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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 points 6 months ago

Much as russia just spent their material legacy capacity in ukraine, the us spent their economic legacy capacity in Iraq/Afghanistan. We are driving around a fancy army we spent too much on, and the payments are hurting.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

We still spend too much on it. We're following Germany's fallacy from World War 2 of trying to have all of our equipment be the bestest ever instead of good enough. Accounting for inflation last time I looked we're spending twice what we were when we invaded Iraq.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

There's no "from WWII" about that we're still gold-plating equipment.

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