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2021-12-22 -Great Cultural Revolution

Mission Unaccomplished: Describing Failing US Military as 'Awesome'

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-22 06:17|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 ...Sometime in the next year or so, I fear we are going to have our asses handed to us in combat and the response of the men like SecDef will be to shrug and point fingers.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-12-22 06:53|| 2021-12-22 06:53|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ It's been a while since we fought a battle without complete air supremacy. I'm not so sure about the next one.

Posted by Matt 2021-12-22 09:33|| 2021-12-22 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 It's been a while since we fought a battle without complete air supremacy.

And satellite comms. And GPS. And a military with the will to win. I fear we are in for a shock.

Posted by SteveS 2021-12-22 10:07|| 2021-12-22 10:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Equipment and manpower issues aside -- and they are substantial -- another question is who our Churchill would be in a war of any magnitude and duration. Maybe one of our younger combat veterans would step up, but on the national stage the only instinctive fighter I see is DJT. The current administration has appeasement bred into its bones.

Posted by Matt 2021-12-22 11:09|| 2021-12-22 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 We haven't had leaders with the will to win wars for over 30 years now.

Since the Cold War's end their ethos has been defined by warm-fuzzy BS goals like "nation-building", "responsibility to protect," "girls' education," and sundry other cookie-pusher, 3 cups of tea nonsense

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-22 11:17|| 2021-12-22 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 another question is who our Churchill would be in a war of any magnitude and duration.

Have you seen Darkest Hour - the re-imagining of Winston Churchill as a drunken slur cribbing real thinkers while the women around him attempt to keep him upright, and a re-visit to the qualities of Nevile Chamberlain?

Its what the people who cheer and support Lloyd Austin think, and are trying to get the kids to believe. What we would get an angry tranny who will command the palace eunuchs and take the loss of face out on US Citizens, while finding and securing their niche in a bio-medical tyranny, occasionally deploying to protect favored overseas money assets.

Bet the thing is everyone including Austin himself knows he is a placeholder, and that is why he is so willing to be a mouth, put on a ridiculous display face protection, a giant sprocket, and march his 300 pounds ass in front of the smallest white Marines on the roster.

Then there's that fucking wrecking ball Milly Cyrus, who is well know to be able to wax Alexander's choice of foods over properly set dishware but was caught off guard when leaving Afghanistan totally ass backwards, but made sure we got a photo of the last general on scene leaving nobody behind...well, no Afghans at least, just a bunch of allies and citizens and equipment and pallets of cash and one last drone strike and what was left of our reputation.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-22 13:26|| 2021-12-22 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't think we'll lose a war so much as decline to fight when needed.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-12-22 17:39|| 2021-12-22 17:39|| Front Page Top

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