you have a top-heavy, heavily centralized economy, and a culture that's almost exclusively an honor society.quality and innovation are almost always going to take a backseat to corruption and face-saving in that kind of environment...
That assumes we continuously advance. Obviously, Trump is doing a really good job so far, but if the nation backslides at all… I certainly wouldn’t say we were heading in a good direction militarily before
Our Main Battle Tank dates from the early 1980s, and is the bastard love child of a 1960s project. Our main service rifle is a 1960s Air Force survival rifle with a giggle switch. Our Navy consists of old ships, newly built old ships, and new ships that are going to have to be decommissioned early.
We've been resting on our laurels for quite a while now, bubba.
Seems funding and training the natives mostly either suck or they turn against us later on.. just like how the usa trained the south vietnamese. I mean, they failed for different reasons. But the afghan army, half the afghan army are retards, high on drugs like khat... and are filled with taliban sympathizers by the time we withdrew lol.
tbh this was pretty obvious. The Taliban can't use all the hight tech gear, but they can make some mad cash by selling them to Iran and China (and anyone else) to study/reverse engineer.
The one good thing about this is that what the Taliban got was second-tier stuff fit for the Afghans. Their air force is Cessnas and Super Toucans, not F-35s.
This is one of those things that you tell normies "this is happening" and they're like "what are you James Bond or something?"
It's just common sense.
China has probably already duplicated all the $70 bn gear biden left.
You can probably buy it on taobao for $20
Normalfags didn't believe it at first. It was fun watching their entire world crumple.
Plus an extra kickback to the DNC, I'm sure.
you have a top-heavy, heavily centralized economy, and a culture that's almost exclusively an honor society.quality and innovation are almost always going to take a backseat to corruption and face-saving in that kind of environment...
Then it’s a good thing for them that they can get access to all that quality gear we abandoned, isn’t it?
yeah, but the upside is it means they'll always be (at best) one step behind us in terms of combat readiness...
That assumes we continuously advance. Obviously, Trump is doing a really good job so far, but if the nation backslides at all… I certainly wouldn’t say we were heading in a good direction militarily before
this is true.
Our Main Battle Tank dates from the early 1980s, and is the bastard love child of a 1960s project. Our main service rifle is a 1960s Air Force survival rifle with a giggle switch. Our Navy consists of old ships, newly built old ships, and new ships that are going to have to be decommissioned early.
We've been resting on our laurels for quite a while now, bubba.
Seems funding and training the natives mostly either suck or they turn against us later on.. just like how the usa trained the south vietnamese. I mean, they failed for different reasons. But the afghan army, half the afghan army are retards, high on drugs like khat... and are filled with taliban sympathizers by the time we withdrew lol.
tbh this was pretty obvious. The Taliban can't use all the hight tech gear, but they can make some mad cash by selling them to Iran and China (and anyone else) to study/reverse engineer.
The one good thing about this is that what the Taliban got was second-tier stuff fit for the Afghans. Their air force is Cessnas and Super Toucans, not F-35s.