meaning that the 800b+ budget only gets a fraction of that value in actual asset production. The US military is overwanked.
You go to the bookies with that one. See what they give you.
Alternatively, US could stop playing world police and start fixing its many domestic problems.
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.
well yeah, US is an extractive empire that's subjugating the rest of the planet for the benefit of its oligarchs
US tries to go without a war challenge: impossible.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/595752-the-us-has-been-at-war-225-out-of-243-years-since-1776
Lol, America spends enough to take on just about the whole world
Not with those 10000% markups they don't.