Memes

I see someone got the joke. 😂

Here’s some bombs. Don’t blow them all in one place kid.

Just send me through space in an unshielded craft please. I'll just give myself up to the space ghosts.

Anthony Blinken said "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.". The US sure lives by the law of the jungle in international relations. Although this has been the case for centuries, this style of foreign policy really got going with WWII. Our country's war materiel production was behind what was necessary at the time to participate in a 2-front global war. Soldiers were training with cardboard weapons, but because we hadn't outsourced our production offshore, we created an economy based on war that was so lucrative for business that that economy has lasted to this day. Such is it that a war economy itself can conquer a nation. Eisenhower warned about this in his farewell address.

There's protecting a country from invasion, and then there's basing a country's whole economy on a continuation of arms sales. The latter provides a perverse incentive to destabilize regions in order to maintain demand for the American arms industry. In the case of defense of the US against invasion, are you honestly suggesting that the country with the highest private gun ownership rate in the world has that to fear in any scenario? Even if we did need a military at all, one that could appropriately be called a department of "defense" would be a tenth of its current size.

Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)

If you aren't ready for war, you get conquered by a war monger. If you want to be at peace, you must be ready for war against those who want to conquer.

Bottom of the ocean. Better yet, recycling plant.

I mention the space industry because there's a lot of overlap between that and the defense industrial complex in engineering terms. NRO had a couple hubble-sized telescopes laying around they built and didn't use. USAF has their own space shuttle. They're currently planning to update all of our ICBMs. They could move other payloads to orbit. We don't even need ICBMs, with submarine-launched missiles, even the new ones will be obsolete bulls-eyes for nukes in the midwest.

A single F35-L2 could completely dominate the nearest 300 kilometers of airspace uncontested. The best trained Ukrainian pilot would take, at the shortest, half a decade of practical training and years on multi-million dollar simulators to fly one. Not enough time to retake Ukraine from the pieces of Russian shit military. Meanwhile Israel have been training on F35s for the past 20 years.

There's another poster here who is hinting that Russia are the good guys, and I wouldn't be surprised if this person were hinting at that also rather than trying to say Palestinians are evil.

I wholeheartedly disagree with that sentiment, but it's what some of the people in this thread are saying.