Yeah, it takes a lot of time, I feel you

Anti-military types will claim that's "a ridiculous number of tanks that are sitting ariund"

That's their exact wording

Which, aside from the "ridiculous" part (which is a subjective evaluation) is mostly because they aren't shooting anybody at the moment.

Which is probably better than the alternative.

The best level of military deployment is a question without an easy answer.

The US has a massive military. It also has massive obligations.

And alot of that comes down to holding a stick big enough no one makes you use it.

Yeah, I remember people were talking about how the US have global presence

Europe was completely was almost dependent on the US for defense. Japan, Korea and Taiwan usually measure their time to fight against China alone in weeks of months.

Europe's position is a bit more questionable mostly just because there's not too many obvious threats aside from Russia.

But the South China sea has been warming up.

And China is making a massive bid for military capabilities.

Ah, I get ya

The US military was actually downsizing from Iraq for awhile now IIRC

So it's less on edge than in the past.

Actually been cancelling jet fighter orders last I heard.

It is a fact that in terms of things like Tanks and planes, the US military is orders of magnitude larger than it's opposition. It's actually very similar to the UK navy just around the 1900s.

Which is slightly worrying. When Germany caught up around 1900-1910...

We're probably several decades away from China challenging the US, but when the China/Russia/Africa Axis hits critical mass things could get much harder.

If it hits critical mass.

Oh, my favorite "spend the whole allocation" Public universities do it. And private universities on public grants.

The US need to clamp down on socialism before that happens because you guys will have so many double agents

Do the socialists recognize China as communist?

I can't tell anymore.

But the Us should do something about the socialists. The general rule is that their policies are often counterproductive or hinder growth.

Or inefficient.

The US is so full of double agents already it's probably not possible to really rout it all out.

Heck, during the cold war, entire segments of the British intelligence services were in the employ of the Soviets or full of soviet sympathizers.

The US is full of such people too.

It's weird because SJWs hate China, but love the policies China put into place

"A protected internet where people can't say things the state disapprove of? Yeah! I love it!"

Because yknow

Fabulous protected speech and all

So funny story. The Chinese constitution protects freedom of speech...

Hahahaha

The Chinese government protect free speech about as well as they protect child workers

Yeah, but let it sink in for a second.

Just because you have piece of paper that is supposed to be the social contract that guarantees you something *does not mean* you will get it.

Which is why this freedom of speech stuff in the US, UK and EU is so damn important.

The Chinese literally have a line in the constitution guaranteeing the people the right to freedom of speech. But they added a couple exceptions to it and simply don't have it.