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One of the key tools of the 9/11 attacks were box cutters.

It's said the Russians influenced - and are still influencing (per Mueller) - our elections and (said) democratic processes with a few buckets of cash and some well placed internet misinformation.

The threat of a cyber-attacked is very real.

And we're still building multi-billion-dollar 20th century-minded war ships???



> And we're still building multi-billion-dollar 20th century-minded war ships???

That's the thing that gets me. If the US is going to buy naval ships, at least get ones with a real purpose.

The ships that are good against 3rd world nations are something like patrol boats. Cheap, small, fast boats with a shallow draft.

The ships that are good against 1st world nations are submarines. Everything else will get sunk by ballistic missiles. One of the side effects of the second space race is that the knowledge to build medium range ballistic missiles is becoming increasingly more common.

To a certain extent, it doesn't matter what the US builds; the last time it's been challenged militarily was the Korean War. It doesn't matter... until it does. And at that point, it'll be too late.


But it does matter what's being built if it's the wrong thing(s) for the wrong century. We're spending more and more, yet are less and less safe.

The MIC makes out well. The rest of us less so __and__ we get to pay the MIC's tab.


What happened to Vietnam and Afghanistan?


> What happened to Vietnam and Afghanistan?

My understanding of Vietnam is that the US was defeated politically, not militarily. Afghanistan poses even less of a military threat than Vietnam.


And yet we're the ones walking away.


not just walking, negotiating with the Taliban ( what happened to "we don't negotitate with terrorists" )


We spend A LOT of lives and A LOT of money. And had nothing to show for it.

Civilians lost (their lives). Soldiers on both lost (their lives). The MIC won.


That sounds like defeat to me.




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