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SMH's avatar

Victoria Nuland is one despicable individual!

I’d like to see her and her boss dropped into the middle of the Ukrainian front and have their noses rubbed in the horror that they so cavalierly dismiss as being great for the US arms industry and its workers.

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The U.S. Serbian bombing and gulf wars shocked the rest of the world. Where the U.S. took on large militaries and with token casualties defeated them. Iran, Russia, and China have been hard at work to avoid being another Iraqi military. The U.S. meanwhile was focused on whack a mole in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last 20 years. Plus have U.S. outposts around the world.

Unfortunately the U.S. military has not changed much from the pinnacle moment technology wise. Lots of defense industry consolidation (bill clinton) plus a focus on financial engineering (see Boeing) made it worse. Combined with de industrialization and moving production overseas both in Europe and the U.S.

I don’t see the draft coming back, but recruitment of non citizens is a huge possibility. Shades of the late Roman Empire…

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