this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

can't produce weapons fast enough for Israel

can't produce weapons fast enough for Ukraine

can't stop AnsarAllah from disrupting shipping in the red sea

still thinks it can beat china and iran in hot wars

oh yeah, the empire is cooked.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Absolutely Cooked™ 🍳🍚🧑🏼‍🍳🥩🥧👩🏼‍🍳🍪🥘🔪🥡🥬🥠👨🏼‍🍳🥦

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Turning a high volume, low margin industry into a low volume high margin industry.

mission-accomplished-1mission-accomplished-2 mission-accomplished

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Unironically a success for their actual aims, how else would the arms industry investors rake in all those sweet profits

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Nonsense, this is definitely the perfect time for Israel to start a war with Hezbollah, fascists are notoriously good at fighting two front wars! Hell, why not launch offensives in Jordan and Egypt as well? After all, they’re god’s chosen people, there’s no way they lose!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm starting to think a death cult obsessed with aesthetics isn't the highest form humanity is capable of taking.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

But only as an aesthetic phenomenon are existence and the world justified

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Didn't they say July this time? Correct me if I'm wrong but I think they said they would invade in June.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

funny that I just saw some slop from ukraine saying ukraine's producing more artillery or some shit than all of europe. and funny enough I believe them since wunderwaffen production's so monitized it's surprising they've produced as much as they did prior to the war

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heavy industry was something that the USSR absolutely excelled at, I would assume that much of that industry is still kicking around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't a lot of it was gutted in Ukraine?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I can't speak to present Ukrainian conditions, but there are many others here who can

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And probably a lot less than before 2014, since they lost Donbas which is a heavy industry centre (they also tried to kill it with shock therapy after coup which was one of the factors of Donbas wanting autonomy).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

You love to see it zelensky-pain zionist-despair

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If Xi opens a third front in Taiwan, or Kim in Korea, it's over. The American empire completely unravels. They should do both just to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Why would China go to war with themselves?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

those wars would be nuclear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People said the same shit about Russia and Iran.

Nuclear weapons are a paper tiger. mao-shining

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure but how short are they? I haven't kept up with how much the US was sending but weren't they literally sending more hardware than Israel could use?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Sending Israel B-52Ds and F-111s from the Davis Monthan boneyard to own the Houthis

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

And still the chickenhawks in U$A think they can take on China AND Russia.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The sad thing is that Liberals will keep pretending that the West has a bottomless pit of equipment no matter what happens, because they've been trained all their lives to think so, and cannot imagine a reality where that is not the case.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A F-35 crashes on the lawn of a Liberal Politician. A truck pulls up full of enlisted soldiers. They complain about mold in the barracks, shitty food, and how all their guns only have 3 bullets while picking up million dollar pieces of a billion dollar aircraft.

The Politician will continue to fund the creation of problem-laden "next gen" weapons platforms.

Somewhere in the Midwest a train with only one conductor at the helm derails next to the only remaining hospital in a 3 County radius.

Boston Dynamics names it's new Urban Pacification Bot "Sparky" and demonstrates the new Self Destruct feature.

A custodian at a charter school that teaches Creationism quietly paints over the Rhinos on the Noah's Ark mural because Rhinos are extinct.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Ay that last one was good

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Step 1: export production to foreign countries. Step 2: sanction and wage war on countless foreign countries

Step 3: Piss off the rest of the world

Genius plan.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

America: "Oh dear... I didn't think this through..."