How The US Army Has Been Defeated
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The US military has three main branches, which have all broken. The US Army snapped in Afghanistan and now — by proxy — in Ukraine. The Navy broke against Yemen, and the Air Force has lost air supremacy in the Middle East. All the baubles on all the branches have been comprehensively stomped by Russia.
I’ll cover each branch in turn, starting with the Army.
Army
The US Army was once an ‘expeditionary force’ but now it’s just an expensive farce. Under Bush the Younger, America was able to land troops on any continent, but under Biden the Old, they’re monumentally incontinent. Under Bush the Elder, America could put boots on the ground in Iraq, but Biden the Senior can only yell at clouds in Ukraine. How the mighty have fallen.
In another time, the execrable Jonah Goldberg said, “every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” But those ‘crappy little countries’ like Vietnam and Afghanistan actually defeated America. What message does he think the world has gotten…
