The U.S. outspends the next 8 countries combined on defense innovations. Even then, Russia and China are UN security councilors, along with France, US, Britain. The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore. The U.S. is fine. Now, domestically-speaking, no... not at all.
I just spoke to god. She said she had nothing to do with that.
Which does not at all address the changing geopolitical dynamics. We outspent everybody by a zillion dollars when we only had one Tier 1 adversary. Now just looking at specific resources of our two Tier 1 potential adversaries it is a whole new ballgame. Geopolitical power is not about actually fighting a war. It is about projecting power to such a degree that you don't have to fight one.
I just spoke to god. She said she had nothing to do with that.
You spoke to her? Your idea of god is certainly not the same as mine.
Well, maybe if you'd learn Arabic you could talk to Her too.
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Dude
Its not just spending, the US Navy tonnage is actually bigger than the next 13 Navies – combined! Money is the root of it all, if you don't spend, you don't get. If you do spend ...you do get. Its that simple!
(Unless you're the peasantry, of course. Wherein you have to spend whether you get or not. Ifs a ****ed up world.)
Obama's Middle Eastern god? I have no interest in talking to that incompetent powerless cross-dressing pansy of a man-made deity.
Obama's Middle Eastern god?
I have no interest in talking to that incompetent powerless cross-dressing pansy of a man-made deity.
... It is not at all comforting to see Military strategy reverting to "the single great war" premise because that is not the deck of cards we are being handed. That sounds more to me like the Military's oft referred to in this thread tendency to strategize around what they think they can pull off as opposed to the actual strategic environment they are most likely to face. ...
Really?
Did you know that Jesus Christ was born in the Middle East?
Did you know that "Christianity" is one of the "Abrahamic" religions and that Abraham was from the Middle East?
Or are you one of those people who still believe that Mr. Obama is an Islamic Kenyan Communist?
That's OK because God is always willing to talk to you. The trick is that you have to learn to listen.
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The idea that this level of dominance might wane was hardly alien to the conversation on U.S. foreign policy in the early 1990s. Liberal internationalists suggested that this represented a moment, not unlike the immediate wake of World War II, in which the United States could establish a rule-based system that would endure beyond the dwindling advantage enjoyed by American military power.
Surprisingly, many of these things worked out. Germany and Japan remain (relatively) docile and harmless. India is feeling its way to closer alignment with the United States. Russia is struggling to maintain control over borderlands that it had ruled for centuries prior to 1990. Even China, which has enjoyed nearly uninterrupted high economic growth (at least until a few weeks ago), and which has engaged in a remarkable military buildup, has only begun to probe the political and military weaknesses of the existing order in the East and South China Seas. As a variety of theorists pointed out in the early 2000s, some kind of US unipolarity might endure for a while.
But the appropriate question should be “will the offset (and various other policy initiatives) help maintain U.S. military superiority?” not “will it help ensure U.S. military supremacy?” Moving forward, the U.S. military will need to navigate a world in which it enjoys advantages that are merely large, but not overwhelming. That’s not such a bad place to be. For better and worse, the 1990s are gone.
The defense budget is up to 715 BILLION a year. If that won't do the trick, the problem isn't a lack of money. It's in the leadership and their decision-making.
Of course.... having a less-than-perfect military is a good reason to maintain meaningful ties with allies and not pointlessly provoke potential enemies instead of running around waving our dicks in everyone's faces, which seems to be the Trump strategy.
No kidding. That's pretty much always the case, for everyone, everywhere. That's why the best strategy involves avoiding trying to fight multiple major powers simultaneously and alone.
Obama has shown open disrespect for God's chosen people the Jews but he has shown mixed approval of beliefs in Christianity as well as in Muslim beliefs.
Yes, the U.S. Military Is In Decline. And There Is No Need to Panic
I'm fully convinced you are intentionally missing my point at this juncture. The U.S. would never lose a hot war with someone, particularly fighting in a third party country, now or in the near future. Furthermore, Russia and China are UN SECURITY COUNCILORS WITH THE US. Stop regurgitating and vomiting corporate media and military-industrial complex propaganda and fearmongering. Its ****ing stupid and lacks all common sense.
So quit with your fearmongering. The U.S. is not about to be imminently destroyed by "ebul Comeez n Rooskies". Just, stop. Stop it.
Edit: Also, a post you seem to have missed that covers the other bases you want to talk about that is divergent from the subject matter I'm discussing:
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