I often hesitate to engage the illeterate, but here goes...
If you don't think conventional weapons are useful in modern combat that I don't know what to tell you.
Are you a veteran and have you ever served in a combat theater ? In the last decade?
Conventional munitions are never going away and surgical strikes like I mentioned will continue to be utilized on high priority targets and high pay off targets.
Forward observation, snipers & even artillery crews have largely been automated & replaced & the US military (which is nothing more than a welfare apparatus now) would need complete reform just as the Russians, Ukrainian, Chinese, etc are doing but it's not going to happen. Who's the most lethal single man/small team in modern combat? It's no longer the sniper, it's the FPV operator/crew (which often no longer carry guns nor grenades). How many does the US have? None. US doesn't even produce drones. You've got new companies like Anduril (look at Anduril's weapons menu, roadrunner, barracuda, etc - it's nothing conventional) which are poised to "disrupt the defense industry", ie the big 4 contractors, but they do not scale anywhere near to Russia, Chinese or Ukrainian capacity & currently they're tiny, irrelevant companies.
I know, I saw that heroic strike of like 2 or 3 jihadis in the hisotrically strategic Somali mountains that are so important to the US. Man, we really need the Somali mountains. We all talk so much about the Somali mountains. Such an important "combat theater". Mr Trump is obviously fearless. It's definately not like the US is too weak to open up the Red Sea/Suez... definately not that....
Factually in corrct. Many firings. The best firings. They'll continue to be fired and we should all rejoice.
Have you actually been paying attention to the USAID discussion?
FBI agents, former allies, and the nation's top record keeper are among those President Trump has fired.
www.bbc.com
As per your article, it's a whole
200 people fired thus far, which is nothing. You proved my point. Again, this is media theatrics for a drug addicted, illiterate population. I know you think it's funny & a large part of your existence is to "own da libs hhahehe!!1"., but "the libs", that's your neighbors, brothers & sisters, they're identical to you & celebrating their actual despair/hardship of hard firings as 100's of 1000's employees move into government housing would mean you can't walk public spaces in peace, which is why it won't happen.
If you want to talk oilngas, I can do that, but my point wasn't that it's significant just that Petro is slapping around US companies for fun, proving the histroic Monroe Doctrine is over.
Where am I from? It's irrelevant, but Same place you claim to be from, hoss. Bornnbred in the petrochemical corridor, started my career in oilngass bidness under one of the most legendary oilmen Texas ever knew, breathing flared hydrocarbons when you were in diapers, when it was still a profitable industry. When daddy Bush & Clinton were taking countries like Napoleon, our tools were used in exploration & production so I understand what credible threats look from a nation state look like as I profited from them (they're very polite & always followed by action) & why Trump's threats are theatrics for the demoralized, humilliated & unwashed masses.
I'm guessing you clean tanks in east Houston, but if you worked downstream you'd know Oilngas bidness never recovered from '08, you should well know in our area alone something like 10 refineries are shutdown since 2020 & they're opening up battery plants (although lazy American drug addict chemists are largely too inexperienced/incompetent to make them productive). Hydrocarbons are irrelevant, not worth discussion & certainly no longer part of foreign policy. If you know so much about Guyana, you'd know the oilmen there have said it's the last time in history it'll happen.
I'll say it for the 3rd time, Trumps theatrics achieved nothing, the Chinese aren't going anywhere in Panama, this is being pumped out covid style in Spanish language press from Panama, they'll be audited by Panamian firms & that's it. US has 0 leverage over Panama, yes they import nearly all their food but Brazil dominates food production & Lula has already said they'd fully support Panama & US has no right to dictate anything.
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