The Western Military Isn’t Looking So Mighty Now

How many Ls before it’s ludicrous?

This is all a fully NATO (US) equipped army has been able to move Russian lines after 10 days. Squint if you can’t see it. The poor, brave Ukrainian men who have died for this folly. Via

The United States and its proxy NATO have been losing wars and wrecking countries for decades now. As Sarah Miller says, “The US has essentially lost all the wars it has fought in the last 50 years, starting with Vietnam, ending with Afghanistan and, most would agree, including Iraq/Syria.” President Jimmy Carter said that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace, making it, as he wrote, “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” (via Wade Davis). At some point if you wage all this war and you don’t win, you have to lose. You can only delay it for so long, and ‘so long’ is coming on strong.

While the United State has the biggest military in the world, this is really a measure of how corrupt it is, not how good. The Pentagon is unauditable. They spend way too much for everything, and spend even more when it goes wrong. The current Defense (War) Secretary walked straight out of an arms dealership (Raytheon) and he’ll be back there when his tour of corruption is done. The United States Military is effectively privatized, as most dollars go to private contractors, certainly not grunts, and certainly not state production. The contracts are also effectively, monopolized. As imperial Senator Elizabeth Warren said, “In the 1990s, America had 51…