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  • GoodGuyWithACat [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    The US Navy is gonna find out why Americans don't have free healthcare... or something.

  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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    11 hours ago

    All the silicon, steel, plastic, chemicals, fuel, and energy that could go to anything else besides death and destruction. agony-acid

    • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]
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      10 hours ago

      You're right, but in addition I hate to think about the sheer tonnage of CO2 that has been burned by a year of fighter jets dropping bombs and tanks rolling through refugee camps.

      And that's before we even talk about the long-term effects of that much lead and depleted uranium sitting in the ground.

  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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    12 hours ago

    Japan had this really fucked up society around the time of WW2 and before. The military was all over the region, attacking stuff, starting little wars everywhere. The average person had basically no say in what the military was doing. Not even their legislature had any influence.

  • buh [she/her]
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    14 hours ago

    lol I hope your fucking country goes bankrupt

    i-think-that inshallah-script

  • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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    14 hours ago

    Though no U.S. Navy warship has taken damage from the attacks – although there have been claims to the contrary

    lol, they got hit.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      13 hours ago

      There was that ship that had to withdraw for repairs for unknown reasons but they claimed it totally wasn't because it got hit. Imagine how hard the usn will get hit against a near peer enemy with modern anti ship missiles and drone swarms when they're already struggling this hard against a handful of drones and 70s era hand me down AShMs from China and Iran.

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      11 hours ago

      I don't believe they have. Yemen's loose attacks have all be repelled and they probably don't want to actually hit a ship since that'd mean actual occupation and full scale invasion of their country

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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    14 hours ago

    The profit margin on these weapons are in the ballpark of 300-3000%, and every middleman on materials and parts along the way does the same song and dance for more handouts.

    • enkifish [any]
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      13 hours ago

      The question is, have the bourgeoisie any capacity left for self discipline? Once a shooting war starts with a peer power, will they be able to forgo these juicy profits to ensure their own survival? Their response to the climate crisis says no, but that's still a rather abstract problem to most people. The COVID response also say no. Will the fear of dying in a Chinese prison camp finally do it?

      • miz [any, any]
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        13 hours ago

        Eric Schmidt breaking rocks in a dusty jumpsuit timmy-pray

        • BobDole [none/use name]
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          11 hours ago

          The Russian military industrial complex is (at least mostly) state owned

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            11 hours ago

            Yeah but the state is mostly boug owned. I've heard it framed as Russia having a national industrial boug while the NATO blob has an international financial boug. The Russian boug have to cooperate to protect themselves from predation by the international financial boug.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    12 hours ago

    Good thing we're also sending them to ukraine and in response to us telling them to slow down because they're shooting them faster than we can make them with limited progress to show for it and in exchange ukraine keeps blaming us for not fighting their war for them hard enough.

    • Runcible [none/use name]
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      11 hours ago

      ukraine keeps blaming us for not fighting their war for them hard enough

      Ukraine is very much fighting NATO's war