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The capitalist will sell themselves their own undoing, but the profit margins will be amazing.

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All those overpriced bazinga tech toys were intended for dabbing on people that can’t meaningfully fight back.

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Indeed, and if you look back at the start of the war in Ukraine it’s pretty clear that’s what US thought of Russia. Now they’re realizing they’re fighting a peer competitor and it’s not going well.

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more charitably to US planning you could also conclude that America wanted to make the war costly for Russia but doesn’t actually care about Ukrainian ownership of the Crimea or what happens to Ukraine

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For sure, but even with that in mind I would argue that things have gone catastrophically wrong for US.

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the doctrine assuming control of airspace should tell us something about what the military is for and does in practice

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I fucking hate the term “warfighter”. Fucking cult behavior, the Marines are the worst military branch for that.

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it’s better for recruiting than “civiliankiller”

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Half the military budget is from feds getting their kidneys grifted out of them by contractors (remember those 50k dollar trashbins?)

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