[Repealthe17thAmendment]

I'm not sure the US has the willingness to fight any sort of war beyond drones and smart bombs. We do have plenty of those, though.

On the one hand, it should take quite a bit to get us into a war, and we have certainly gone into far too many of them without a clearly defined purpose, or mission. On the other hand, we are the last of defense of a Western world that has grown soft, and obsessed with ridiculous things like gender identity and critical race theory. Our economy survives because of our position as the dominant economic engine in the world, but once an up and comer, like China, determines they can supplant us, it will be just a matter of time before they make their move.

[qaz123]

You’re right on everything. If I think you forgot one thing.

President Trump didn’t take sh*t from anyone. From the trade deals and tariffs, how he handled ISIS, Syria and the Middle East, building up our military. Up to and including his being adamant that, not only is the US not getting involved in other countries tries BS, he wanted to bring everyone home. And not just from Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think the world was on notice that if they did pick a fight with America, it wasn’t going to be the Clinton-Bush doctrine of an equal response.

Zero to the Wrath of God in a way that only the US military can do. To this day, ONLY the US military, regardless of how much China has built up their conscript military.

So, at the end of the day it all comes down to our CINC(Harris) and whether or not she and the rest of the Dems want to go to war with their benefactor, China.

[daniel1212]

. 71% of young people are ineligible for the military. The Army dropped grenade throwing as a requirement to graduate because new recruits could not throw far enough. “We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don’t have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 [82 feet] to 30 meters." Also, there is the Intellectual Decline of the Army Officer Corps. The size of the U.S. military in 2017 was half of what it was in 1990, and in general I think many signed up for the benefits rather than patriotism. 16% were women and racial and ethnic minorities made up 43%, and a poll from the Military Times and Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families conducted in July 2020, 49.9 percent of 1,018 active-duty military respondents had an unfavorable view of the president, compared to about 38 percent who had a favorable view. That poll showed Biden with a 4-percentage-point lead over Trump