i, for one, would like to see more air defense assets going to Ukraine
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fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 weeks agoHow dare you threaten the poor defense contractors.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
Genuinely why bother at this point
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
“hey why bother going against a nationalist land grab? i am the real antiimperialist” gee i wonder
most of the rest can be made in europe, even if it would require some scaling up of production
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
nationalist land grab
Is that what you actually think this is? Russia, famously lacking land.
If your “defence of democracy” requires replacing a democratically elected government with a nazi puppet regime, supporting that regime as it commits 8 years of terrorism against its minorities, and forcing it to kidnap old men to the front lines…maybe you’re not actually doing anti imperialism? Just a thought. Like when the swastikas came out and the genocide in Palestine kicked off, you should have known this.
But all that aside, why bother from a practical standpoint? The war is over. Also you will not be scaling up domestic weapon production to any meaningful degree, because we, the US, blew up your pipeline and ate your energy sector, and now Volkswagen can’t even keep operating.
2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
shut the fuck up you stupid liberal. fuck off
Death to America
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
The US is helping Israel annex Gaza and West Bank as we speak, spare us the “opposing nationalist land grabs” nonsense.
Kuori@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
oh look a sexist nazi
what a surprise
TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
can see you have came here with your instance-issued portable public opinion influence brigade. will you bitch and moan again when you get defederated from another instance?
Look, I originally came in here to look at dunks on my-hero and then I saw it back in my feed with like, quadruple the number of comments it had when I originally saw it.
We’re not brigading just because we’re all in agreement that someone calling for regime change in some of the only countries and organizations who are resisting a modern Holocaust is a bad person undeserving of respect. I just wanted to read some Elon Musk hate and you decided to talk about how the Arabs should have their leaders chosen by the enlightened white Westerners.
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I, for two, would like to see the same
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
also, entire military is just under 1tn - all of it, including completely nonmovable things like nuclear silos and submarines. ripping enough copper from the walls to get 2tn would involve massive cuts to social security and healthcare, and maybe education. but nooo heavens forbid that progressive tax on income be introduced
frezik@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
The DoD itself spent $820B in 2023. To get over $1T, you also have to include veterans benefits, like the VA hospital system.
The full bill for Vietnam started coming 20 years after the fact as all those veterans got older and started heavily using the benefits they were promised. From the start of the War on Terror, we’re about at that same point right now. So unless the plan is to rug pull those benefits from people who really need them, then there’s going to be a huge bill coming that no amount of efficiency trimming can ignore.
If Democrats did the rug pull, Republicans would cry bloody murder. If Trump did it, they will cheer him on while veterans suffer.
Kuori@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
oh nooo all the butchers who went overseas to shoot at brown children will suffer for their choices
what a terrible fate for a bunch of terrible people
frezik@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
While I understand the sentiment, US veterans are in many ways victims of the capitalist system themselves. At 18 years old, they’re pressured by family or school administration to go into the military. They may have grown up poor and have no viable career path once they leave high school. College is a pipe dream. Combine that with recruiters who will use every high pressure tactic in the book and outright lie to get you to sign (“sure, you can get leave later on to be the best man at your friend’s wedding”). All this is happening before they’re legally allowed to drink, and they certainly haven’t finished developing into their adult self.
They go off to the military. Most will get through with nothing more traumatic than boot camp (which can be pretty traumatic) and some shitty food, but some will die, and others will be injured or have PTSD.
Keeping those services and improving them is part of cleaning up our mess. So is dismantling the capitalist system that creates more of those veterans.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Pulling the rug out from under exactly when they need it most is almost the most based of praxis; the government giving them the wall is 100% based praxis.