Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "The Return of the CENTRAL EMPIRE? How CHINA CHALLENGES the US military - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@MASARU Hamamoto Afghanistan was not a war for the US it was a minor battle that was won by its special forces. Are you implying leaving the country was losing a war?
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@archimedes2261 The US was like that 100 years ago are you thinking it is something new? Go and watch the movie Gangs of New York if you want to see internal messy politics and melting pot. The 40 million Mexicans who call them self Latino in America see them self as Americans. Most black people in America see them self as American very few would be interested in Africa, Europe or Asia. The US has seen all of this before.
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@UniverseExp91 The US military in equivalent dollars has spent about 20 trillion over the last 2 decades and without Afghanistan they would still have spent the 20 trillion. The 2.5 trillion figure you are talking about covers both Afghanistan and Iraq. Pulling out of a place 20 years after a minor US battle means nothing in terms of win or defeat. If the US went back tomorrow they would control Afghanistan in about 3 weeks and that would be fighting with the gloves on and one hand behind the back.
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@richardmakaya5261 For the US to wipe out the Taliban it would need to kill a lot of people and that would mean civilian lives. The US and its public are not willing to do that. Remember the US in all its wars since WW2 has been fighting with gloves on due to the fact it has been acting like world police force. If they take the gloves off it will be a different matter.
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@Anton S The US has roughly about 50% of it cold war nuclear weapons active Russia has about 5% of its nuclear weapons active. China simply does not have enough nuclear weapons for full exchange with the US if it even tried to do it the world would have a very large supply of glass from China.
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The US spends 25% of its budget on development and not just wages. All those fancy aircraft, weapons systems, communications, new materials and so on all cost money. The US has been spending about 1 trillion per year for the last 70 years (inflation corrected). And here is the thing the US still has about 50% of its cold war nuclear weapons Russia might have about 5%. It is claimed that China has 250 nuclear warheads but that is very doubtful. The US military budget is about maintaining and also development which makes it very unique in world military forces.
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@chinadollfmd The US has about 200,000 Marines which are elite shock troops that can be dropped into anywhere and function by them self. In a global war the US would produce about 1 million marines and probably 100,000 rangers.
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It is the contractors that enables US technological growth. US industry is capable of fusing with its industrial military output. China is not even close to the US when it comes to that. The 1 trillion per year that the US spends does not account for industrial development. The US within a year could produce 10 million military vehicles and several hundred thousand aircraft. ballistic
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No country can hide spending 500 billion on their military.
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What do you mean?
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@Infamous41 I do not think they did it with a GDP but did so with the threat of going to a concentration camp. Such milities have very poor moral and are not fighting for their homeland but something else.
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@Matt-fu9wx America has done it before and may do it again.
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Purchase parity only matters when it comes to general development it does not matter when it comes to cutting edge technological development. You cannot compare simple engineering with more complex engineering.
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A Ford Class carrier is a naval asset buying elections is not.
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No body cares.
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They were never private.
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The US probably has about 30 aircraft carriers, several hundred naval destroyers, probably over 100 submarines, the ability to produce far more naval ships than China and most importantly of all the US can produce over 5 billion barrels of Oil per year.
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@justtrevor6004 The reason the word probably is used is because it is really unknown as to the full extent of what is available. What is publicly stated are the vessels that are in active service and on register. What is contained in the grey fleet is really unknown. The 68 subs you are talking about are what is active and on patrol but it would not be unimaginable to think that there more ready in waiting to be active if need be. There is nobody that can tell you how many fighter Aircraft the US has or how many Marines there actually are or even if Delta Force really exists. No body even knows what the Harp project was really about I would assume some sort of atmosphere analysis. How many drones does the US have is also unknown as it is not declared. The US directly has a military spending of about $1 trillion per year but the stated figure is about $700 to 800 billion.
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