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[–] 99 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wasn't aware wars were fought by large adult sons doing Greco-Roman wrestling

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  • [–] 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    That's what they took from you.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I unironically think that’s what’s behind Hegseth’s obsession with the BMI of the average soldier. While he and his ilk wouldn’t give up the modern military tech, they think it’s less important than how much the typical grunt can dead lift. It’s like Vader calling the Death Star insignificant next to the Force, except instead of a universal metaphysical power it’s the kind of shit that impresses meatheads at the gym.

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  • [–] 93 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Imagine living in 2026 and thinking that a peer conflict will involve fighting close enough to see the other guys.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    there have been trench raids in ukraine. that's maybe not strictly peer but it's closer than any conflict the US has been involved in a long time

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Those trench raids were much more common early on in the conflict before the full drone apocalypse set in. I have to imagine it's at least 100-1000x more common that a drone drops a grenade on a trench than it is for the two sides to be close enough to reach out and touch each other.

    And if we're talking about China I think it's safe to assume that their drone force would dwarf anything we've seen in Russia/Ukraine.

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    [–] 73 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    we literaly live in the era of drones and gunpowder and chuds still think war is decided by physical strength (it hasnt since the invention of the crossbow)

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  • [–] 61 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    ACTUALLY crossbows were tied to strength because your fire rate was tied to how many times you could load it in a multiple hours battle (precision was barely a factor they just shot as many as possible in the right direction) nerd

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  • [–] 38 points 1 week ago

    :themysicra-shining: actually war is predominantly determined by logistics which is why women (who consume fewer calories per spear) make superior soldiers for state conflicts.

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    [–] 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    6'3 dude from Utah watching a drone turn him into a 4'3 corpse with no legs

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  • [–] 69 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    According to the slop machine:

    The average height for 19-year-old young adults is approximately 175.7 cm (5 ft 9 in) for men and 163.5 cm (5 ft 4 in) for women in China, compared to about 177 cm (5 ft 9.5 in) for men and 163–164 cm for women in the United States.

    So yeah, it's exclusively racist prejudice based on historically colonialism-driven wealth differences.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Height is also related to nutrition so as soon as China escaped poverty the average height started to go up. This isn't even new info lol. So the US will probably see a decline

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  • [–] 66 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    There have been two instances in history where Chinese and American infantry fought one another directly and both times the Chinese soldiers won. Both instances were during the Korean war.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    you can't have any china until you finish your iran

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    [–] 60 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    It seems like all of America wants China to invade. Some yearn for freedom, others just wanna be tuff. I would love to see America have to fight a defensive war on their own soil for the first time ever. They would be taken out like field mice under a roto tiller. The most childish undisciplined spoiled brats who have it so deeply ingrained that being contrarian is the ultimate expression of personal freedom vs yknow, an army

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  • [–] 48 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    3 days without power or water and these "rugged individualist freedom fighters" would be tearing each other apart.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago

    Fucking Twilight Zone called it in 1959 with The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. No one is more suspicious and hateful of their neighbors than suburban Americans. People who fantasize about violence always fantasize themselves winning easily.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    The US got hosed pretty badly in the war of 1812. If there wasn’t a diplomatic resolution to the war, it’s likely that the US would’ve ended up as a British colony again.

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    [–] 51 points 1 week ago

    BTFO of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Iran, but sure, America is very powerful.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 week ago

    The chuds posting this shit will also repost every “Samuel Colt made men equal with guns” meme without a moment’s introspection

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  • [–] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    chinese soldiers while utahns crash their own f35s into the pacific ocean sleepi

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I don't think people from Utah are built like that correct me if I'm erong

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    [–] 34 points 1 week ago

    i-get-it

    Amerikkkan Soldier watching his friend Jim-Bob and Bryce get their necks snapped by a 5'1" martial artist from Chongqing.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago*

    I guarantee there's shitloads of big Dongbei farmboys who can outwrestle Cletus from utah or whatever

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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    [–] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I see this a lot from dudes, especially mma types who obsess over the exact height and weight as if it’s a cage fight. Even libs bring it up a lot. The thing is that a war or street fight is very different from a sanctioned fight with referees around. Anything is fair game.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago

    Anything is fair game.

    This is what cracks me up about so-called tough guys who think their MMA/boxing skills means they can pick fights out in public. You can be world champion of whatever the fuck. It all goes out the window when someone pulls a knife or a gun. The best self defense is to not get into confrontations and to de-escalate. Especially when it involves countries with militaries.

    Everybody thinks they got a plan until they get shot in the face.

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    [–] 32 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Does the original post strike anyone else as vaguely homoerotic or am I just imagining things

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    [–] 28 points 1 week ago

    that 6'3 275 lb dude from utah is gonna be out of breath about 5 seconds into any altercation

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    BMI of 35.

    You may not like it but this is what the ideal Bürgermensch body looks like.

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