Military Strength Ranking - US First & It's Not Close

But the GOP says our military is weak?

We should keep it that way

There is no way we have 120,000,000 men fit for service. We have a soy problem on our hands.

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There is no way we have 120,000,000 men fit for service. We have a soy problem on our

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only 16 million served in ww2.

2 million of them in Europe.

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argue we'd be hard press to find 2 million of "draft age" that are fit for service. Obesity is a real threat to our nation.

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if obesity is a security threat republicans will suddenly join democrats in caring about school lunches.

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But every elected official that gets money from defense contractors says our military is weak and needs more funding?


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Boogie, military funding depends on how we anticipate using the military. For over half a century the U.S. has used its military nearly continuously as an IOP to shape the international system. Since the USSR collapsed, we were a global hegemon that could freely move unopposed.

This is still the basic requirement of the NSS, but we now have at least one adversary that can maintain standoff and can challenge us in their region. It isn’t going to get cheaper to regain our previous advantage.

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suddenly join democrats in caring about school lunches

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Otto...the 260 school meals per year aren't making kids obese...

It's a combination of sugar intake, and lack of activity

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But every elected official that gets money from defense contractors says our military is weak and needs more funding?

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The constant stream of Pentagon officials retiring only to be immediately hired by the same defense contractors those officials patronized continues well into Trump’s presidency. This is the Swamp. In the meantime, after a Trump planned two percent budget cut (originally was supposed to be five percent) in military spending, congressional Republicans and Jim Mattis (the Swamp) convinced Trump to increase military spending by five percent. So yes, much of this can be directly laid at the feet of the Republican Party. The OP says ‘Merica is already the biggest badass on the block and it’s not even close. In the meantime the Swamp says we’ll face utter catastrophe if we don’t throw more billions into the defense budget. Where’s the truth? Those of us on the right need to continue to pressure the Swamp regardless of which side of the aisle we notice it bubbling up.

Our record as #1 is abysmal. We should go back to being the underdog.