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See and here I thought we were already spending more on our military than the 2nd - 7th highest spending countries combined

jerlam 2mo ago
It doesn't really matter how much you spend if the leadership is incompetent.
- glaslong 2mo ago
  Seems like deposing our leadership would be the best investment strategy into hard power then. Maybe DOGE could get on that.
dzhiurgis 2mo ago
It's the cost of being world police.
- glaslong 2mo ago
  And that cost was not enough? We needed more investment into hard power head cracking policing, and reduced soft power community policing?
  - dzhiurgis 2mo ago
    Eliminate Iran and you'll eliminate Russia. They need to be stopped. You do not realize how much of suffering they are causing. Every day I bring kids to playground there's 1 or 2 Ukrainian family. Mother + child + grandmother usually. And it's likely to be worst year yet for them. You wanna send condoms to Africa while there is active genocide happening in Europe? Send your money, there are plenty of ways to donate.
    - glaslong 2mo ago
      ..... are you serious? We could have been more directly helping Ukraine already if that was the admin's priority, instead of expending $165B (so far) on a bumbling losing sidequest invading Iran. What an insane proposition. This admin has also been very publicly friendly with Russia and hostile to Ukraine every single time Zelenskyy has met with them. My heart breaks for my Ukrainian friends and colleagues. It is unimaginable suffering. Especially since the US has been more enemy than ally to them. Neutral war profiteer off their hellish struggle at best.
    - justinclift 2mo ago
      > Eliminate Iran and you'll eliminate Russia. Iran isn't the only friend and supporter of Russia. They seem to have a large adjacent neighbour helping them out, plus Nth Korea supplying soldiers.
- justinclift 2mo ago
  Relevant movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/ Still seems pretty accurate.

jerlam 2mo ago

It doesn't really matter how much you spend if the leadership is incompetent.

glaslong 2mo ago
Seems like deposing our leadership would be the best investment strategy into hard power then. Maybe DOGE could get on that.

dzhiurgis 2mo ago

It's the cost of being world police.

glaslong 2mo ago
And that cost was not enough? We needed more investment into hard power head cracking policing, and reduced soft power community policing?
- dzhiurgis 2mo ago
  Eliminate Iran and you'll eliminate Russia. They need to be stopped. You do not realize how much of suffering they are causing. Every day I bring kids to playground there's 1 or 2 Ukrainian family. Mother + child + grandmother usually. And it's likely to be worst year yet for them. You wanna send condoms to Africa while there is active genocide happening in Europe? Send your money, there are plenty of ways to donate.
  - glaslong 2mo ago
    ..... are you serious? We could have been more directly helping Ukraine already if that was the admin's priority, instead of expending $165B (so far) on a bumbling losing sidequest invading Iran. What an insane proposition. This admin has also been very publicly friendly with Russia and hostile to Ukraine every single time Zelenskyy has met with them. My heart breaks for my Ukrainian friends and colleagues. It is unimaginable suffering. Especially since the US has been more enemy than ally to them. Neutral war profiteer off their hellish struggle at best.
  - justinclift 2mo ago
    > Eliminate Iran and you'll eliminate Russia. Iran isn't the only friend and supporter of Russia. They seem to have a large adjacent neighbour helping them out, plus Nth Korea supplying soldiers.
justinclift 2mo ago
Relevant movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/ Still seems pretty accurate.