• supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    It is so fucking weird watching Biden keep trying to start WWIII with anyone who will take him up on it while the wunderplanes can't fly, they don't have the capacity to build the wunderboats, the wundermissiles don't hit anything, and the wundertanks are getting washed in Ukraine by hardware store drones. While they can't even produce enough shells to keep up a semblance of a fight in a one-front proxy war and they can't even bully the poorest country in the Middle East.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      and yet there are still idiots that will parrot the whole "oh see what the MIC has now, the secret stuff is like 20-50 years ahead of that"

      no. lol no it is not.

      • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        This is my favorite cope.

        What exactly is the deterrence value of a capability no one knows about?

        • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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          5 months ago

          I saw it so much when the Chinese weather balloon wandered over the US

          So many people I thought to be smarter than they proved themselves to be were going on about how the US had secret signals interception abilities and the only reason they didn't intercept the "spy balloon" earlier is because they were spying on the information going back to China using this secret high tech stuff

          Pure undiluted copium

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            5 months ago

            And then it turned out that they'd tracked it the entire time because it's just a weather baloon, and no one gave a shit until it turned in to a big stupid political thing.

        • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          "The whole point of a doomsday machine is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?"

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        Just you watch bozo. When The Ghost of Tallahassee kills 500,000 PLA soldiers on the first day of WWIII, we’ll see how fast they fold

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        5 months ago

        Just tell them that if it was true the specs would have been posted on the warthunder forums already.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      Liberals are dreamers who believe in the power of positive thinking. They live in a fantasy land where they can wish for things to happen without any regard for practicality or reality. Their idealist views lead them to ignore pesky details such as production capabilities and supply chains.

      • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        That definitely wasn't the original plan for Ukraine. The backfiring of Russian sanctions have made de-dollarization more plausible than ever, and NATO believed their fighting doctrines were going to work.

        I agree that the US is a rentier empire but I'm not sure they quite know that yet.

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      wundermissiles don’t hit anything

      Do you mean javelins? Because himars have been quite effective at striking civilains in Donetsk