I was thinking about that point that people bring up about military spending with the US and Im getting suspicious that the actual money spent on the US military is a mirage suggesting a capability that far far surpasses the capabilities of the next 10 near peers of the USA.

Something just doesnt add up.

The US has spent trillions on its military yet NATO and the US is having a tough time making the fight against Russia trivial.

If the money spent is any indication of capability; then it follows that besting Russia in Ukraine should be trivial. But that is not the case.

You see… I can understand designing weapons in order to kill and win wars which Im sure that is the principles of Russian and Chinese philosophy in warfare.

But what if the US is doing that… But also allowing the profit motive to have a say? Im starting to think that the USA is blowing money on overvalued systems that are AT BEST, MAYBE a tiny bit more effective than the oppositions’ weapons.

It aint like Ukraine was short of capable fighters with covert NATO training and backing.

For all the trillions spent on NATO; Ukraine should have settled this conflict months ago. Ukraine should have defeated the Donbas rebellion before it could even find its footing.

For real though. What the fuck? Is the west genuinely a paper tiger in the most real sense?

Consider also colonial projects like Isntreal. With all their backing from the US; they havent managed to just bulldoze Palestine into the phantom realm. They STILL have to put in effort.

It’s just very strange… The realities don’t match up with the money or the talk.

The only way it makes sense is if the west develops weapons for profit first and foremost, which doesnt always mean the highest quality.

  • @lxvi
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    201 year ago

    I say this all the time but people don’t want to hear it. The US military is at least a hundred times over value for the budget. Probably over a thousand. It’s a racketeering operation. We all know this but we don’t connect the dots that this would severely hinder military capability. How much does the US have to spend to to get something done, how much would Russia or China have to pay to do the same thing? Look at Ukraine. The US spent the entire Russian budget on their little war and to what effect? Russia was able to remain in control of the situation with very minor limited operations.

    Not only that but the US has too many military obligations. It’s got its hands in too many places how much of the US’s capacity occupied with it’s many projects. People talk about the US military as if it was actually able to use it, but it can’t pay too much attention to one project without jeopardizing its thousand other schemes.

    • @GloriousDoubleKOP
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      121 year ago

      That is the other thing. It’s potentially spread too thin. Even if the US tried to focus directly on China; they would NOT be able to do something like stop Iran or Russia or hell, any local uprising overthrowing compradores in the moment.

      Seriously; to hell with the USA.