Because of intellectual property laws, military equipment repairs have to be done by the manufacturer now instead of in the field. Hilariously dumb. Even the global war machine is now being consumed by the vampires of capital.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This plus decades of essentially being a neocolonial gendarmerie plus other examples of naked profiteering anddisregard for their own troops makes me wonder how high the US desertion rate would soar in an actual peer conflict

    Land and set up shop near Mongolian border

    Whole FOB is immediately annihilated by hailstorm of Chinese hypersonic missiles that each individually cost less than the toilets in the bathroom

    Entire company/battalion immediately goes AWOL