I like how the whole "we have to do more with less" bullshit is hitting the military as well. Neoliberalism is so self-cannabilzing
Edit: seems everyone in the reddit thread thinks it's to weaken the army because Trump is in Putin/Xi's pocket 
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every single news headline has "trump is doing this bc he's a russian agent!!!" responses on r*ddit
yesterday while reading about the tariffs, it was because he didnt put tariffs on russia (you know, since it's under sanctions). before that, it was not aiding ukraine so russia could take it easily. i'm sure there will be even more reasons tomorrow!
When you're already determined you know the cause, everything else just seems to be a reason
Robert Mueller will prove that he's a Russian asset! 
I can't remember who described social democrats as liberals in a hurry, but the US is double-fascist with the Republicans being fascist in a hurry.
I bet they try going hard into autonomous drones and weapons instead, since we cleared that ethical hurdle in record time
I think you can thank the Genocidal Entity for that one
So, more weapons, less soldiers?
It is a strategy neoliberal brained nations do. Because pensions are a "burden", fiscal prudence etc.
DroneGPT is going to disrupt the "bombing wedding parties in the Global South" space, just you wait and see!
Edit: remember this the next time you half-ass clicking on a Captcha that says to select all squares containing Doctors Without Borders personnel 
Jesus the Russia paranoia is so fucking annoying, there must be some huge percentage of the population who genuinely believes he's directly taking orders from Putin.
Yup. Just scrape the barrel immediately when war breaks out instead of wasting money on ""professional"" soldiers in the interim!!!
All they do is drop bombs anyways. Why do they even have an army?
Mostly to occupy their "allies" countries to ensure their compliance, like Germany or Japan.
Lol, they can get fucked
Yes, but some of them are aware of what's actually happening at least:
it's over
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Going to be a bunch of nerds with 5 monitors, each showing a different drone they are piloting at the same time.
Holy fucking shit please god please
One more step in forming Gestapo loyal to him
That's what, like 1%?
450,000
I edited my title.
that's a 20% decrease, that's massive
oh my god he's coup proofing rhe military lets gooooo
by.. sending them into slaughter?
Hehehe... so they'll be advocating for early retirement of the oldest, pressuring the "broke Dicks" to accept medical discharges, but I wonder if it will mean lower recruiting quotas?
Regardless I'm thinking it will mean a more "green" force that's going to be really heavy on the intelligence analysis and drone operator side.