I don't like to make too much of a business of joking about how the US military is bad at doing war because the inverse (a world where we're good at wars) would be an even worserer situation but like. Jiminy fucking Christ we're really really bad at wars it's downright remarkable
I'm really hung up on the oil thing. I love the part where we apparently have a critical interest in preserving the economy of the country we're trying to blow up because our economy will collapse if their economy collapses. I just. That's the worst anyone's ever done it, buddy. It's like the eternal war in 1984 but like the Jason Friedberg version of 1984. If the term total war describes the Clausewitzian mobilization of an entire country's political and economic apparatus towards war then the USA of America is in a permanent state of Quarter-Ass War. Like they're never gonna get there but they're gonna keep on trying anyways
Raids. They think they're gonna subdue a country half the size of the continental US with commando raids in order to avoid a costly occupation. "Uhhh yeah we don't gotta command nor control nuthin we're just gonna do Calla Doody on em til they say quits" I. Everyone is 12 now.
Clown-ass evil empire for clowns. I think all the ppl that had called Trump a bonapartist was right cuz this is some Napoleon 2 shit if i ever did seent it
it feels like their incompetence at war is directly linked to a desire to do war. It's trite to say but I think "They are so bad at war they want to wage it" works for the modern era. The more the bomber mentality took over in ww2 and afterwards, the worse America got at war and the more they wanted to do it. Being good at war would involve knowing how disastrous/expensive/long it would be to try it.
It makes no difference what clowns think of the circus, said the judge. The circus endures. As well ask clowns what they think of stone. The circus was always here. Before clowns were, the circus waited for them. The dumbassest trade awaiting its dumbassest practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
The USA has been forced to the negotiating table while the strait is still closed and they haven't gotten any of their desired concessions or accomplished any stated goal while the entire world watched American tactics and equipment fail over and over and over again. You love to see it.
