Did you forget the Pentagon and DOD cant account for Trillions in assets every few years when they audit them.
They lost 3.5 T on covid funds just last year.
It seems to be acceptable because we keep letting it happen.
Because our military leaders pay exorbitant amounts on simple things like a $500 hammer, and Congress keeps approving it. I bet Russia pays Ace Hardware prices for their hammers.
Russia is continually portrayed as LoSiNg yet we have 12x the budget and running out of everything.
Either we're appearing weak (art of war). Our military budget is completely smoke and mirrors and mostly going elsewhere. Or Russia is due an incredible amount more credit for military efficiency and effectiveness since they're literally fighting the world on a budget 12x less than ours.
Watch RT... Russian State Television... THEY will tell you that at this point.
Debating the Russian Army's performance in this war has become tiresome on this forum... it's been the same rubbish for almost a year. Meanwhile, since April the Russians have lost huge amounts of territory, gained almost nothing and are now introducing a draft, recruiting soldiers in their 60s and emptying prisons to fight this war....
If anyone thinks Russia is crushing the Ukraine then they are willfully ignorant at this point. A mindless peon, unable to process obvious truths.
Yep. And longer. People forget. ONLY 20% of the Russian Military has seen the frontline. The other 80% are training, learning new weapons etc. The 20% of Russians have been joined by the Militias in both the Lugansk and Donesk plus Chechens and Wagner PMC. The Russians have covered them with air support.
A few decades of non-competitiveness in the defense industry. Hollowing out of American industry. Black projects and secretive bullshit. Graft and Corruption from civilian contractors. Graft and Corruption from the Officers Corps. Pentagon Brass being more concerned about landing sweetheart deals to ensure a cushy low effort retirement Job. The Russians also have a shitload of Soviet Inventory stockpiled. Including shit that while it isn’t cutting edge anymore certainly isn’t outdated.
Meanwhile we’ve sold, decommissioned, or scrapped large parts of our stockpiles. The Russians didn’t. They still have shit from WW1 stored away in Warehouses
Russia isn't paying $10 Million per tank, or $35 Million per airplane.
For some reason... they can produce comparable equipment for 1/12th the price.
Perhaps the Military Industrial Complex, Pentagon bribes and all the political payoffs tend to over-inflate our military equipment costs?
Did you forget the Pentagon and DOD cant account for Trillions in assets every few years when they audit them. They lost 3.5 T on covid funds just last year.
It seems to be acceptable because we keep letting it happen.
Lots of compiling theft baked in for too many years to count.
Yep, our military buys $10k toilet seats.
Because our military leaders pay exorbitant amounts on simple things like a $500 hammer, and Congress keeps approving it. I bet Russia pays Ace Hardware prices for their hammers.
Like NASA spending millions on a pen that works in zero gravity. Russians used a pencil.
Russia is continually portrayed as LoSiNg yet we have 12x the budget and running out of everything.
Either we're appearing weak (art of war). Our military budget is completely smoke and mirrors and mostly going elsewhere. Or Russia is due an incredible amount more credit for military efficiency and effectiveness since they're literally fighting the world on a budget 12x less than ours.
Russia is being fought to a stand still against a small nation using old soviet weapons and western hand me downs.
The Russian military is not preforming well.
🤣🤣🤣😂😂. CNN tell you that? 🤣😂
Watch RT... Russian State Television... THEY will tell you that at this point.
Debating the Russian Army's performance in this war has become tiresome on this forum... it's been the same rubbish for almost a year. Meanwhile, since April the Russians have lost huge amounts of territory, gained almost nothing and are now introducing a draft, recruiting soldiers in their 60s and emptying prisons to fight this war....
If anyone thinks Russia is crushing the Ukraine then they are willfully ignorant at this point. A mindless peon, unable to process obvious truths.
That budget is being laundered back to career corruptocrats.
The plan is to deplete the hardware supplies of Russia and America so that when china attacks there will be no weapons to fight them with.
You’re feeding your old equipment into the wood chipper, and the rest is black budgets and theft.
Russia spent 8 years preparing ?
Yep. And longer. People forget. ONLY 20% of the Russian Military has seen the frontline. The other 80% are training, learning new weapons etc. The 20% of Russians have been joined by the Militias in both the Lugansk and Donesk plus Chechens and Wagner PMC. The Russians have covered them with air support.
According to Colonel Douglas MacGregor, when he served, there was few Generals. Today it is top heavy with Generals and those Generals cost a lot.
Because you're racist!
Kek does this mean I'm one of those white supremacist racist bigot xenophobic sexist bigots then??!!
Oh wait.... Nope... Still the democrats lol
A few decades of non-competitiveness in the defense industry. Hollowing out of American industry. Black projects and secretive bullshit. Graft and Corruption from civilian contractors. Graft and Corruption from the Officers Corps. Pentagon Brass being more concerned about landing sweetheart deals to ensure a cushy low effort retirement Job. The Russians also have a shitload of Soviet Inventory stockpiled. Including shit that while it isn’t cutting edge anymore certainly isn’t outdated.
Meanwhile we’ve sold, decommissioned, or scrapped large parts of our stockpiles. The Russians didn’t. They still have shit from WW1 stored away in Warehouses
They don’t call it the Military Industrial Complex for nothing.
Bogus numbers to throw off the "enemy" maybe? Never mind...they wouldn't do that.
If we can’t or won’t audit the military spending, how do we know for sure that they are as well-equipped as everyone thinks they are?
Maybe Putin knows that game and is purposely low balling their military expenditures. Everything seems to be a psy-opp anyway, so who knows
Petrodollar system. Or rather petrodollar military industrial racketeering protection racket. Something like that.
“Use this here FRN for buying oil. it’d be a shame if your country were to be regime changed.”
Instead of backed by gold FRN is backed by threat of force