• GardenGeek@europe.pub
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    4 months ago

    Imho: China might be waiting to take Taiwan once the US ammo stocks are emptied due to sheer idiocy.

    • morto@piefed.social
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      4 months ago

      And preparing to sell more solar panels and EVs if oil production in the region gets lasting damage

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I had this thought, though China has been very obvious with their movements lately. I’d more suspected they were doing it try have the US back down on the Strait by reminding them of the South China Sea.

      • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        China has been very obvious with their movements lately.

        In a world of unpredictability and uncertainty, presenting your country as stable and certain is extremely profitable.

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      4 months ago

      China is not invading Taiwan. I wish people would stop regurgitating this BS and actually see what is happening politically within China. Because the US is just recklessly invading other countries - 2 this year alone - you don’t need to project this on China.

  • ikidd@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They’ve burned a century of soft power and international goodwill in 18 months.

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    4 months ago

    It almost feels like it’s a purposeful boondoggle to waste the country’s military resources on nothing, leaving it toothless and helpless.

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        4 months ago

        It really is. It is very hard to destroy it from the outside, since it was build like a castle.

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        4 months ago

        that’s the only positive.
        that violent shit country has been at war most of its existence under any president.
        another war and US war crimes is nothing new.
        nothing would please me more with it gone, the world would be a better place.

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          You were not alive during the early 90s and don’t remember what it was like to have a massive geopolitical vacuum after the fall of the ussr, do you

  • RedFrank24@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    Is it really 14 years worth of missiles if you use them in 30 days in an actual war? Surely you measure your ‘days’ worth of missiles based on expected usage in scenarios where you actually have to use them? So in reality, they used 30 days worth of missiles in 30 days, they just massively underestimated how many missiles they’d need in those 30 days.

    • Rothe@piefed.social
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      4 months ago

      The US fired 850+ Tomahawk cruise missiles in 30 days but purchased only 57 in the FY2026 budget. That is 14.9 years of production consumed in a single month.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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      4 months ago

      I’d say it depends on if you’re using the missiles effectively.

      Targeting elementary schools because the hallucination machine you decided to give command and control authorization told you to, is not effective use.

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      4 months ago

      Sadly, as always, the increase is already priced in. It was before any announcement was made of an attack. They tell their friends to buy, then they announce it and they make a nice profit.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    US citizens have suffered under awful social safety nets and a lack of universal healthcare for the trade-off of at least having a massive unstoppable military. Here we are though with its dwindling amount of munitions and the rest of the world pissed at it. It seems the US wasn’t that different from Russia in that they both have a lack of military hardware for a sustained conflict.