For the amount of times I’ve heard the words “power of the purse” in regards to congress I have yet to see them exercise that power to restrain the empire.
If the answer is always yes are they really asking for permission?
nooooo the president can’t unilaterally go to war nooooo they need the permission of congress, obviously we would say yes because $IMPERIAL_ENEMY_OF_THE_WEEK is evil, but you need permissiooooooon
“Of course we had to increase the military budget if we want to be able to defeat China! What with the massive tariffs on all the components and materials we need for our weapons which we are 100% dependent on China for!”Almost three thousand dollars per person, that’s baby, adult and pensioner, and that’s just a fraction of the total ‘real’ military spend.
No money for healthcare tho
Shocked only 16% of republicans want a bigger military
A decent political opponent could exploit the Republicans’ contradiction between “America Fuck Yeah” and “tax is theft,” but we have Democrats instead.
“I hate taxes”
“Why do you hate the troops?”
The American public really does not love war
Iraq style? No. This is far closer to home. Expect faster reprecussions.
Venezuela is way closer and has a functional, modern army and Air Force. They have the ability to hit targets inside the United States, unlike Iraq.
Venezuela has no functional ability to strike targets in the United States. Unless Russia gave them some hypersonic missiles, they have no mechanism by which to do that outside of terror attacks. Maybe they could launch a drone swarm, but a) I doubt they have the numbers for that and being able to defend their own airspace at the same time and b) they would all almost certainly be shot down on the Caribbean before they entered American air space. Their air force is not nearly modern enough to penetrate American airspace in the slightest, nor is their navy large enough to really do anything. The most they could do to realistically hit targets “inside” the United States would be using their one submarine to maybe sink some ships in an American harbor, a tall feat but not impossible. Their military is well positioned to defend Venezuela against all attacks outside of air strikes (the modern US air fleet has too much stealth capability for the Venezuelan anti-air to pose any real threat), but they have as much of a chance striking targets inside the United States as Iraq did.
They have the ability to hit targets inside the United States, unlike Iraq.
extremely doubtful. at best they might get lucky and hit US military assets sitting off the coast
eh on the airforce, it will be gotten got, even if it were functional
Eh, I dont expect that they can counterstrike directly.
idk I really doubt they have the numbers to effectively do so unless they’ve been given some advanced Chinese shit, which would be kind of a problem on its own if they possessed it and used it (i.e. in terms of the U.S. using it as further pretext for WWIII)
I guess the democrats couldn’t have prevented it from passing but at the same time why have all these fuckers vote yes, just fucking vote no and make the republicans be solely responsible?
They’ve got MiC donors as well
yeah but if their vote literally doesn’t matter then it’s worth more to their donors to play pretend that they’re against it and not vote for it
They don’t necessarily vote just because of that, they vote because their donor can just as easily give money to their opposition, or sponsor a primary against them; these companies have money to burn for days
This is of course also all overlooking the simple fact that, being even slightly against the military in this country in any way, shape, or form is often a political death sentence
i mean this just means the donor class doesn’t even know what they’re paying these people to do
the bourgeoisie aren’t smart, just wealthy
Because there is more than likely at least 1 Boeing/Lockheed/Ratheon factory or subcontractor based in their district.
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It’s the best system we got because in your system you have one rich dude who listens to nobody and does whatever they want but in our system we got hundreds of them and everyone knows bigger numbers is better numbers
