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minus-squareLushed_Lungfish@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoActually, 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.
minus-squareAnomalocaris@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agochecked 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
minus-squaregdog05@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 hours agoThe expense and waste is the point. Winning never was.
minus-squareAnomalocaris@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 hours agowar is profitable, winning is irrelevant, soldiers lost are replaceable.
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.
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
The expense and waste is the point. Winning never was.
war is profitable, winning is irrelevant, soldiers lost are replaceable.
The true Rule 34.