• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    She claimed that the US would have the most lethal force in the world. The only way you get and maintain that lethality is continual practice. You have to continuously fight wars if you want to stay the most lethal military in the world. This is one of the biggest reasons the US is so militaristic. People aren’t in the military for all that long. 4-8 years is typical. If you don’t fight wars all the time, you quickly lose your advantage. There’s no way to have the most lethal military without using it regularly.

    So, if Kamala wasn’t talking about attacking Iran, who was she talking about? Who else was she intending to bomb in order to maintain US military lethality?

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      I’ve heard this line before.

      How far do you think she would have gotten if she said “we need like a C- tier fighting force?”

      Literally every president in my lifetime, and basically since we had a standing army, has talked about how strong our military should be.

      Considering that almost none of them (with one very notable exception) started a war with Iran, equating a strong military with a desire to attack Iran seems far-fetched.