China spent 250 billion US dollars on defense last year. Clearly that’s for nothing.

China spends so much on its military and miltech. Why is that again?

Don’t forget Africa!

nothings certain. Im hoping mills and collins flop and the young populist dude sweeps it. I would not be surprised at all to see Susan win a fair election or a rigged election. I would be pleased if she didn’t.

So last November the republicans ran a ‘fair voting’ law in Maine and it got voted down by 65% of the state. Susan collins seat is at risk indeed. I see a lot of Graham Planter signs in the place of the old Trump signs. I think they are shitting a brick about midterms and this law is a political calculation to do what ever they need to do to skew the election in her favor. At this point I think she might just do it for the head lines. She’s always contemplating until last minute when she always votes with her voting block.

The goal for the F-35 was to create jobs and taxable revenue. Projecting power indeed. Manipulating other countries to “keep up with mil tech” even tho we all know our adversaries are 20 years behind. Maybe investing in schools or diplomacy could have created greater returns for the American public

I know it was a joke, they always vote as a block because they have no independent thoughts.

It’s called unfinished business. Xi is not going to give up on reunifying all of china. They got their Hong Kong now they need the Taiwan

Well, our economy is collapsing from bad debt and inflation, we’ve alienated ourselves from our ally’s, we’ve relocated aircraft carriers and are starting new wars.

It’s honestly a great time for china to exert some force.

Umm hundreds of Chinese ambassadors to Xi Himself. How many do you want I’ll start pulling them.

China a country that has been trying to unify Taiwan since the civil war they couldn’t quite finish.

In a rare, unprecedented, political moment: republicans banned together to do something truly deplorable.

No shit how else was she going to keep her seat in the Senate lol

I mean they can be riddled with bugs and the best aircraft available. Chinas always going to lean in on raw numbers. Their aircraft are not superior, nor are their pilots who are always causing international incidents. The problem is the insane amount of resources that went into it and the fact that it really doesn’t have an adversary. There’s no telling if it will remain relevant for long enough to pay back the investment. For me it’s more of a “we needed a super jet like we needed a war in Iraq” vibe. No question its better than the Chinese equivalent (which there is none) Question is why the fuck did we build it?

Basically I’m trying to access some social services now, and the administrators don’t give a fuck about the community they are paid to tend to. Real sad

They’ve literally structured our economy around paying you enough to qualify for it. Not your fault our leaders are morons.