We need to dismantle this militaristic mindset and really start to contemplate what it is doing not only to people but to the planet!
I am sincerely tired of a large portion of my taxes being used by the military to create toys for them to dream up and play with. Our military is given obscene amounts of money to keep us “safe”. We would be much better off if we were communicating with our “enemies “. The current military scheme sounds like some conspiracy theory by Trump’s favorite and medaled “intellectually important” conspiracy theorist from Texas.
There never seems to be even the slightest acknowledgement that peace might be a possible goal and worth at least trying to achieve. The USA assumes that violence is the only way, that any non-compliant nation is an enemy and needs to be attacked, threatened, sanctioned, vilified….. International law is regarded as “not for us”- we are far too important, rich and led by corporation- linked military strategists with no thought of negotiations, agreements, treaties which might actually avoid the conflicts we relish.
It’s good that the navy is planning for unmanned ships by 2030 because, the way we’re going, humans are likely to be swiftly headed for extinction by then.
All this and the USA still cannot seem to win a War (since WWII). Of course, every time we lose a War, the military just asks (and gets) more money to do War better the next time. What a farce. Wake up America.
Please do NOT keep up the pretence that the USA won WW2, which was decisively won by the USSR with huge losses and the Western Front was far behind and much less important. At the time even the USA admitted this, but conveniently introduced the cold War and Russian wickedness to make Russia the enemy even now.
Of course the Soviets were most responsible for the victory, but the US was on the winning side and made a significant contribution in blood and treasure.
I suppose if it had been a robocop, as it were, that had been dispatched to investigate George Floyd’s suspicious $20 bill, he would still be alive, along with the thousands who will die from the Covid effects of the mass protests. The corruptibility and fallibility of humans seems to almost beg to be replaced by the machines, who can say which will be more dystopian, more Derek Chauvins or the machines? It seems we already have the worst of both worlds with the human controlled drone killings.
Always war. Always on the offensive. Never a thought to diplomacy and peace, which doesn’t cost a dime and saves lives and the health of our planet. At some point in time the rest of the world, that has not gone insane, is going to say enough is enough one way or another. At this time, it seems to center on financial warfare, as China, Russia and other countries (even allies like Germany) figure out ways to circumvent our punitive dollar system to acquire oil and other commodities by dealing among themselves. That, I’m sure, will send those American drones and other automated warfare into overdrive.
Ah, but, Punkyboy, the Lives of those “others” do not matter one iota. They are as the lives of fleas from this country’s ruling elites (financial, political, military and so-called intelligence). Only their (ruling elites) lives matter, are worthy of concern. Money is to be made endangering, destroying the lives of those “others” – the more so if they are not as low melanin as “we” are.
Russia is already claiming it has developed nuclear capable naval drones that can even quietly push up rivers like the Mississippi. The US is not likely to find itself alone in developing naval drones.
One can only hope so. Otherwise we are doomed….
And why is it that we assume that Russia and China are not already ahead of us in these spheres????
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Sadly, Mr. Klare lacks the wit to assess the difference between offensive operations and defensive operations. For all it being called the department of defense instead of the department of war, the US military is an offensive command focused on attacking other countries, not focused on defending the US. One does not need robotic dreadnoughts to defend the US and other countries can certainly counter our dreadnoughts by simply hiding from them until they are attacked. The US will certainly not be menacing other countries from bases around the world. (Even if we had the money for it.)
Well this sucks. A future where the US terrorizes the planet with destroyer-sized drones, encircling countries like China with enough fire power to kill thousands or millions, and not suffer a single casualty from the safety of an air conditioned lounge in Nevada. It will be like Afghanistan, but on the scale of world war. What of the scenario where the only way adversary countries can meaningfully strike back against the US, is an ICBM?
What did we expect to come from 30yr of internet war games. Just the logic behind this type of thinking is childish.
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