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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok start a war with North Korea then, see how well that works out for you

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Actually please don't because I'm not enthusiastic about the 25M NKorean civilians who will be targeted for an aerial bombardment genocide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Me neither, but I also wonder if three simultaneous wars might break the western MIC and lead to potential gains on all three fronts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It feels like more and more of our economy is becoming an explicit engine for manufacturing weapons to export abroad at a loss. Like we're just subsidizing people killing each other overseas, and not even with a particularly high success rate.

I do wonder if we'll ever see a Congress that gridlocks hard enough during a downturn to legit bankrupt one of the major defense contractors. Boeing certainly got close for a minute there, back in 2020. And if we lose a company like Boeing, we lose the ability to make advanced aircraft, which will set us back quite badly on a national stage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

a completely unpredictable consequence of making the MiC the only welfare program in the country. who could have seen this coming??