How come American military corruption ends up with building unneeded doomsday weapons, a supply chain that exist for no real reason and scifi machines. Where as its peers corruption says they have these things and just pocket the money
How come American military corruption ends up with building unneeded doomsday weapons, a supply chain that exist for no real reason and scifi machines...
Because the US militarybis accoutable to its soldiers and the toys we get to play with. The nunbers are high enough for the politicians cut as noticed by the leading global military budget.
Gotra finance the coreuption & the bullshit they ordered too.
>building unneeded doomsday weapons, a supply chain that exist for no real reason and scifi machines.
Makes it easier to hide some corruption since those mechanisms are legal. And the people doing it are mostly contractors and politicians, sure it happens to some Officers. But the politicians don't want to share money with them. The less people in on your scheme is the less people you have to pay out.
>American military "corruption"
>build awesome fucking weapons
>it's troops can get fucking Burger King in hostile territory
>stays 10-20 years MINIMUM ahead of "peers"
Uh more corruption plz.
one responds to shareholders, the other responds to thug overlords who don't have to offer any explanation as long as their kick up their contribution to the higher tier of thugs
Because big explosions make the American people happy when they happen to people we don't care about (foreigners). That means the powers that be gave us we cool shit to blow up Russians with, but got blue balled. We settled for cave people instead.
>a supply chain that exist for no real reason
What does that mean in English?
America maintains a global network of bases and sea patrols that do nothing but act as a gibs system for its client states so that politicians can funnel money back to their coffers.
Like how Ukraine was used before russia fucked it up, and why trump was impeached for messing with Biden's graft in Ukraine.
>global network of bases and sea patrols that do nothing
Ahhh yes better to depend upon poor third worlders to combat piracy (or radical insurgencies) in their region. It will totally benefit global trade and the world order. I'm also going to point out that the U.S. can respond quicker to global emergencies like earthquakes anywhere in the world faster than anyone else.
It's around 10% of our government spending and we pay less taxes than many of our eurofriends. So our military budget is not "draining you for all you got".
Because despite the endless attempts to try and destroy it from within and without; despite the immense ugliness, age, wear, tear, and rot that constantly threaten to rip it apart; despite almost everything, the System still works. Perhaps by sheer momentum. Perhaps by the irrational self-sacrifice of thousands of unknown idealists. Perhaps only for a few more years. But somehow the System still works and produces results.
America is a fluke, the natural state of man is short sighted pussies that spend wastefully like most of Europe because human suffering makes people feel bad, or greedy power hungry thieves like the China and Russia aligned block
>How come American military corruption ends up with building unneeded doomsday weapons, a supply chain that exist for no real reason and scifi machines. Where as its peers corruption says they have these things and just pocket the money
you think like a enthusiast of violence, rather than an operator in a for-profit system. the us gov't is run by large corporations.
Boris Yeltsin was literally moved to tears during an unscheduled visit to a Texas supermarket. The lie of Russian socialism was exposed. The Soviets lied through their teeth about everything. But here Yeltsin was given a view of how a regular non-propagandized American supermarket worked. And it broke his mind. He thought that the capitalists lived in squalor like the rest of the third world and that American prosperity like Soviet prosperity was a propaganda device.
But despite everything that transpired in the years after, the Russians just couldn't figure out how to make capitalism work in their country. The idea of promoting people based on merit and competency, the notion of paying people according to how well they perform, the culture of mutual trust and fairness, just couldn't be translated from American to Russian.
In some ways Putin defaulting back to the typical Soviet way of doing things is understandable. It's the only tool they really know how to use. Threats, deception, nepotism, and brute force.
To be fair to them, shock therapy was bullshit and it was our idea.
If only they had done what Czechia had done, which was a slow&steady privatization that had short term pains and now strong economic growth.
The US made an error in supporting Yeltsin’s reelection, and hence his firesale of Russian enterprise to his Cronies, which are now the oligarchs.
that and the 1st world will likely always remain rich while the 2-3rd will remain poor
think about it like this, can everyone be rich?
brain drain is a hell of a killer to a nations growth
>think about it like this, can everyone be rich?
Yes.
I mean it more in a zero sum/relativistic way (in that there can only be one winner/leader) rather than in an objective absolute value way
we can all be *wealthier*, but we can't all be *the wealthiest* short of nuclear annihilation
I worked at that supermarket as a teenager and only found out of this event after I had quit. It's funny since it's a pretty dumpy and ghetto store compared to the nearby HEB and despite that our ghetto dumpy supermarket was the death nail to communism. God it feels good being American.
Communism is alive and well. It has a new home in the US.
Dude, liberal arts weebs with part time jobs giving thumbs up in social media about how they should receive more benefits its not communism, its what happens when parents lost the right to beat their children for being dumbasses.
Sounds like bullshit to me, especially considering the sheer amount of homelessness (the highest in the west) and wage slavery (the highest in the west) that america has. Not to mention the fact that not every state is southwest California
This sounds like one of those articles where it's "the US has such and such minimum wage, but so and so country only has half that!" followed by them ignoring shit like buying power, cost of living, cost of education, mandatory insurances, healthcare, amount of leisure time and mandatory holidays, etc.
Easy to be just as poor with a higher income if most of said income is gone just paying rent, food and bills.
>most European nations
Americans always seem so fucking retarded when they take Europe as a joke and conveniently ignore most nations are post soviet shitholes.
See above.
reminder: the US has the worlds highest MEDIAN (as in not overly skewed by outliers, a good representation of your typical American) disposable income (after taxes/necessities)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
reminder II: the average US house is x2 the size of the average german house
Because as bad as the corruption is in the US, and it is absolutely unacceptable, it's still to a level that makes its money doing things, not steeling shit.
The US has a lot of high level corruption and almost no low level corruption. Accountability is punishingly harsh at the lowest level and gets lost as you move up the ladder. Corruption requires collaboration and Americans are all social climbers with no sense of loyalty to their fellow schmucks, all being temporarily embarrassed rich guys. Only when people reach the upper crust does solidarity appear, for they've all 'made it' and all 'deserve it'.
Partially this:
Western Euros and their descendants balance a ravenous but well-hidden lust for blood and destruction with their guilt complex. Said guilt complex boils down to the fear that a giant boogeyman (IE: a religious figure or a religious inquisition/hidden commie plot/glowie agency) will find the sin in their souls and condenm them in the next life, rather it be a literal post-death life, or denying their ability to ever become the 'rich guys'.
I have no doubt that if the United States never formed and led NATO, Western Europe would have continued this mindset themselves.
>Americans are evil because they're honest and not a bunch of theiving little ratfucks! Good people would help their fellow man (me) steal everything I could!
Holy shit, this might be the most third-world post ever made. No wonder your country is such as shithole, you seething brownoid.
No, I think the point he's making there is that it's accepted that the wealthy can just get away with whatever they want.
Joke's on you I'm American.
Basically, American corruption is a chance for corpos to sell you the most outrageous shits and services for a jacked up prices. Thirdies corruption is just thieves in power just straight stealing from you.
based USian, just wanting to show of his toys and help out
Us military is about making money forever while it's peers are about making money immediacy. a 5 trillion dollar grant from the government in the US militaries hands are used to create a network that makes billions a year, if Russia or China had the same it would just get distributed to the officials
Because the next time we fight a conventional military, we want it to be like the invasion of Iraq or better
Not Ukraine
We want it to be an absolute 100% curbstomp within a few weeks to a month
American general wants his name on the next superweapon vs Russian general who wants his name on a super yacht
that supply chain exists to funnel money into pockets that then donate to political funds anon.
stairs and ramps for the navy...
Banan
Wrong. The wunderwaffen are just a way to launder money for the gov and for the big arms to get more political influence. USA is not overly militarized because of corruption, it's overly militarized because of his aggressive foreign policy and its military industry making a big percentage of the GDP. There's no "good" corruption, no silver line. If anything, taxpayers now pay for a crapload of unreliable and overly engineered gizmos that will hardly if not at all be deployed in war.
>over engineered
The Javelin would like a word
>wunderwaffen
How to out yourself as a thirdie in one word.
Its just normal weapons, there's nothing unusual about them for civilized nations with actual technology.
Yeah, nothing unusual about uranium tipped hypervelocity round lobbing railguns on stealth destroyers
Yes? Those big words are just an incremental improvement on current ships.
Not him but the railguns went nowhere and never really had a chance to.
Giant waste of money.
>Giant waste of money.
So we learned absolutely no lessons from it what so ever that could be applied to future tech?
Nothing that couldn't have been achieved at a tenth of the cost and in less time by not wasting time trying to drag a technology that wasn't anywhere near ready to use in practical applications.
>doubleposting on PrepHole
Also that's not even what I said, how are you such a retarded moron?
on PrepHole
First one got aborted but apparently survived my bad
But you called it a gaint waste of money, I'm pointing out the lessons learned from it made it not so
>Giant waste of money.
So we learned absolutely no lessons from it what so ever that could be applied to future tech?
That's a bold statement
The fact your mind can't handle it just shows you to be a primitive screwhead shitting in the street because indoor plumbing is a magical discipline beyond your ken.
Now you're just being an obtuse jingoistic drone for the sake of it. Your government is draining you for all you got and all you can do is lick their boots some more. How many stupid projects has the US endorsed just because they impressed boomer generals with no real grip on reality other than bond movies?
Well if squandering capital just because you can is a way to cope with everything else wrong in your country, be my guest do continue
Nordic model sounds good until you tell people they have to give half your salary to the government, now, look at me to the eyes and tell me, how many third world politicians (leftoids to that) are you going to trust with your hard earned cash?
Not at all, this is the 21st century after all
Because US military corruption gives money to companies and officials get a kickback or nice job for it. Russian and chinese military corruption gives money directly to officers.
>why
Because money is accounted for.
>more third world jealous shit posting
Yes we should dissappear so Russia, China and other shitholes can create their global hegemony because that will he better for everyone especially their neighbors. Those nations also aren't totally riddled with corrupt MICs.
Money babe. There's so much fucking cash floating around the American MIC that even if someone's skimming $10,000,000 off it barely registers. That shit happens in Russia and its more directly impactful because the total contract was only worth $90,00,000 and not $300,000,000
Because first world corruption is restricted to the upper echelons, while plebs who steal shit get punished
An US officer could not get away with selling gear to Mexican airsofters
American corruption:
>go to bakery to buy a cake for workplace party
>baker pulls a favor with your boss
>you get a call saying you have to buy two cakes instead
>you spent more money than neccesary, but now you have two cakes
Russian corruption:
>baker takes your money and tells you to come back tomorrow
>return the following day; he says to come back tomorrow again
>repeat every day until two weeks after the (cakeless) party
>he hands you a piece of gum he found on the bottom of his shoe that morning
>before you even have time to respond he's already fucked off to Monaco in his new yacht
Chinese corruption:
>baker takes your money
>hands you a picture of a cake printed out on A4 paper
>acts like you're being unreasonable when you point out that this isn't what you ordered
>"Look, it's exactly the same as the picture on the menu!"