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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 hours ago

You can keep a zero loss record if you call it an accident every time.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)
[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 6 points 15 hours ago

Lmao is this real?

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Really exposing how the US military isn't the perfect war machine the US thinks it is.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter. They have the capital and populace to throw into this meat grinder until they decide it's enough. We see the same with Russia, and soon we'll see the same with China. The world is getting too expensive and too crowded so the war machines are all starting up.

And thus the cycle continues; ad nauseam

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago

The world is getting too crowded because of India and Africa. China's population has already reched its peak a few years back and is declining since. As long as India and Africa don't join any potential WW3, the global population won't decline.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

We perfected building a near peer military with Russia in mind. We build massive fleets of wildly expensive machines and great arsenals of similarly expensive ammunition. We made almost all of that shit overwhelmingly dependent on the supply chain of a flammable, nonrenewable, black fluid easily controllable by the nation we just attacked. One which has taken seriously the new lesson that such militaries are obsolete and top heavy. The way forward lies in small, cheap, autonomous suicide drones, cyber attacks, propaganda, and economic pressure. They're one of the few countries to take that lesson to heart. We have recently decapitated the competence of nearly every powerful system of our nation; political and military, and pushed our economy to the brink. We are led by hyper-overconfident, insecure, malicious idiots supported only by a cult minority of our population.

Not quite perfect is right. The rest of the world should bind together to pressure us, hard.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago

Real "me putting on a dress shirt after not working out for two years" hours

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Elect a clown, get a circus.

This is what happens when you put a fucking moron in charge of the military.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

...and above using MechaHitler Grok in their weapon system

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The moron isn't allowed to start a war, as far as the Constitution is concerned.

Trump is the end result of ignoring the Constitution for many decades, he is what you get. And he's the dumb one

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago

The constitution has always been ignored if capital deems it expedient

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Ah, but it's not a war, you see. It's just going abroad to blow stuff up.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could go either way on this. Having a bunch of armed people and vehicles running around unfamiliar territory basically guarantees you're gonna have accidents. Heck, people die during training in as controlled an environment as we can manage.

OTOH, that amount of accidents compared to only a few acknowledged combat losses is a bit suss.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Shh, there's no room for rationality here! Obviously the US military, which is the biggest funded military in the world by several degrees is collapsing because they're all big, mean, stupid, poo-poo heads and no other reason! Everyone knows the US is minutes away from collapse and absolutely doesn't have the strength to draw this conflict out for multiple decades despite the trillions of dollars spent to ensure exactly that outcome!

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago

Most of that money actually does not go to ensuring that outcome, most of that money goes to ensuring Northrop Grumman execs can get a third infinity pool and bigger sex slave dungeon. If the money went towards what you're saying it goes towards, the USS Gerald Ford would have functioning toilets.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just want to make everybody aware, that's not normal.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Planes only fo this when they're very distressed

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

They just do that sometimes

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Lying is the only thing he can do...

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Nimux2@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Straight out of Red Alert 3.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Fuck i hear the little screen activating sound

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not the worst injury suffered by Abraham Lincoln…

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah, his brain injury wasn't very mild

[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Military LARPers: "Bu bu but the stats prove US military/equipment/personnel are the best ever!!"

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mid-air collision

Yes, that’s the intended outcome of firing a rocket.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

It wasn't a rocket... Two KC135s collided. One made it back.

[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Ironically the picture in the post is of a notably non-American MiG-29. The rest seems pretty on-point, though.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

These freaking accidental accidents keep accidenting. It's so annoying

TBF all the manned planes are made by Boeing...

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