• marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    24 hours ago

    I’m sorry you’re still deluded that the US is a super power or Europe can switch to a manufacturing economy fast enough to replace the entire lack of all US missile defense which has been pulled out of all of Europe for its idiotic war with Iran.

    Maybe I’m wrong and Russia somehow fucks up the literal golden opportunity that Israel presented it with, but give Ukraine literally has already taken multiple missile salvos with zero interceptions since the zionist war on Iran started…

    • FlordaMan@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      You can say the US won’t support europe anymore. But you can’t deny they are still a super power:

      1. They have a lot of nukes
      2. They spend sooo much money and resources on their military
      3. They have a very big pool of highly educated people

      China becoming a superpower does not make the US less of a super power.

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        23 hours ago

        Well … Yes and no. Look at the war with iran. They have no control, no upper hand, no strong negotion position. (And I have very strong doubts on the big pool of educated)

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        22 hours ago
        1. They say they have a lot of nukes, the way Trump has acted regarding nukes suggests the someone let slip to him the arsenal is way lower than publicly reported. Also the DoE has been in the hands of cut and sell people for last the twelve years continuously. It’s not unlikely many nukes were taken offline to make their department look less wasteful.

        2. Expense does not buy quality, hence the shortage of Patriot 3 missiles, and the failure of the US to protect Israel despite sinking literally the entirety of their military into just doing that for several months. They couldn’t even stop Iran. They had to expose top-secret sound-based kill technology just to capture the democratically elected leader of Venezula. They had to flee Afghanistan and are considering fleeing Iraq.

        3. The US really, really doesn’t have a big pool of educated people. 54% of US adults are functionally illiterate by international standards, 21% are totally illiterate. The exceedingly few home-grown highly educated people have been taking external jobs more and more frequently for the last 30 years. First in Europe and Japan, now in Europe and China. They restrict the number of doctors allowed to graduate each year, so per capita they produce fewer doctors than Cuba, and per capita nearly every single European country produces more PhD graduates. But even without comparisons a new post-grad degree holder in the US is 33% likely to leave the US instead of working for a US company. Even beyond that test scores have been gradually and consistently declining across the US since 2003 with ‘no child left behind,’ so there’s not even a generation of geniuses to fill the spots.

        • antonim@lemmy.world
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          13 hours ago

          54% of US adults are functionally illiterate by international standards, 21% are totally illiterate.

          It’s not nice to make things up and/or reinvent what words mean. No, 21% of Americans is not “totally illiterate”.