• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    honestly, can’t believe that an Iran-US war is becoming an Iranian victory, with most of the US supporting Iran.

    US was always a paper tiger. the military isn’t designed for any sort of war, but designed to funnel public funds to military shareholders’s pockets.

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      Idk, it’s possible our military just always sucked but Im more inclined to believe it’s just ineffective because the people running it are absolute braindead clowns.

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        both. it was designed to be a money sink. that’s why it’s budget is greater than basically all the rest of the world military, but lost a 20+ year war against some of the poorest peoples in the world.

        It is incredibly effective against civilians though

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          17 hours ago

          Yeah, the US military is only good at murdering brown agrarian peasants. Especially their ground forces; they regularly get schooled in international exercises and they have to tell the OPFOR to take it easy on them because it hurts their feelings to not be the best.

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          A lot of military is just the massive upkeep, and thats I think where the US shines, given they can export any inflation created.

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        I don’t think its a question of skill or training.

        Iran holds all the cards.

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        You military has always been extremely capable of attack.

        But your defense has been destroyed by corruption since at least the 90s.