Apparently the crucial moment for the US to attack was a few year ago, when they still had naval superiority. They missed their window luckily for us. Thanks to the PRC the US doesn't get to use SE Asia and Europe as their cannon fodder.

Glitterbomb@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The only thing this pentagon chief can sink in 20 minutes is a fifth of whiskey

dan69@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

That’s too modest of an amount

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

US can't even beat Ansarallah

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 1y

I remember how they bragged that the operation against Yemen was the biggest naval operation since WW2.

And they lost that, against country having no navy and no airforce.

ef9357@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

It’s not like China has to lift a finger, the US government is doing a fine job of destroying the country.

bilb@lem.monster · 12 pts · 1y

I hope that's true, but this is a common refrain with various adversaries used as the boogie-man.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-117-the-always-lagging-us-war-machine

The scam goes something like this: A weapons contractor and military-funded think tank publishes a supposedly neutral "report" or a handful "U.S. officials" run to a media outlet insisting the United States is "lagging behind" in a sector that incidentally coincides with said think tank's funders or government entity's interests. Credulous American media mindlessly repeats the claims, everyone acts panicked, treating the warning like a work of good faith, sober and objective analysis. Congress then reacts and uses media coverage to rationalize even more contracts to the very funders of the think tank that raised the warning, further bloating the Pentagon, State Department and CIA budgets. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, all the while portraying the U.S.'s gargantuan defense expenditures as paltry and insufficient.

LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y

inshallah

humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Lots of comments that "this is a false distraction to justify war on Panama". War on Panama is about interdicting Chinese commerce with Brazil and other countries south of US. Including FDI in Panama to boost its cross ocean trade volume through a railway.

This is more of a classified leak exposing US weakness and impotence. This does compromise stupid people's faith in US protections across the world, and their rulers corrupt submission to US under propaganda of US protection.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm only aware of 30% tariffs on Chinese steel in Brazil, which is same mistake any manufacturing country can make. This was under Biden. They are unpopular, and Brazil still does significant trade with China.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

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humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Someone got fired for unauthorized leak today. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-850238

Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y

Good.

rxbudian@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y

Article's gone. Here's the archive: https://archive.is/WDDOa

shiroininja@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Good thing we’re busy terrorizing our own populace!

Inucune@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

...and the US could make a China shaped nuclear crater to the west of Taiwan. Then everyone clapped.

"Bro, what if...."

IttihadChe@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

Could they though? You think China would just sit around and let the U.S fire nuclear missiles at them without intercepting them and firing their own? Why are you so sure that wouldn't just end up with a U.S sized crater north of Mexico?

Also, dismissing any predictive situation as some crazy out there "what if" is hilarious.

War games are an extremely important part of any strategy so that you don't just walk right into an easily predictable slaughter because you "don't care about what ifs".