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[–] 137 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Even more so, they did not cover how defenseless the bases were. This might shock many but Trump and Kegbreath started a war with Iran without first allowing the military to prepare. I swear, I'm not lying.

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  • [–] 82 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Important point. What else would you expect from two people whose entire careers until recently were tv personalities?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    Yeah they...

    'We' lost a THAAD radar array on I think literally day one.

    Costs like a billion dollars, or two billion, or something, fucking cost plus accounting, I don't know!

    (If you say an M1A2 Abrams costs approximately $20 million, well then thats 50 to 100 Abrams... or, roughly 1 to 2 entire Combined Arms Battalions)

    Thats the thing that tells 'our' missle defense/interceptor missles 'oi bruv you got incoming', where to go, when to fire, which THAAD interceptor launching platform in what location should fire at which incoming.

    Kind of an insanely huge deal.

    The 'Golden Dome' got its eyes and brain obliterated, on day one.

    So... 'our' entire missle defense strategy at that point was 'oh fuck, scramble together everything that can /maybe/ hit some of the shit THAAD is designed to hit, and also go to South Korea and dismantle their THAAD system so we can repair the one Iran blew up.

    Trying to analogize this... Imagine its the Battle of Britain, and Germany manages to throw V1s at every single radar site in the UK, and wholly destroy them, on day one.

    Its roughly that bad.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Have they played any simulator games. Don't start a fight until you're prepared. Politically, financially, militarily, and even environmentally.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I am expecting the millennial generation and onwards to be much more adept at running the nation. Playing roguelikes, RTS, and the application of Pokemon is pretty decent training.

    We just need our gerontocracy to finally croak.

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