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[–] NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

without them, much of the Pentagon’s advanced hardware risks slipping from superiority to obsolescence.

I think you mean, "parity at best".

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hey now what other aircraft do you know that fly on the ground, and use the ocean for cover

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago

Ok fine the soviets did it both first, and deliberatly, and better...

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

i wonder how long it will take to recover once the full force of american capital is used to make recovery a priority and i dread hearing about the humanitarian fallout from doing so.

[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's the beauty of these moves by China, no amount of money can solve the problems they create quickly. It took China, with its full resources of state planning, decades to build their supply chains to this point. Neoliberal capital simply can't compete with that. The US has never more been a paper tiger.

Check out the article in this post for the details.

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[–] VoCore@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Picture the Belgian Congo uranium mines, but in the american southwest and it's prison camps full of "enemies of the state".

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if they'll move Coachella so that they don't have to see the prisoners forced to mine the lithium in the Salton Sea

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They never moved the Nova Music Festival.