America’s National Security Wonderland - American Affairs Journal
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While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something it’s never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, when taken together, are in fact vastly superior to America in terms of industrial capacity. This on its own would be an incredibly tough row to hoe, even at the best of times. The times, however, are not particularly good: the U.S. military currently finds itself in a state of acute crisis, beset by a number of intractable problems that neither the political nor military leadership have been able to solve...
  • cimbazarov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    I mean the US rarely uses its own soldiers for expanding its imperialism doesnt it? Its about recruiting the locals from its colonies and using them to overthrow or suppress any movement of self-emancipation. Helps that they keep these colonies poor so that there are plenty of desperate people to recruit from.

    They failed to do this in China though which is a problem for them

    • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
      15·
      1 day ago

      They do it because they cant afford the manpower to do it themselves. European colonial powers did the same thing once their empires got big enough. Its just not as effective as it used to be. Soldiers in the modern day are super expensive to train and equip and it takes time too.

      It’s Ukraines issue. Their conscripts are barely trained so they die faster, and eventually theres no one left to conscript.

  • Burningmeatstick@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    2 days ago

    It’s quite obvious that a war with China will be the empire’s final war. The only question then becomes, are they willing to nuke the world over it?

    • SkingradGuard@lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      1 day ago

      This current crop of leadership is very dead set on war with China. I wouldn’t be surprised if they start pushing out propaganda exclaiming “nukes aren’t that bad! At least we’ll be destroying those freedom hating Reds!”

      • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        22 hours ago

        “Maybe every single one of these nukes is a dud” is not only extremely unlikely, but an unacceptable risk for anyone to take. Libs are testing out the same line with respect to Russia, trying to gas up the U.S. and Europe into starting WWIII over Ukraine.

      • Burningmeatstick@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        24 hours ago

        The problem with nukes is that just one of them is enough to cause tremendous damage. It’s the same line of thinking NAFO freaks have in invading Russia. Even if just 1% of America’s nukes work, they can kill tens of millions with them

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 days ago

    It won’t be long before the USs entire strategy of projecting hard power will be to arm nukes. Let’s hope those all become obsolete soon too.