If we cannot compete with China now militarily, we will never be able to compete with them. There is no amount of spending that can make up for stupid people and bad prioritization.
I would argue that the stupid people and bad prioritization are secondary to the fact that the US military is fundamentally a for-profit enterprise. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc... they're not making weapons first and foremost to be effective. They're making them to be profitable. The entire MIC and their lobbying is focused on funneling money to capitalists. Effectiveness on the battlefield is inconsequential.
The military, as must all aspects of society under the capitalist mode of production, exists to enrich the bourgeoisie. The US military is only powerful because American capitalism (really, the exploitation that undergirds it) generates so much wealth that we can throw ungodly amounts at it.
Capitalism is great at (eventually) digging its own grave. I think the US is getting set up for one of the most spectacular military humiliations in human history (inshallah). It will Cannae look like mild sauce.
If we cannot compete with China now militarily, we will never be able to compete with them.
The people at the top are figuring this out as well. There was a think-tank OP-Ed that basically said this except with the idea that "we need to fight them in the next 10 years. "
We needed to fight them 10 years ago, if that is what the self destructive dipshits want to do.
USA still trying to build hypersonic missiles while Russia has already used them in battle, and China and the DPRK have them available.
Reeks of desperation
They still won't get them built them because the Defense industry pays like shit compared to Big Tech, and you can't smoke weed.
Also, they can't even get parts for weapons that are already in production.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3465231-raytheon-ceo-warns-of-delays-in-stinger-missile-production/#:~:text=Raytheon%20won%E2%80%99t%20be%20able%20to%20ramp%20up%20production,Hayes%20told%20investors%20during%20a%20Tuesday%20earnings%20call.
Well, the insane thing is that $10 billion is really not that much money, so these small numbers don't really matter either way. $10 billion to build two nuclear power plants wouldn't offset the CO2 cost of a single US aircraft carrier fleet and the US has like ~12 of those. Anything REAL would be hundreds of billion $$$ directly for clean energy and hundreds of billion $$$ decrease for military spending at the same time.
smashes military industrial complex...
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... button
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$8 billion is $21,917,808 a day for a year. $913,242 an hour. $15,220 a minute.
:check-please:
I just woke up and for a second I thought this headline was from the trump administration. Truly there has been no difference between Biden and trump, it's incredible how similar they've been
despite having a military budget 3 times that of china, the us still eats shit :xi: :xi-lib-tears:
Cotton is what the kind pretended Trump actually is like and I’m terrified that he will inevitably be President
Doesn’t this outweigh the money Biden’s plans set aside for climate change?
If all politics are sexual pathology, I can't help but think the locus of right-wing thought is just compensating for something.
