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[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

There's rumors that the massive levels of corruption in our military has resulted in lower stockpiles and overall combat readiness than claimed, and that a prolonged conflict will eventually reveal that.

Fucking hell I do not want the world to find out, though. Cause all that insane bastard would have left would be nukes. And the common folk like myself are all living paycheck to paycheck, absolutely no safety net, pretending we're all doing well but actually afraid of any disruption - because that would land a man in the streets and homeless.

So, pray he breaks our collective backs and we finally rise up first; but the propaganda here is beyond belief, so that's gonna take a lot to say the least. 🤕

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Rumours? The US is already reneging on deliveries because it's stockpiles are depleted. Launching billions upon billions of dollars of hightech missiles at Iran punched a huge hole in the US stockpiles, to relatively little effect.

The Iran war had the same problem as Vietnam. You can't use a million dollar weapon to take out a ten thousand dollar weapon and expect long-term success. So the Trump government did what they do best, and tried to solve the problem by making the same mistake more rapidly and at greater scale.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Fair. Mango Mussolini is clearly desperate in his attempts to bully others into doing his dirty work for him.