Is Trump embracing aggressive withdrawal?

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(04-03-2017, 11:11 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(04-02-2017, 02:46 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(04-02-2017, 01:09 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(04-01-2017, 07:52 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: Like the title sez, the US spends way too much on the MIC.



Looking at this pic, I advocate cutting the MIC spending by 2/3's.   That's about 400 million that can be put to way better use.

On the other hand, looking at total military personnel including reserves and paramilitary, the US has only the seventh largest military in the world.

The truth is somewhere in between.

We have a capital-intense military. We prefer cannons to cannon-fodder, so to speak. We far prefer inflicting casualties to taking them. That's what one expects in First World countries, the worst countries to face in major wars. Think of Finland in the Second World War -- the Finns achieved a 30-1 kill-to-loss ratio against the Soviet Union, a country still preferring cannon fodder to capital.

Poorer countries can simply give a rifle to infantry and tell the infantry to keep firing until commanded to cease firing once the war starts. Very often the infantrymen end up being killed before they get any order to cease firing. Such is the reality of All Quiet on the Western Front, a reality that none of the participants of the "Great" War of a century ago want to endure again.

Plus, the Chinese and Russians pay less for their gear. They don't have true private sector contractors like we do in the West.

Have y'all considered that we should ditch private sector contractors then?  Fuck 'em and may they also burn in hell!    Hell, if the Chinese/Russian governments can get cheap gear with public sector production, let's copy them and nationalize our defense contractors!  By the way, private sector employees have no loyalty to the US government.  I even bet some are H1-B's on top of that.  What a fucking stupid way to run a railroad.  In short, I don't buy those arguments since there's a ready fix. The US is just so fucking stupid with this "private sector" fetish.
And so may the Republican Party burn in hell for always and always stating the private sector has all of the answers. 






Ah, yes, change the radio dial on youtube, as for the American Empire, its high time, we all, turn on to weed, tune in to some Lucifer's Friend, and opt out of the MIC by advising our Millie kin to never,ever join the MIC. Ah yeah, I shall love to dance on the MIC's grave.