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Largest military budget in entire world
Hasn't won a war in 70+ years
Feels like there's a lesson to be learned here
Probably that we need to give the military even more money
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Not only expensive, but slow to replace. Even with the unlimited money given by the treasury these interceptors take upwards of a month each to build with the current industrial (in)capacity within the AmeriKKKan empire.
Pile on the tariffs and blocking of rare earth metals and this can balloon both cost and time fast
This is going to be one of those threads where a single person takes a post that would normally get around 10-20 replies and cranks it up to at least three times that much by never shutting up
they shut up whenever anyone asks a really incisive question. then it's crickets
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my memory is not clear, but I think they can't even replenish the launchers at sea and have to port for it
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I had not been thoughtful enough to think about thinking more thoughts thoughtfully
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When the MIC money printer actually needs to be budgeted for a war with China
"They are some of our more dollar-intensive ordnance delivery vectors"
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