• drhodl@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Agreed. Drumpf is Pootins “man”*on the inside. Look to him to delay and prevaricate any NATO decision, and generally try to sabotage them

      • Drumph is NOT a man. He’s a cowardly little orange shit weasel.
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      5 hours ago

      Why do you think that? How would losing half the military assets and technology would benefit NATO?

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        Half the military and technology assets that won’t ever actually be used to help NATO under Trump.

        He’ll veto every action that goes against Russia… Which is what NATO was originally formed to do…

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        The US is great at spending money in the military, but it absolutely sucks at actual war.

        Look how they wasted trillions in Afghanistan to surrender to the Taliban.

        the US military exists solely to funnel tax payer money to military shareholders.

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          2 hours ago

          Actually, if you’re curious, look up how many wars the US has actually outright won on their own without being part of a coalition of allies.

          The answer is shockingly few.

          Even their great revolution needed help from an, at the time, true superpower i.e. the French.

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            2 hours ago

            checked a wiki page about that.

            it’s frankly embarrassing how much the US military actually sucks.

            likely human history most expensive military, and a complete waste of resources

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          4 hours ago

          I’ll grant you it’s a big racket, it’s corrupt, it’s inefficient, but I don’t think it’s a skill issue.

          https://youtu.be/d5v6hlRyeHE

          I wouldn’t consider failing to win the hearts and minds of the local populace using violence a military failure rather than a policy failure.

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            4 hours ago

            Ukraine showed that modern warfare is a different game than it used to.

            it’s s resource war, cheap drones can cause lots of damage, and it is far more costly to fight them. long range rockets, v defense systems…

            and given that US have painfully expensive toys, they won’t be able to hold of again a cheap enemy.

            yhea, Maybe the F22 can outmanoeuvre another airplane in a dogfight, but who tf needs a dogfight? the enemy can just launch a volley of self guided missiles that costs 100x to intercept.