• 🍉 Albert 🍉
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    1 day ago

    both. it was designed to be a money sink. that’s why it’s budget is greater than basically all the rest of the world military, but lost a 20+ year war against some of the poorest peoples in the world.

    It is incredibly effective against civilians though

    • Jännät@sopuli.xyz
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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, the US military is only good at murdering brown agrarian peasants. Especially their ground forces; they regularly get schooled in international exercises and they have to tell the OPFOR to take it easy on them because it hurts their feelings to not be the best.

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      19 hours ago

      A lot of military is just the massive upkeep, and thats I think where the US shines, given they can export any inflation created.