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
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    6 hours 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
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      1 hour 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
    7·
    6 hours 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
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      4 hours 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!”

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 hours 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.