• @oDDmON
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    521 year ago

    Well. That was depressing.

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

    • @pensivepangolin
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      71 year ago

      No no no this will be fineeeee it’ll all be fineeeeeee cries in world war final edition

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      141 year ago

      “Dark money” I think is a hopeful euphemism for waste, graft, overcharging, etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I recall reading something like “only 39%” of the Pentagon’s defense budget can be accounted for.

  • @[email protected]
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    281 year 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.

    • YⓄ乙
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      -61 year ago

      Yep and US is the saint trying to fix world hunger and eliminate poverty.

  • Echo Dot
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    181 year 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.

  • Acedelgado
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    171 year ago

    America is more than ready, considering how much we spend on the military. This article is a few years old, and definitely sensationalist, but is still an interesting read-

    https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/how-long-the-us-military-would-last-against-the-rest-of-the-world/

    And on top of that, the US Army just started deploying robotic troop carriers, and is finishing up remote combat vehicles for the front lines so that first contact isn’t with soldiers. Yes, we’re going to have killer robots on the front line. And soon.

  • @Kbobabob
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    71 year ago

    Lol, America spends enough to take on just about the whole world

  • Uvine_Umarylis
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    Ehh, instead work with the EU & UK and offer their logistics network so they can handle Ukraine, secretly provide Taiwan nuclear warheads & start a Cuban missile crisis 2 & force a real conversation.

    Pacific too risky? Expand A2AD capabilities to Asian allies en masse, it’s gonna all be defensive wars after all

    We (Americans) should not basically have to pay for their defense

    • @ThePyroPython
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      Um, please can we not bet the future of humanity on there being a Chinese equivalent of Vasili Arkhipov during the blockade of Cuban Missile Crisis 2: Chinatown.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov

      Let’s not sabre rattle again only to carefully de-escalate back to where we are.

      • Uvine_Umarylis
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        Nah, if you don’t take chances you don’t get results lol, Minutemon for Taiwan 2024!!!

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      provide Taiwan nuclear warheads & start a Cuban missile crisis 2

      I didn’t realize that China had put nuclear missiles so close to the US, similar to the way the US put missiles in Turkey, where are they?

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        Why would we be negotiating for that??? There is no point in range anymore.

        Instead, we’ll be negotiating for shipping rights to grade B Chinese ghost city apartments & skyscrapers to bring to the USA on the cheap!!!

        They have a lessened property crisis, we have more housing for cheap that wasn’t built by our evil & corrupt government lol, everyone wins!!!

        Likely though we’d just end up negotiating the removal of nuclear weapons over a final arrangement for Taiwan’s independence or some variation of subservience (think China’s 9 points plan 1981 but with more brexit North Ireland vibes), fentanyl precursors to Mexico, and a potential final arrangement for the Korean peninsula’s path to unification, boo

  • @jordanlund
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    -191 year 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!

      • @jordanlund
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        -101 year ago

        It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

    • Ooops
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      101 year ago

      …of which one half is brain-washed into wanting to kill the other half, while welcoming any wanna-be dictator with open arms and with a lot of potential applicants for the Darwin-Awards.

      Sounds scary… but not for an invader.

      • MaggiWuerze
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        Yeah, we would likely see large portions joining the invader after an extensive info war preceding the attack