I thought these MIC assholes we’re working on this for 40 fuckin years? I thought they were making hundreds, THOUSANDS of these things? The “tomahawks” and “THAADs” and “patriots” and whatever the fuck else. It’s rather alarming how glaringly obvious and fundamental the problems with the American preparations for this war are. I understand there graft but Jesus fuckin Christ it’s like they didn’t even want to win the fuckin war. The ships are broken, we don’t have enough missiles, the bases are uninhabitable, the radars are blown up, the glorious F35’s are getting shot down by the Kuwaiti Red Baron, supposedly “on accident”, and apparently the Iranians are just getting started.
A lot of this shit seems like blocks on the bottom of the Jenga pile…
They have, but the best part about MIC is they need repeat sales, can’t have DOD saying ‘whelp, we got enough missiles now’
So missiles have volatile propellants and explosives, with expiry dates.
It’s why the first few rounds of materiel sent to Ukraine were ‘free’ since they were all close to or had already ‘expired’.
It’s amusing to me that you suggest the reason they use fuels that break down over time is not because those are the better fuels, but only to require replacement.
That said, I’m not necessarily disagreeing with the sentiment behind that, just that particular suggestion as a method for it :P
Kuwait shot down 3 F15s which shows how incompetent my country is being led right now…
Oh right I guess I confused those F15’s being shot down with the F35 that was shot down
That f35 was hit by Iran but it was able to fly back to base.
Honestly if you worked with any government entity at any level you’d see how flawed, inefficient, and broken the system is.
Government contracts out everything to the lowest builder. Yeah we get “more” for our money, which in turns fucks us in the long term as our infrastructure is compromised in different ways, and once it’s truly tested you’ll see the cracks form and the eventual collapse.
What does this mean for the US military going forward? Idk, but it gives me the same vibes we were seeing with Russia back in 2022, all of us expecting a steam roll and huge military force and it turned out to be a gigantic flop.
Government contracts out everything to the lowest builder.
This is not always the case. In reality, the bid often goes to the company with political connections.
They might also look at things like timeframe and job creation. So, supposing that all other things are equal: One company plans to use robotic labor, one is using human labor. There’s going to be a lot of pressure from unions to hire the human labor. Or one company is using imported materials and the other is using local materials.
That’s not to say that the system isn’t biased and flawed. It most definitely is. But this idea that the “lowest bidder” always gets the job is just not true.
Also, any large system is inefficient. People point to governmental inefficiency as a reason to privatize everything, but not only are large enterprises also inefficient in ways, but they must seek profit.
In reality, while many areas do have legitimate problems that could use better oversight, a decent amount of what our government does for us works pretty well, outside corruption and fascists working to break our democracy. It’s also a fact that a lot of people think a lot of things are much easier than they are.
not only are large enterprises also inefficient in ways, but they must seek profit.
This deserves repeating.
A government job often requires highly skilled union workers, thus higher pay for the workers. A corporation can find the cheapest labor, but it’s not always the best. The savings are then pocketed as profit, essentially giving shareholders a free government check while labor is poorly compensated.
It’s estimated our stock was around 2500-3000 or so, so we’ve used about a quarter or so of them.
Trump regime incompetently uses what the American people gave them authority over, alarming people who aren’t complete idiots.
Well most of the key persons are people who somebody thought were fun on TV/podcast. Others are just real estate of right wing grifters taking advantage of the situation.
Hire clowns and you get a circus.
The war is over we won! Now launch another missile! We won again! 🫲🍊🫱
The USA now have to spend billions almost trillions to resupply. Trump has bankrupted 7 businesses he will bankrupt America and do worse.
Everything the Trump cult does is to cut off our balls. From citizens turning on each other to wasting our military power on a Middle Eastern country because our Middle Eastern twin can’t share the goddamn sandbox.
Trump is a Russian spy through and through. He is doing everything to make sure there is no America to stand up against the Russian Behemoth.
Thank God for the willpower and cunning determination of the Ukrainian people and all those who went their of their own accord on the behalf of Ukraine. We are truly living in the days of a few heroes and many villains.
This is an interesting assessment of geopolitics. I would say that China is the only country that comes close to being a behemoth relative to the US though.
It’s true that America is slowly transforming into an Israeli and Russian foreign asset rather than a true democracy.
Everything the Trump cult does is to cut off our balls.
You know, there are ways of undermining US socio-economic hegemony without killing millions of people.
I’ll never get the BlueMAGA head who looks at American GOP-lead fascism and insists that the real victims of it are Americans.
This, while we’ve got multiple genocides occurring on our watch.
Absolutely sickening.
If Trump is the cause of America’s destruction, perhaps its deserved. He’s not an agent of Putin, he’s an agent of Karma
What the fuck are you talking about? Russia’s military budget is a tiny tiny fraction of the USA. What fucking behemoth? I though Russia was completely incapable of invading even it’s neighbor and losing thousands of soldiers and day and having to recruit foreigners. What Russian behemoth?!
Russia runs giant misinformation campaigns in order to destabilize western countries. And the election of Trump shows that they’re getting worth their money. And if noone stands to oppose Russia, Putin can do as he pleases. And right now, the most we get from western countries is a halfhearted attempt at supplying Ukraine. Russia is failing to take Ukraine, but they are still inflicting high losses on Ukrainian civilians. If Putin can flip western nations, he can grind away at Ukraine and then the baltics, without much opposition.
But I was told Russia was sending soldiers into battle without weapons or armor or even boots and they had to go scavenge them from the dead. Is that just not true?
Are you saying that Iran is stronger than all of Europe combined and can defeat a military literally 9x larger than Russia’s military but Europe couldn’t do anything against a Russia that has spent the last several years under crushing sanctions and losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and all its tanks, etc?
Like which is it? Is Russiana total shitshow on the battlefield and the US is a gargantuan that can’t even beat Iran? Or is Russia a behemoth that is inches away from dominating the rest of the world if it just gets a couple countries to not send money to Ukraine?
Is it that Russian disinfo is so strong that it can literally take over continents while the US has 3 aircraft carrier groups that can’t even stand up against Yemen?
Like what world do you live in where you can hold this totally contradictory positions. Pick one: Russia is a behemoth that punches 9x it’s weight and can roll over all of Europe or Russia has no way of beating Ukraine except to through wave after wave of bodies into a meat grinder without arms and armor because they’ve been devastated by the brilliance of Ukraine? It really can’t be both.
The truth, which you would know if you ever got out of your information bubble, I recommend DylanBurnsTV in YouTube by the way, is that Putin doesn’t care how many thousands of peasants or foreigners tricked into the war he has to kill to grind forwards. It’s the literal definition of zerg tactics.
On the other hand you have the US, where dear old Donny has developed a taste for regime change after Venezuela went so smoothly for him, while the US population, even MAGAts, has no desire to be dragged into a war. A proper ground invasion will not be accepted, high loss of life will not be accepted. Iran only needs to be able to fire drones at ships or bases occasionally to keep the heat on, while Trump has declared Regime change and total surrender of Iran his goal. Donny is simply delusional about what he can achieve in Iran without facing wide-spread protest.
That said, it is true that Israel and the US have complete air control and have heavily degraded Iran’s capability at conventional warfare. Something the Russians have not and will not achieve.
And that is just the domain of war-making. When it comes to disinformation campaigns, the Russians are the clear winner. Have you not read the recently released news that Orban was life-texting Lavrow updates on EU discussions on how to support Ukraine? There is a mole in the EU and Nato thanks to, in no small part, the Russian disinformation campaigns.
When I was growing up, there was a super hero named underdog. Now, I haven’t seen any reboots, or anything like that. So for anyone who’s never seen underdog, imagine one of those kids cartoons where animals are people. Dogs walking just on their back legs. That sort of thing.
Well underdog is a regular timid guy, who just seems like an accountant.
And then some danger happens, and he runs into a phone booth, superman style, and comes out as underdog.
Basically, imagine millhouse from the simpsons as a superhero.
“The Department of War has everything it needs to execute any mission at the time and place of the President’s choosing and on any timeline,” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to Reuters.
What kind of bullshit answer is that? On the other hand, what else is he supposed to say? “Oh yeah, we burned through 90% of our ballistic missiles, we’re completely defenseless right now”?
90%
I haven’t read that article, but one I read within the past day or two mentioned we’ve used around 800 or so, which is around a quarter of our stock. Okay, I hate being “that guy” so just skimmed this article, which doesn’t mention that stat, just claims 860 missiles fired.
So if that’s true, we have used a bit of our stock, but it’s not like we’re out.
I don’t understand how the pentagon can have a trillion dollar budget but not have enough tomahawks to fight China or Russia.
Was the number too low and why, if so? I don’t know.
But I would still reply to your comment that the answer to your statement is simple: If tomahawk missiles were the sole budget item, a trillion dollars would obviously purchase more. But you have no ships, tanks, aircraft, spacecraft, soldiers, training, transportation… someone made a decision to have that number of missiles along with all the other weapons and systems. Was it insufficient? That requires investigation. But talking about the entire budget is… not applicable.
One word: corruption
I pulled that number out of my ass. My point was: He’s lying, but that’s to be expected.
