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The US Military Is In A Death Spiral
https://indi.ca/ ^ | October 28th, 2024 | indi.ca

Posted on 11/13/2024 3:09:13 AM PST by Jonty30

The US army is the worst army in the world. They're the only army that aspires to worldwide dominance, and they suck at it. It's the only Empire based on losing every war and looting its own treasury. Losing the last war is always covered up by the starting the next war, but if you look at it historically, America has been losing it for decades now. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Palestine, these are all losses or draws. Today, America can no longer field its own army, its Navy cannot secure shipping lines, its proxies cannot stand on their own, and its military assets are aging liabilities. The military-industrial beast that Eisenhower birthed now slouches towards Bethlehem to die. Things fall apart, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, et cetera.

America still has the highest military spending in the world, but this is like a boxer showing up at weigh-in riddled with tumors. That's cancer bro, not muscle. The US military budget is a measure of corruption, not competence. Pound for pound, the American military is weaker than it's ever been. It spends more to suck even harder. As war criminal Dan Grazier said in Responsible Statecraft, the Death Star is in a Death Spiral,

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Military/Veterans; Society
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To: Jonty30

The article seemingly blames the US Army for losses in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

THAT IS A BOATLOAD OF PURE MANURE!!!!!!!!!!

Those were all political losses. All of them.

And the degradation of the US military today is not the common soldiers fault. It’s the damn politicians. Afghanistan was nothing but a military/industrial complex war that kept politicians rich for 20 years which was immediately followed by Ukraine.


21 posted on 11/13/2024 4:56:36 AM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

But that’s exactly what I was referring to in the last sentence.

The photos of the Chinese nationals apprehended at Jacumba last year - and undoubtedly still going on - showed fit, trim and disciplined military men: they stood at parade rest with their rucks in front of them.

Those aren’t field hands looking for stoop labor.

So the infiltrators are here.


22 posted on 11/13/2024 4:58:41 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ClearCase_guy
But the idea that we ought to live in fear of the world is a little silly. No one is going to touch us, with or without our military.

Sadly, you are quite wrong.....

Fear is one thing....respect is another.


23 posted on 11/13/2024 5:03:44 AM PST by icclearly
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To: Jonty30

President Xi, you write English very well.

America’s military is the most lethal. Ask the “winners”.

It has big problems to fix, never underestimate the American man’s guy pleasure at destroying things that tick him off.


24 posted on 11/13/2024 5:04:00 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
That photo (Post 13) epitomizes the fraud we're in.

The U.S. military has their own doctors, many of whom are civilian doctors. They knew the COVID-1984 protocols were all fiction but they kept their mouths shut.

25 posted on 11/13/2024 5:05:12 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: maddog55
Peace through superior fire power.

”Superior brains. Superior firepower. That’s all she wrote.”

26 posted on 11/13/2024 5:10:12 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
Most of the competent colonels and lieutenant colonels have moved on and gone away. Who will Trump replace the DIE general officers with?

My son is not a field grade officer yet. (Air Force) He says there are still patriots, or at least in the Air Force, that will be ready to step up to the plate. He participated in an air exercise recently, including USAF, USA, USMC, and USN, along with Air Forces from Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. He met good people everywhere. I am convinced Trump can turn this around. Let’s hope for the best. 👍

27 posted on 11/13/2024 5:13:15 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Darksheare

The Korean war wasn’t lost,it’s presently in a cease fire.🤔


28 posted on 11/13/2024 5:22:50 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: All

In 2023 of the Biden/Harris admin, the Pentagon’s military personnel budget was $184 billion, which is the second largest category of spending for the Department of Defense (DoD)......covers pay and retirement benefits for service members.

The Pentagon’s proposed 2025 budget includes an $8.9 billion increase to $181.9 billion for military personnel, despite an expected decrease in active end force.

The budget also includes a 4.5% pay raise for service members and a 2% pay raise for civilian employees.

Last year in the Biden/Harris admin, the Pentagon couldn’t properly account for a whopping 61% of its total $3.5 trillion in assets. That figure increased this year, with the department insufficiently documenting 63% of its now $3.8 trillion in assets.

Military contractors possess many of these assets, but to an extent unbeknownst to the Pentagon ........ and to Biden/Harris.


29 posted on 11/13/2024 5:26:14 AM PST by Liz ( )
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To: Yo-Yo

What quals does he need? Does he need to be a retired 68 yr old socially promoted 4 star brought back from some defense contractor VP job? Maybe some younger blood is what’s needed. We shall possibly see.


30 posted on 11/13/2024 5:27:14 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Jonty30

This guy’s a Morron! Wrong on most levels. If given the political authority to execute, our military is unstoppable. With clear objectives and an exit strategy, and left to our own planning, we cannot lose. We only lose when politicians interfear and change the rules/guidance mid stream.

Give us guidance, get out of the way.


31 posted on 11/13/2024 5:28:16 AM PST by EdgeOfDarkness (EdgeOfDarkness)
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To: Jonty30
A country that let globalist free traitors off shore our industrial base ( Thanks Rush Limbaugh for cheerleading that effort on a daily basis) is never going to be a world power or really be able to sustain a war of attrition.

Thanks Free Traitors.....

32 posted on 11/13/2024 5:35:14 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Get rid of the standing army. Standing armies are not the friend of liberty.


33 posted on 11/13/2024 5:36:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Yo-Yo
And Fox and Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth is the one to fix it?

He wont take any sh!t. I love it.

34 posted on 11/13/2024 5:37:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

A combined CCP/RU invasion route thru Alaska is the most likely threat axis to North America. Even that is highly unlikely.


35 posted on 11/13/2024 5:39:11 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jonty30

There is no point in making war unless you intend to conduct yourselves WWII style - nothing left out of what you are willing to do, and nothing but total surrender of the opposition in your goals; no half measures, no quarter measures, just total war and total war taken to wherever your opposition is and whereever your opposition is getting support.

When we have failed we failed not because we were incapable of winning, and only because we restrained ourselves from winning.


36 posted on 11/13/2024 5:42:01 AM PST by Wuli
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To: central_va

That would be a very long supply line down through Canada and into the US.


37 posted on 11/13/2024 5:42:27 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: central_va
A combined CCP/RU invasion route thru Alaska is the most likely threat axis to North America. Even that is highly unlikely.

The threat route is through Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington DC / Northern Virginia, and the border with Mexico. Communist China bought and paid for politicians such as Jao Bai-din, as well as korporate boards.

Why send even one soldier when the Uniparty will import illegal alien invaders on the taxpayers' dimes?

38 posted on 11/13/2024 5:49:43 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: EdgeOfDarkness
interfear

Good word!

39 posted on 11/13/2024 5:52:14 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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To: central_va

George Washington agrees...

In his 1783 “Sentiments on a Peace Establishment,” Washington acknowledged that a large standing army in peacetime can be dangerous to a country’s liberties. However, he also believed that a small, well-organized force under certain circumstances could be necessary and safe.


40 posted on 11/13/2024 5:53:20 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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