KryptosFR t1_j1ygti6 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:20 AM

Reply to comment by sbr999 in Russia’s 1st Guards Tank Army partially deployed in Belarus, reports UK intelligence by sviterochec

The good news is that the US military might finally be able to decrease their spending and invest it in something else like, I don't know, education or healthcare.

The bogeyman was a sad scarecrow all along.

TheGhostOfGeneStoner t1_j1ytxh9 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 12:16 PM

No, for the last several years of the formal GWOT, the US military knew that their time there would be drawing to a close and starting touting preparations for a near peer conflict. While many assumed it was Russia they were referencing, it was actually China. For instance, the B-21 Raider was built specifically to solve the problem of having a strategic bomber that could hit the Chinese mainland without endangering carrier groups or putting air-air refueling tankers in danger.

Edit - in short, the boogeyman still exists, we’ll just change some details so he remains scary