• oDDmON@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Well. That was depressing.

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

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    11 months ago

    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.

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    11 months ago

    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.

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    11 months ago

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

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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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    So the RAND Corp 2025 plans for China are coming close, aren’t they? It is cute that USA thinks they will even manage to survive if China coupled with some Russian aid.

    US military is shit, as seen in their many false flag expeditions over decades, and are more about being flashy in TV and news media owned by themselves. US throws money stolen from other countries, and most of their actual weapon output is ineffective.

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    11 months ago

    Anyone trying to invade the US has to understand that besides the military and law enforcement, there are 330 million people with 400 million guns.

    Good luck!