Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Russian state armament plan \u0026 Future US B-21 bomber fleet" video.

  1. Because "building the future" isn't really a coherent concept. Different nations have different visions for what they want the future to look like. Any nation attempting to build a future for itself had damn well better be well armed to defend its version of the future, or it will fall prey to those who have a vastly different vision of the future.
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  2. That's an absurd comment. Would it be better to use F-86s instead of F-22s? Or Essex class carriers instead of Ford class? Or How about Sherman tanks, and all of their numerous advantages over the Abrams? The B-52 may be iconic, but it's an airframe developed in the 1950s, and is highly unlikely to do anything better than the upcoming B-21.
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  3. Infographics is so riddled with glaring errors it's absurd.
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  4. Scipi It could just be that he does his videos in English to appeal to a much wider audience. Basically everyone speaks at least some English.
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  5. Altyazılı Dede That number is nonsense. Actually, the US spends about 24% on the military. The vast majority of the US budget is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Redistribution programs that, in an ideal world, wouldn't exist. Our military budget is actually way too low (though so much of it is misappropriated too, which doesn't help). We're wasting literally trillions on the F-35, which is a lemon and a half, while all the equipment that we actually use is ageing rapidly. We need a realistic fleet of F-22s, which we're not buying. We need more carriers than we have, and we're dragging our feet. We needed the EFV for the Marine Corps, and that got cancelled, and so now Marines will be riding into battle in obsolete vehicles. What we really need is a modern strike fighter, which we don't even have in development, because the F-35 nonsense. We need a modern naval fighter, which we don't have, because F-35. We're wasting so much of our limited military budget on nonsense like ridiculous failed attempts at integrating women into combat, and we're not getting the things we need.
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  6. Altyazılı Dede "Build a country from scratch". What does that even mean? The reality is that the US military being what it is has kept the world at (relative) peace since WWII. A weakened US military is just an excuse for the world's bad actors to create conflict. Look at the past eight years. During the Obama regime, the US military suffered deep cuts as the US withdrew from the world. Now we have complete chaos in the middle east, Russia trying to devour its neighbors, China making trouble in the Pacific, Iran on the verge of nuclear capability, and a world generally far less stable than it was in 2008. A strong US military makes for a stable world. You wanna talk about building a future, the best way to do so is to ensure that the US military is utterly dominant in every aspect of potential conflict. The Pax Americana is the best thing to ever happen to the world.
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  7. Altyazılı Dede The Islamic State (who are not and never have been called "ISIS") was created by a bunch of paynim savages from the remnants of al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
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  8. So people would be better off if some one-world totalitarian government dictated how we lived our lives? I'd suggest reading a wonderful book called 1984 by George Orwell. Your idea doesn't end well.
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  9. Altyazılı Dede Because yeah, appeal to American patriotism to discredit everything I have to say. Because that's no cliche or anything.
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  10. Darkalex987 / King of Westeros * Because we live in a dangerous world which the US military makes a lot safer. NASA doesn't do anything practical.
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  11. hedgehog3180 Aside from GPS, and satellites, none of what you mentioned is practical, and much of it could be considered a massive waste of taxpayer money. Going to Mars? Why? It's a cool idea, I'll give you that, but what practical purpose does it have? We don't gain anything tangible from going to Mars or beyond, or looking at distant planets. On the other hand, we have a military that's essentially on life support after eight years of a bad president cutting their budget and forcing idiotic "social justice" policies on them, as well as 15 years of war. Equipment gets worn out and/or becomes obsolete. Only about a third of the Marine Corps' aircraft are airworthy, and the Navy and Air Force are only slightly better off in that regard. Our F-15s, F-16s, and F/A-18s are ageing airplanes with no viable replacement. We're sinking trillions into the F-35, which from all reports doesn't do anything well, it can't fight, it can't run, and it isn't as undetectable as Lockheed Martin likes to claim. We need to restart the F-22 program, and develop reasonable 5th generation strike fighters for the Air Force and Navy. The Obama regime killed the EFV, and the Marine Corps now will have to rely on 1970s AAVs to get from ship to shore. These have next to no armor, are undergunned, and are an incredibly bumpy ride. Our Navy has fewer ships than at any point since before WWII, we're sinking way too much into useless Littoral Combat Ships that are basically the F-35 of watercraft, and meanwhile the useful ships of the fleet aren't getting any younger. We only have 10 aircraft carriers, when we should have 14. The Marine Corps and Army could use new and better rifles than they currently have, and lighter body armor as well. These are all real world issues that are especially important in the era of a newly assertive Russia looking for trouble in Eastern Europe, an emerging China attempting to establish itself as regional hegemon in Asia and the western Pacific, and a middle east in absolute chaos with Iran rapidly closing in on nuclear capability. NASA is a vanity project that occasionally yields some cool results. The military is a force for stability in the world and needs to maintain its superiority over any and all potential rivals.
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  12. No, dipshit. The world needs protection from people like Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, Ali Khameini, Bashar al-Assad, and the like. When you have tyrants like Kim rattling the nuclear saber, you should know that American military might is the ONLY thing keeping his fat finger off the button.
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  13. You actually believe that nonsense? Let's see...the Middle East was already destroyed long before the US even existed. The US did briefly bring some measure of stability to the region, but since we left Iraq in 2011, it's all gone to hell. Nice try though. Also, the Islamic State (IS or Da'ish) is only called ISIS by idiots. "Dictating to others how to live" is basically a textbook definition of North Korea and the polar opposite of the US. If you'd actually been educated instead of indoctrinated, you would know this. If the US wanted to nuke North Korea, we would have done it decades ago, back in the Clinton administration when the DPRK started their nuclear program. In reality, it's North Korea, one of the most horrific countries in history, that's fueled by utterly unfounded paranoia about the US and South Korea, mainly because focusing on foreign bogeymen helps the regime shift the focus of their own downtrodden populace away from their own horrendous living conditions. Nobody is threatening Kim Jong-un; Kim is threatening everyone else. But hey, you have to take the side of the best approximation of hell on earth, because you hate America, because reasons. And when you call people "racist", you demonstrate zero actual arguments. You do showcase your own stupidity, though. Especially when you spell "racist" wrong.
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  14. Epsilon You want to talk about ignorance? Ok. You're being deliberately ignorant here. Like claiming that the US is responsible for the current Islamic Republic in Iran. Or claiming that the US "supported" Saddam Hussein. There's a big difference between backing one side halfheartedly in a war you'd like to see both sides lose and actual "support". But hey, you have your anti-American mythology, and you won't let facts interfere with that! The US does not by any means dictate how other countries live. We attempt to stop threats like communism and islamism, because of the threats that they create to ourselves and global stability in general. But again, your anti-American mythology is immune to facts. Meanwhile, North Korea is essentially a giant concentration camp that now is brandishing nuclear weapons at the rest of the world. But hey, as long as they hate America, right? Again, "racist" is a meaningless term used exclusively by idiots. When you claim US generals are "racist", you are demonstrating your utter factual ignorance as well as your general moronic worldview. Also, what single country in the last 200 odd years has had a MORE positive effect on the world as a whole than the United States?
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  15. Oh you fool. Try reading articles before linking to them. Your first link is about the 1953 coup, not the one that brought in the current regime in Iran. But hey, you don't have to know the difference, because as long as it supports idiotic anti-American mythology, who cares? The second one is all hearsay, which, when you consider Saddam's Ba'athist regime were committed socialists, seems rather counterintuitive, does it not? So, I guess South Korea and Japan, who are also routinely threatened, don't count? You do realize that you're actually DEFENDING NORTH KOREA, right? That explains a lot. "Evil" like stopping Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, "evil" like bringing the Soviet Union to its knees without a shot ever being fired? "Evil" like the Marshall Plan rebuilding Europe after the Europeans wrecked it? "Evil" like keeping two thirds of the population of the Korean peninsula out from under the boot of the Kim regime? "Evil" like doing our best to contain communism (you know, actual evil, responsible for the deaths of at least 100 million people in the 20th century)? The US is by far the largest force for good in the world. Containing and/or stopping the behavior of bad actors is not "warmongering". There's a reason the past 70 years have basically been the best in human history, and that reason is the United States. The Pax Americana is one of the best things to ever happen to the world, and you can't make a realistic argument against that. And "racist" is STILL a meaningless term used exclusively by idiots. Don't have an actual argument? Call people RACIST! That'll work.
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