Post #4254521
2026-07-30 21:13 UTC
It was darkly funny when Kamala Harris called the US "the deadliest military on Earth" instead of the most powerful or the most effective. And even if we're not the deadliest, we're definitely up there! Actually winning wars, though? We really suck at that part. Unfortunately, that has never stopped us.
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@gwynnion@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 21:19
The US military is a giant corporate boondoggle and hit men for the fossil fuel industry, but it's politically important that America's self-perception as the world's unstoppable hyper-power never be deflated by actual events. Biden's cardinal sin for some people was withdrawing from Afghanistan -- even though Trump negotiated and agreed to it -- because it forced people to reckon with the fact that decades of war had accomplished absolutely nothing except a price tag and a body count.