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coloradotravis.bsky.social • 2 days ago

This is a crippling level of stupidity.

WAPO: “.. plans for cutting 8 percent from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post and officials familiar with the matter ..”

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coloradotravis.bsky.social•2 days ago

These motherfuckers are doing this to give themselves a tax cut.

They’re pulling the copper wiring out of the walls of our home to pawn it and buy meth while we sit and numbly watch them.

thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com•2 days ago

Well whuddyagonnado, they're family at the end of the day, right?

agraham999.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is why I moved some of my copper wiring overseas.

canarydied.bsky.social•2 days ago

These guys got me rooting for the military industrial complex and it makes me feel dirty

chrononaut.bsky.social•2 days ago

Asset stripping, right on cue.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrononaut.bsky.social/post/3lhgorf7dws2z

ivanj.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great analogy. 👏

tombhe.bsky.social•2 days ago

8% per year for five years? That's what, a one third reduction in total?

oceansfourlife.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s an order from the East.

1logic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Im sure this will go horribly, but I've always felt that DoD was a sacred cow for too many people and there has to be fat to trim there.

rational1971.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is probably the only change I can support. Assuming they can pull it off. But I doubt it because the red states get so much defense pork.

coloradotravis.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s been dropping as a share of GDP for a while now.

I’m not personally prepared for the horrors of a world where America doesn’t guarantee the safety of global maritime trade. You’re talking billions of deaths.

rational1971.bsky.social•2 days ago

The US invests in massive hardware projects. But as we are learning with the war in Ukraine, massive is a liability. The US can build a lethal, capable force with less capital. No need for all the pork.

technicallyowen.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Navy needs a complete overhaul if they want to maintain that capability https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/17/us-navy-ships-shipbuilding-fleet-china-naval-race-pacific/

coloradotravis.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yep

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