roundog (@roundog)

Anonymous ID:PFDZ3Dd1 Mon 14 Apr 2025 17:49:31 No.503211233 >>503210054 >Biden purged the enlisted >Trump term 1 did nothing to reverse anything Obeezy did It's quite obvious when you look at it as a timeline. >Obama 8 years of sabotage. >Trump 4 years with no change. >Biden 4 years with more sabotage than Obama. That's 16 years lost. Unless you fill the ranks of grunts, your pool of NCOs and other officers gets smaller as well. Given that a typical soldier doesn't even serve 25 years that is a lot of lost time. >Conventional munitions we produce 1/3rd that the developing economy of Russia It's closer to 1/5th, for artillery about 1/10th. And we see people thinking that a war with China is possible... War, as soon as the frontlines stabilize or slow down a bit, will turn into an industrial tug of war. If the west can't beat, let alone match, Russian output, then what are the odds when they face off with China (having Russian support this time)? >We have an airforce where most of the airframes are at the bitter end of their life cycle And the most unfortunate aspect of that is that the replacement, the F35, is already needing more maintenance with a third of the fleet being set up for early retirement. There needs to be an overhaul in military procurement (and that goes for the entire west) >>503210884 >I’ve been saying for years we should have taken down china before they became a undefeatable threat and people laughed. As long as they produce good video games I’m okay with the karmic retribution here Yup. I mean, the best solution would probably to seek cooperation with China as that would increase the size of the proverbial pie we can all indulge in. But if the goal is confrontation, as it has been since at least Zbignievs time, it is unwise to advertise it decades in advance and then stand there with a pikachu face when China (and Russia) have prepared for it while the instigating party has not.