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re: America is run by Lawyers
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:35 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:35 am to SlowFlowPro
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But usually we use them as well to secure the areas where our ground troops will go into after they clear it out.
In total war when you're invading enemy territory, sure. You can flatten it then send in the troops.
If you're liberating France (or Fallujah) you can't drop a nuke with air power even if you have the nuke. You target strikes as much as possible then you send in ground forces for even more precision, because the idea isn't always to bomb a place back into the stone age. That's the exception, not the rule. If you can't project that "occupy ground" part of the game, you're screwed before you start.
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Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:37 am to John Barron
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America is run by Lawyers
Duh. They have turned into our de-facto ruling class, which we are not supposed to have. Right after we deal with the progs and the rinos, we should deal with them.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:38 am to RollTide4Ever
LA will get John Alerio in the Senate. No thanks.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:40 am to Hogbit
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They have turned into our de-facto ruling class
A very small subset of them have.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:40 am to Bunk Moreland
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Martyanov lays out Washington’s utter incompetence and shocking military amateurism. But then, he claims, the US doesn’t do strategy; it does business plans. Through 2022-2023, Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) exposed US and NATO forces as legacy armies stuck in the 1990s, still viewing the world from that vantage point. The massive destruction of the West’s high-cost weaponry ensued, annulling their vaunted superiority. Western armaments, from anti-tank Javelins to APC Bradleys to air defense complexes such as the Patriot PAC3 or NASAMS, performed dismally and proved unready for what has become the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII. By 2023 the Kiev regime could no longer exist without the West’s support, both financial and in war materiel. By 2024 Russia will have not just exhausted Ukraine, but also demilitarized NATO as a whole, exposing the industrial and military impotence of the US and its European vassals.
The Ukraine war has done no such thing.
The very fact that a country with 3X the population and 10X the economy against its foe has been bogged down for two and a half years now is in part a testament to punching ability of the mishmash of generation-old Western weaponry Ukraine has been operating with.
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The finance and tech-based economy is not a real economy; expeditionary warfare and doctrine is not real war. The global balance of power has shifted to Eurasia. Western Europe has become a collection of weak and fast deindustrializing economies which will increasingly become irrelevant against the background of the explosive economic, technologic, scientific and military development in Eurasia.
The United States' industrial and manufacturing output by any measure dwarfs any and every economy in the world absent China's, which still largely relies on low margin, low value manufacturing (though, to be fair, is making significant strides in certain advanced sectors like electric vehicles and green energy). The combined industrial and manufacturing output of the EU is almost 1.5X that of China's and is THREE times that of Russia's entire economy.
Have you ever worked with companies in Germany, Poland, northern Italy, France, etc.?
So, in other words, there's a reason why people like Martyanov are ignored by people with any sense.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:46 am to Flats
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If you're liberating France (or Fallujah) you can't drop a nuke with air power even if you have the nuke.
We're not dropping a nuke, though.
This is about attacking their positions, supply lines, etc to make their ground support weaker and more open to attack.
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because the idea isn't always to bomb a place back into the stone age.
I know. That's not what I said.
Russia's strategy is almost completely ground-based. They're entirely exposed from the air, because Ukraine is not a real threat and can't control the air space. We could, which would completely neuter Russia's strategy and how they built their military.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:49 am to AbuTheMonkey
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The United States' industrial and manufacturing output by any measure dwarfs any and every economy in the world absent China'
This MAGA projection that we don't manufacture or build tactile things anymore is one of the biggest signals of the Idiocracy taking over.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:53 am to SlowFlowPro
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and more open to attack.
More open to attack by what?
Ground forces. If you can't project that in addition to air power (which is 99% of what the Navy does when talking global strategy), you don't have a dominant military.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:56 am to SlowFlowPro
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This MAGA projection that we don't manufacture or build tactile things anymore is one of the biggest signals of the Idiocracy taking over.
Its truly one of the dumbest things in modern politics.
Low level imfg s not returning without massive and continued subsidies We are now a high tech economy. Producing rubber dog shite will require more immigrants, not less.
Its literally progressivism.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:58 am to RollTide4Ever
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At some point, return to senators being elected by state legislatures.
That would probably work well for the other 49 states.
Louisiana probably needs that Argentina guy to be adopted as governor.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 8:59 am to Flats
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If you can't project that in addition to air power (which is 99% of what the Navy does when talking global strategy), you don't have a dominant military.
Sure, but the ground force aspect is only superior due to the air power we project. Ground fighting is limited by geography and physics. There is only so much you can do on the ground, and many of the basic tactics are 10k years old.
What makes our military elite is our air and sea power.
In Ukraine, we have used basically 0 of either. You can't judge us in Ukraine because of this.
We would frick Russia's world up if we were actually fighting because we would control the airspace entirely.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:00 am to John Barron
The plurality of lawmakers have a background in the law?
:You don’t say:
:You don’t say:
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:00 am to Clockwatcher68
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Louisiana probably needs that Argentina guy to be adopted as governor.
He would be tarred and feathered in Louisiana. Louisiana loves spending and government jobs.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:03 am to SlowFlowPro
I get what you guys are saying, but I just have this feeling in my gut you can't thrive long term on a kind of hallucinated economy that requires infinite growth. It's great that Chinese people work slave labor so I can buy $5 toasters and work in a cubicle. I guess I'm still brainwashed by a lot of the peak oil James Kunstler/Clusterfrick Nation line of thinking -- at the end of the day, the world is about food, energy, and steel - and Russia has a lot of that.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:04 am to John Barron
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This is the reason China is kicking our arse.
Lol. Idiot.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:04 am to Flats
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A very small subset of them have.
Way too many in politics, and in society. They are a drain.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:07 am to SlowFlowPro
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What makes our military elite is our air and sea power.
I can explain it to you, I can't make you understand it.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 9:26 am to SlowFlowPro
Speaking of low psychopathy, you’re a perfect example. Complete sociopath and totally delusional.
Posted on 11/21/24 at 10:03 am to Bunk Moreland
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at the end of the day, the world is about food, energy, and steel - and Russia has a lot of that.
And we have a frickload more. Much, much, much more compared to Russia. And airplanes, trains, industrial machinery, advanced manufacturing, and all the rest of the heavy industry that people like Martyanov focus on.
This goes back to the problems people have understanding large numbers.
We are by far the world's largest O&G producer (2X the nearest competitor). Our agricultural sector is nearly as large as Russia's entire economy. Our industrial manufacturing sector is larger than Russia's entire economy. And so on and so on.
And to ignore services (like tech, finance, professional services, etc.) is to ignore that we also have the means to create a lot more value and do it more efficiently in those heavy industry sectors than places that don't. If a company integrates AI into its steel manufacturing or procurement processes to grow the company, sell more product, and improve its production efficiency, how does that not count? If a company utilizes an investment bank to raise capital to expand production, does that not count?
Ignoring services is a low IQ understanding of how an economy operates and how countries produce goods.
Edit: And to be perfectly, clear I fully agree that we have too many lawyers involved at all levels of government.
This post was edited on 11/21/24 at 10:04 am
Posted on 11/21/24 at 10:04 am to John Barron
Thanks captain obvious.
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