re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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He is well aware of how the money for "Ukraine" is almost all going to revive US defense manufacturing plants gutted over the last 35 years by Democrat administrations.

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Are you counting 35 non-consecutive years of Democratic administrations, here? With a carve-out for the Bush/Cheney terms?

Does past defense manufacturing all even still make sense?

Sure, Ukraine needs Howitzer rounds... when will the US ever need them if we don't send troops off somewhere to trench warfare again?

There's even a bit of a joke I remember, I think from the (great) book version of "World War Z": "The US military is always fully prepared and equipped... to fight the last war they were involved in!"

We tend to make big, expensive, sophisticated, costly-and-difficult-to-maintain weapons... and who will we be fighting in that fashion from here on out? We just fought protracted wars with enemies that had no Navy, Air Force, or defense budget... that did things like trigger explosives remotely with cell phones, or turn our own jetliners into bombs.

Of course, after that, there's going to be a re-think. Especially with the majority of the public dead set against direct troop involvement in anything at this point.

You guys posted some much-hyped American drone thing or something here that turned out to be a big disappointment and worthless in Ukraine... while Iranian Shahed "flying moped" drones and Ukrainians using cheap hobbyist drones with warheads attached to them, and naval drones made out of jetskis have done immeasurable damage.


I think our defense sector needs to swing into high gear, but they need to think outside of their usual box.