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'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes.
But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production.
“Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'
Yes USA lost the trade war so resorts to brute force war crimes.
USA rogue state assassinating Irans leaders and threatening to continue with the same WAR CRIMES until USA gets its way.
Are you proud of being an apologist for war crimes and naked military aggression?
Please tell me how you are so certain the trade war is lost? No one else talks like that even China doesnt talk like that.
The US didnt kill Iran's leader. Israel has taken all the credit for that one and taking out there top officers. The US bombed military targets. The Iranians are racking up crazy war crimes with attacking civilian infrastructure from countries that did nothing. Blowing up civilian naval boats. Funding terror proxies that attack civilians and civilian shipping. You are so proud in yourself but again you fail to back up your claims. Iran murdered 35k people less than a month ago thats a crime against humanity.
You gotta decide make sure you blame the right people considering Iran isnt saying the US bombed there leaders. They have owned killing protestors though. They have admitted to hitting civilian infrastructure though. Using your examples no the US isnt committing war crimes but Iran sure is!
Oh and again still nice job ignoring facts again.... they really blow a hole in your whole little world and you just cant even engage. You scream war crimes when well we arent.
USA cannot manufacture most things competitively anymore- China is the most efficient manufacturer in the world and so dominates markets for manufactured goods and commodities.
This is well known and I am surprised you deny it.
The US is responsible for what its only ally in this illegal war does- without US support Israel would not have the military capability that it does.
It is a breach of international law that USA has committed and undermines decades of post WW2 standards and efforts to prevent bullying of smaller nations by larger ones.
Now USA is following the war crimes model of Russia- this should be concerning for anyone who does not want the world to be ruled by war criminals.
You understand the U.S. is the second largest manufacturer in the world right? We manufacture high value goods that’s not what China does. China has tried to but their technology remains inferior. If the U.S. wanted to be a state owned enterprise and have our companies sell for a loss and rebate them we could but it’s not sustainable.
China has a huge debt issue. The belt and road has had considerable flops costing them billions and even then they seized the assets they realized there was nothing of value there.
Wait so now you are saying that the U.S. should impose its will on another country right? You want them to force Israel into doing something? Isn’t that the same level of imperialism you scream against? So you want imperialism and claim that by not doing so is a breach of international law? This is another wild take by you.
Russia carpet bombs, targets civilians daily, captures and tortures individuals. The U.S. is utilizing targeted strikes, hitting military installation and military production sites, and literally can kidnap people because we don’t have a ground force to do so? Oh and we don’t threaten to nuke someone every couple of weeks. Russia is driving itself to population collapse at an accelerating rate losing tens of thousands a month. We are not the same at all.
USA has been kidnapping people for decades along with unlawful drone strikes on 'enemy combatant suspects' and is now kidnapping presidents (Venezuela) and assassinating the leaders of Iran.
'Extraordinary renditions' mean anything to you?
Torture by US operatives has been ongoing for decades in the multiple 'grey' sites operated by the US military.
All in breach of international law and the most basic standards of human decency.
It was the USA that started this dangerous breaching of international law decades ago.
China leads the west in multiple high tech areas including EVs, robotics, road and rail logistics, wind, solar and nuclear power generation.
Chinese producers and consumers pay less than half what US electricity consumers pay because the Chinese mixed model emphasizes minimising the input costs for production making China the most competitive manufacturing economy by far.
USA still holds a narrow lead on a few remaining areas but is losing ground fast.
China has demonstrably beaten the USA at capitalism- producing manufactured goods at a lower more competitive cost and increasingly beating the US in high tech areas as well.
The USA is waging a war of desperation because it cannot compete economically and can now only try to use its possibly still superior military power projection.
In the process USA is losing any moral high ground it may have previously held.
It is a sad thing to behold and clearly some refuse to see the emperor of USA has no clothes he is naked and exposed as a war criminal, tyrant, murderer and ultimately tragic loser.
You could not even defeat the Taliban of Afghanistan- one of the poorest nations on earth.
All US imperialist bullying does is prevent nations from evolving and throws them back generations into the depths of their cultural origins in a fight for survival.
Again. We did not kill the leader of Iran. Iran has even said that the US didn't do it. Why is that so hard for you to understand? China kidnaps people all the time, puts them in "reeducation camps," jails dissents for decades, not to mention coercing and forcing Uyghur women to marry Han Chinese, or "encouraging" Han Chinese to move to Tibet essentially creating colonies.
Frankly its the pot calling the kettle black given China's extreme internal suppression policies and people like Jack Ma essentially disappearing for two years because he criticized China.
China has admitted itself that it does not lead in innovation. That is a critical handicap. Chinese robotics are not good and we have seen video of how bad they are from straight up faking it with people to the robots going wild and destroying themselves. They don't have anything near the quality that someone like Boston Scientific has.
The EV tech is stolen, wind turbines have been found to have asbestos in them (ask Australia how that has worked out), the solar tech there companies are losing billions a year, and the nuclear generation lead you talk about is a mixture of stolen Westinghouse tech and open source US science from the 50's and 60's.
China's advantage has been breakneck speed and ignore risks associated with it. However, they are facing significant pollution issues, youth unemployment rates, and general unrest due to a series of failed policies including in solar (like mentioned before), housing, and labor disputes.
Its electricity is in part because its rapidly opening up powerplants that are coal and it is destroying the environment. Lets not forget how they messed up damming their rivers so bad that during monsoon season they ended up having to blow up a lot of them. By the end of last year the had a huge issue in massive solar projects they had built but well forgot they had to plug them into the grid.
More importantly China cannot produce pure enough semiconductors for electronic devices. They were able to hit the lower level of high purity for solar cells (the six 9's) but cannot produce the critical ultra-high purity (nine 9's).
You hint at China or anyone having a moral high ground over the U.S. when that just isnt the case. Trump has been in office now for a whole 13 months and yet you call him an emperor? What does that make Xi then? Pretty sure Xi has purged his country's leadership sentencing people to death or life in jail while others have disappeared. Pretty sure China is a bully in the South China Sea not to mention a bully with its Belt and Road Initiative which was never designed to actually help anyone only give a legal reason to take countries resources.
The war in Afghanistan was won militarily. I mean the USSR who was right there wasn't able to pull off what we were able to. What we failed at was nation building. Two entirely different things. Just like you mentioned yesterday how the U.S. just loses all of these wars and even with Vietnam the U.S. had been pulled out of the country for two years before the South fell.
This is the last time I am going to deal with you over this because its just not worth it. You dip duck and dodge like you are playing dodgeball. You act like China is so superb but don't live there. You consistently get your information just blatantly wrong. I mean its literally called a CIA black site idk what a grey site is because a grey site means a legal, unofficial channels selling branded goods (electronics, software, video games) not authorized by the original manufacturer. The US could find a cure for cancer and you would criticize it. I talk openly about not agreeing with everything the US is doing but you refuse to ever budge or acknowledge things that everyone know are happening. It is the wildest thing.
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Thats.... thats just plan not true and you can do the math with the payloads the US sent to the Middle East. Plus factor in the dramatic drop off in Iran and that people are just moving to C RAMs instead. The only things starting to get through are the attacks on civilian infrastructure that the US didnt place coverage at because it wasnt well a US base. Things that have gotten through have no affected operations at all while Iran has no navy and no air force.
China has purged all of their capable generals they have a hollow leadership. Xi Jinping has no military experience so the idea he is able to even threaten or wage a war is hilarious.