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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61389483

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[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 77 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Rule 1. When you're having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.

[–] luce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

who says the enemy has to be foreign?

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 months ago

The enemy is both weak and strong.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago

anyway, 30 billion more for Israel

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

Lol sounds like he's doing a great job in his role checks notes in charge of US defense.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is both believable, and actually makes me feel safer about world security

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Apparently the crucial moment for the US to attack was a few year ago, when they still had naval superiority. They missed their window luckily for us. Thanks to the PRC the US doesn't get to use SE Asia and Europe as their cannon fodder.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only thing this pentagon chief can sink in 20 minutes is a fifth of whiskey

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That’s too modest of an amount

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

US can't even beat Ansarallah

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

I remember how they bragged that the operation against Yemen was the biggest naval operation since WW2.

And they lost that, against country having no navy and no airforce.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lots of comments that "this is a false distraction to justify war on Panama". War on Panama is about interdicting Chinese commerce with Brazil and other countries south of US. Including FDI in Panama to boost its cross ocean trade volume through a railway.

This is more of a classified leak exposing US weakness and impotence. This does compromise stupid people's faith in US protections across the world, and their rulers corrupt submission to US under propaganda of US protection.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Someone got fired for unauthorized leak today. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-850238

[–] ef9357@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

It’s not like China has to lift a finger, the US government is doing a fine job of destroying the country.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 13 points 2 months ago

I hope that's true, but this is a common refrain with various adversaries used as the boogie-man.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-117-the-always-lagging-us-war-machine

The scam goes something like this: A weapons contractor and military-funded think tank publishes a supposedly neutral "report" or a handful "U.S. officials" run to a media outlet insisting the United States is "lagging behind" in a sector that incidentally coincides with said think tank's funders or government entity's interests. Credulous American media mindlessly repeats the claims, everyone acts panicked, treating the warning like a work of good faith, sober and objective analysis. Congress then reacts and uses media coverage to rationalize even more contracts to the very funders of the think tank that raised the warning, further bloating the Pentagon, State Department and CIA budgets. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, all the while portraying the U.S.'s gargantuan defense expenditures as paltry and insufficient.

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago
[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Article's gone. Here's the archive: https://archive.is/WDDOa

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Good thing we’re busy terrorizing our own populace!