“Maintain US superiority and readiness”. Superiority over whom? Readiness for what? They’ve had 20 years to beat a bunch of goat farmers in Afghanistan and come up with a big fuckin duck egg
how many trillion dollars and they still get owned by dji bomber drones.
Excuse me sir but the Market(TM) only comes up with the most efficient war crimes
Total Cold War "gap" rhetoric. Doesn't matter how much more or more expensive shit the US has, the enemy is always right on our heels.
in a recent episode the chapos spend a solid thirty plus minutes ripping apart an excerpt from Matty Glesias' new book which is called A Billion Americans or similar title
geo-tagged bomb collars to keep them in place
You mean debt and credit?
They aren't scared, they're running an ad for the defense contractors. This is like the missile gap under Kennedy. "Trust our secret report! We're in danger! Raise spending by another $500 billion ASAP."
Don't they have like a tenth of our military budget?
But america is falling behind because we don't spend enough!!
The grift is in saying the problems the US military has because of our crumbling infrastructure, broken education system, unhealthy population, high levels of corruption, and crippled industrial capacity can be fixed with defense spending.
They also out this stuff out when they're sniffing for a handout. It's mostly fud, but china is being pretty smart with it's military investments.
The US spends billions on floating-city aircraft carriers to hold their billion dollar F-35 planes, while China just needs one aircraft carrier killer missile to balance that equation.
If the US ever got into a direct conflict with China, I am not at all confident the US would win it. I think it would be incredibly embarrassing. Hell, I think the US would lose against Iran and they're much smaller.
Mr DoD with hat in hand: These are tough times, but with budget appropriations from Congress critters like you we can get through this and continue the grift.
lol imagine outspendig china 2.5x and still getting a shittier army
6x actually, they're at ~2% of GDP while the US is at ~4%, but raw dollars it's $600B vs $100B
Don't they also have those based railguns? Can't wait untill the mechs are done.
From my understanding, like lasers, the technology has been ready for a while. There's just no way to power it on the go.
Hook Mao up to a generator and tell him about the Western dogs, and landlords?
No appetite for nuclear yet in the US. Nuclear is the clear next step in human development. Miniaturized nuclear reactors are the future.
Really love how the use US for USA in a way that makes it read like "surpassed us in" like it's personal.
yep, the thread to pull here is the Team B assessment in the '80s where they didn't like the answers from the CIA about the USSR's strength so they got together a group of bloodthirsty whackjobs to come up with wildly paranoid estimates
