Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
    395·
    1 year ago

    Well how else do you justify maintaining defense spending at 5x the next biggest military? You need a boogeyman to keep the nation spending like WW2 never ended.

    Now I’m hearing there isn’t enough money for Medicare or social security…

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      I was just thinking that as I was reading this post. Yeah, so they’re not “right behind the US” in overall ability and preparedness, and NOW they’re drained financially and their populations morale is at a low point with the drafts and the prisoner-units, who else do we have all these guns for then? Who will be the next boogeyman, and have we already laid the groundwork to say it’s China?

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Y’all seem to be forgetting the “axis of evil” — the justification conservatives used to double military industrial complex spending, the last time they faced cost cutting…

        Only a fool would disregard the formidable economic powerhouses of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea!

        TL;DR they have successfully manufactured boogeymen as needed. Realistic adversaries are unnecessary.