• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Actually, if you’re curious, look up how many wars the US has actually outright won on their own without being part of a coalition of allies.

    The answer is shockingly few.

    Even their great revolution needed help from an, at the time, true superpower i.e. the French.

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      9 hours ago

      checked a wiki page about that.

      it’s frankly embarrassing how much the US military actually sucks.

      likely human history most expensive military, and a complete waste of resources

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          2 hours ago

          it was always to justify the defense budget to go into the pockets of the contractors, the politicians and the lobbyists.

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            thats why they do these aggressive recruitment propaganda every few years, having a movie like top gun maverick helped alot last year and propaganda like business insider video of military jobs. and yes most of them are aimed at POCs. when obama came into power, recruitment/military was actually downsizing in a peacetime military, but trump reversed it the moment he was in his first time. i was in forums where it was when obama was in charge, it was getting harder and harder to get into the military(people were getting denied left and right for medical and financial and crime reasons that mightve seen consideration during the bush era), then i magically reversed the moment he left office.