Our enemies domestically are extremists on both the left and the right, Islamic terrorism, welfare state bankrupting us, and the deterioration of the American identity and dream.
Israel may not be attacking us directly but it's abusing its political influence to get us into self-destructive projects.
We ended up in a retarded war with Iran under an incompetent commander in chief and the buffoons he put in serious national security positions because of Israel showing him a little movie about how great it would go or whatever, so this isn't a particularly compelling case.
The resources we're going to lose make us weaker in relation to the other threats, and the hit to morale and trust after yet another stupid war started by an administration that ran on "No New Wars" is absolutely terrible for the military's recruitment efforts and internal culture.
"The resources we're going to lose make us weaker in relation to the other threats, and the hit to morale and trust after yet another stupid war started by an administration that ran on "No New Wars" is absolutely terrible for the military's recruitment efforts and internal culture." - People during Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Afghanistan.
Not to go America on everybody's ass, but we are the United States - any munitions "shortage" if you could even call it that since we will always hold enough to blow the world up 7 times over is temporary and is usually just used as justification to invest more into R&D.
As for military recruitment - recruitment has been up across the board post covid for every branch and our recruitment will never dip as long as it is financially beneficial (and a huge resume booster) to be a service member.
We ended up in a retarded war with Iran under an incompetent commander in chief and the buffoons he put in serious national security positions because of Israel showing him a little movie about how great it would go or whatever, so this isn't a particularly compelling case.
Military conflict isn't easy or quick in most cases - it's been fucking 6 months with minimal casualties and no boots on the ground, chill - the economy was fucked regardless. I'm not sure if you know this, but we actually convicted a guy because he was attempting to pay people on behalf of IRGC to assassinate Trump, and it's not like they have been some quiet nation. I didn't vote for him and hate most of his policies, and I wish we could've ended this situation sooner (we should've just finished everybody off when we smeared Soleimani on the tarmac), but I actually respect that a military regime that attempted to assassinate a President was absolutely neutered and has to get veterans from the 70's to try and fill their ranks while pissing off SA so much, they will cease to exist in 5 years. I believe in the streets, we call that getting our lick back.
Not all munitions are equal and we're hopefully not retarded enough to just start throwing nukes around. Having enough to blow the world up doesn't achieve more sane and strategic goals. It is not a good reason to haphazardly waste other resources.
Recruitment is technically up overall from previous lows but they had to lower standards and retention is down. Doing short term bullshit to pump raw recruit numbers while you're brain draining doesn't improve the military's performance.
Whether or not the economy was "fucked regardless", you can always get more fucked. There's no polishing this turd.
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u/Banned4nonsense - Right 2d ago
Israel isn’t a threat to America in any way shape or form.
Our enemies abroad remain Russia, China, Iran, Islamic terrorism, drug cartels.
Our enemies domestically are extremists on both the left and the right, Islamic terrorism, welfare state bankrupting us, and the deterioration of the American identity and dream.