yup, think he said something along the lines of unless it is 500 miles form us not our problem
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I agree with that we need to fighter cyber warfare, etc. The war on terror got us TSA (40,000 strong welfare program) and 20 years later they are STILL searching grandma and they are proven to be 65% ineffective. 20 years in Iraq and we spent trillions and they are still corrupt and voila! We get no oil from them? Huh? Why don't you hear about them and oil today? (You'll cringe when you find out). The taliban again runs Afghan and they have 80B we left them. My dad fought in Korea. How'd that work out? A terrible and horrible trade deal that is sickening. We still defend them when they are a rich country. For what? Vietnam was about $$ and guess what they are a tourist destination now. 58,000 dead, many wounded and scarred, billions pissed away. How many wars has Germany fought lately? How many has China fought? I'm trying to find out how the middle class person benefits? These wars are about $$ that simple. Russia will go right back to sending LNG and oil to the euros. We will get nothing from Ukraine but likely hostility. Pols will get rich and the MI complex/contractors will soak the taxpayer for more weapons. The real enemy is at home but let them keep you distracted with bullshit proxy wars.
Correct and the "retired" Generals, etc ARE politicians and they all go to work for defense contractors so they can kill poor kids and get a fkn beach house. Sick business in all ways.
You DO have some very valid points.
I'm not sure what to do about it but people at least need to learn how it works, lol.
Unfortunately, our "military industrial complex" (remember Eisenhower's quote, "Beware the industrial military complex") has been intertwined in our economy since the end of WW2. Sometimes a good thing as it provides for tens of thousands of good paying jobs and tax income. Sometimes a REAL BAD thing, as many soldiers (usually those with little means) have died because of it. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (I believe the initial Afghanistan campaign was justified and successful until we pivoted towards Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction"), etc. In my view, the problem is that ever since WW2, we DON'T WIN the conflicts we engage in anymore? We compromise and lose. MacArthur urged Truman to authorize the use of tactical nuclear weapons against North Korea in the UN "police action" (not a war, what a joke!) when Mao sent six Chinese divisions across the Yalu River in support of North Korea in direct violation of the UN charter. Would it have been justified? Don't know, but look at the "Hermit Kingdom" now under KIm Jong-un. They're now nuclear and firing ballistic missiles at will and threatening every nation in the region and beyond, including the US. Then we had Vietnam. North Vietnam invaded the South and we got involved via the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to come to the South's defense. Great. But then we have President Johnson who ran the war from the Oval Office. "My fly boys' can't bomb an outhouse without my permission!" At that early point we already had lost the war and some 58K soldiers subsequently died because of that mindset. Then Iraq's possession of "weapons of mass destruction". Shady intelligence led to a prolonged war in which many US and other countries soldiers were killed. We should have left the brutal dictator Saddam in power to control Iran, Hezbollah and the radical Islamics now running Iraq. WE, as a country, have made MANY poor decisions in the defense (real or imagined) of countries without taking stock as to the ultimate cost to the US in terms of money and more importantly the sacrifices made by our brave men and now women in uniform. Rant over.
Yeah, it's a joke and they won't stop doing it. sad
Yup, that's the deal. I'm all for a strong military but not stupid wars for profit. The reason we don't win (technically we won every one in my view and the USA has never lost a war, that is fact) is that there wasn't anything to win that really mattered. They are for money and some minor political interests. It's great that S. Korea survived and did well but look what it got us? The soldiers who died there did it for their freedom but that doesn't really appease their families I would bet. No country is perfect and the USA is light years the greatest force for good the world has ever known and much better than having china or russia try to run things.
As an addendum to this and "hindsight is 50/50", Patton was correct "militarily" when he said after the Nazis surrendered to the Allied powers in WW2, "Give me 100,000 gallons of gasoline for my tanks and I'll go all the way to Moscow, because we'll be fighting the communist Russians sooner or later anyway". How prophetic. Look where we are now. We DON'T WIN wars since WW2, because our politicians are running them and getting a BUNCH of soldiers killed.
none are vital to our survival, that's why
