They were bigger than previous years but yea. I remember seeing that 200k thousand troops were deployed and thinking “that not enough to invade Ukraine” and assumed it was just media shit. When they actually did and fell on their face the first few months I felt a little vindicated for that take lol
That doesn’t line up w the graph and it’s doesn’t go into much detail. Is the bls(source of the Bloomberg graphic) also fudging how it classifies inputed vs data or is that source you posted weird.
You just made that up
Yea the dweeb 🤓 part of my brain is saying “that seems like a stupid way to poison people”
Im not doubting the veracity of it but the opioids in flour thing with the “humanitarian” aid in Gaza is bizarre. Part of me thinks that the jackbooted mercs were smuggling drugs on the side and mixed up the bags like a bunch of idiots.
Edit. Thinking more w my tinfoil hat. western intelligence agency’s/governments might care less about how this new organization is meant to control gazans and just want another black box for laundering money or we. The “charity” is way more opaque than things like the world food program or unwrap.
You are dense. He is doing dog whistles for the left and you are sticking you fingers in your ears.
Humvees and MRAPs, which admittedly are probably not that relevant outside of a COIN context, but if they’re getting canceled
The US is replacing both with the jltv they have already manufactured 10k of them?
this one’s merely “paused”, but the new self-propelled artillery program - the 4th in a row one to not go anywhere
I think Ukraine has shown that very advanced heavy spgs have a lot of problems. The German one had maintenance issues. Guided artillery seems to have been much to costly to justify its limited combat effectiveness.
Better than libs walking around waiving American flags
people who are “really smart” and “know what they are talking about” keep posting about a nato exercise but litterally cannot read the article they are posting that says the 100th air wing **Based in the uk **is going. screaming on the inside reading post after post
the focus on here has ben on impacts in Israel. The Israeli air defense net is more robust, we are not really ingesting a lot of the destruction wrought by Israeli stand off munitions. The damage is isreal is great but I think a certain amount of media diet stuff is playing into how we are seeing the conflict. Maybe im just being doomer
They are doing all of those thing + running sorties to intercept Iranian drones. They also operate early warning radar stations throughout the region that are tracking Iranian ballistic missiles. the us is doing everything besides launching ground attack missions.
Yea that’s why I said “more active”. I’m not trying top downplay the usa’s culpability my bad
The other angle is Israel wants Iran to hit us targets to drag the US into a more active role.
Are there no aircraft shelters at Diego Garcia? It is pretty far away from everything I guess.
Hogg out at dnc
Not really new that’s how tow missiles an a lot of other systems are guided. The volume of it is new but yea.
I know that’s what makes it completely insane. There is just a lack of thinking by people
Prob starts through a trade agreement like NAFTA but w China and Vietnam or something. They may never fully unify( I’m thinking a degree or two more separation compared to HK) but be so intermeshed it doesn’t matter imo.