Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How Old Is America’s Military Equipment?" video.

  1. I liken America's overdramatized politics to walking: it's in constant reaction to inherent unsteadiness that you actually take a step forward. Some steps might be bigger than advisable, some are real tepid, some might go sideways, but as long as one side isn't allowed to overly dominate the movement, the entire body is not that likely to faceplant.
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  2. That only came about because there were two major adversaries to worry about after WWII: the USSR and the PRC. Before then the US was quite isolationist, wanting at most to deter and diminish European control in the Western Hemisphere.
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  3. You can thank Putin for that, along with Xi.
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  4. The PLA has fairly new equipment, although they're also "Designed in China" and it's not like they have a great track record against adversaries who actually shoot back in the past like 50 years.
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  5. So lobbying by Northrup-Grumman and Raytheon are the cause of Russia further invading Ukraine?
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  6. ​ @michaelmayhem350  The PLA is trapped in its own country though, they'd only be overwhelming if we literally tried to invade China. For the air and sea battles we're all expecting though, there is no place for crafty ambushes and suicidal berzerking; the side with the superior technology and the combat experience to employ, supply, and repair it more effectively will determine the victor.
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  7. It's also what's counted in "defense" spending. The US includes Veteran's Affairs expenses, while China isn't publishing how much it spends on militarized "internal security" even though it's likely at least as much as what's going to the PLA.
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  8. Remember last time a bunch of traditionalist reactionaries tried to fight for their state and way of life? They lost ownership of all their slaves. A century later they lost legally sanctioned dominance over their descendants too. America's "Great Experiment" doesn't reward going back to a flawed past.
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  9. Combat eats through stockpiles surprisingly quick. Really the only weapons we have plenty of are a couple hundred-thousand dumb gravity bombs left over from carpet bombing Vietnam, and only because we're not producing bolt-on JDAM guided fin kits fast enough.
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