American military officials say the Pentagon might need to dip into stockpiles in Asia to replenish supplies in the Middle East, congressional aides say.
So the real takeaway here is that the US military is basically that player in a video game who hoards all their health potions for the final boss, but keeps getting wrecked by the “mid-tier” opponents along the way because they’re “saving it” for the big showdown. Newsflash: there are no save points in real life. And that’s why smaller powers, like Yemen, can inflict serious pain on the US military, as the latter is trying to win a game it looks down on with one hand tied behind its back.
This also highlights why having a balance of power, like a bipolar system, is crucial for keeping Western dominance in check. After the USSR fell, that balance went out the window, but it’s slowly coming back now thanks to China. The key message being expressed here by these “worried US commanders” is going to show how important the role of China is in the world order.
The key to saving important items for when they’re needed, is to actually be competent and excellent in the game in the first place.
Now that the U.S. has started using a metric-shit ton of important items and resources, and STILL getting their asses handed to them (Ukraine, Isn’tReal, Venezuela, Yemen) it would take fucking decades to build up a mixed-system of resources, infrastructure and items, let alone to build up something even slightly frighteningly large, let alone something to actually substantially threatening to China or Russia, and further let alone something to actually challenge them on a somewhat serious level.
Hindsight is definitely 20/20, but it seems like the whole world has been extraordinarily coerced and gaslit by the U.S. to believe it’s own propaganda about it being an unstoppable beast. The “main character’s” plot armor is rapidly increasingly failing.
So the real takeaway here is that the US military is basically that player in a video game who hoards all their health potions for the final boss, but keeps getting wrecked by the “mid-tier” opponents along the way because they’re “saving it” for the big showdown. Newsflash: there are no save points in real life. And that’s why smaller powers, like Yemen, can inflict serious pain on the US military, as the latter is trying to win a game it looks down on with one hand tied behind its back.
This also highlights why having a balance of power, like a bipolar system, is crucial for keeping Western dominance in check. After the USSR fell, that balance went out the window, but it’s slowly coming back now thanks to China. The key message being expressed here by these “worried US commanders” is going to show how important the role of China is in the world order.
The key to saving important items for when they’re needed, is to actually be competent and excellent in the game in the first place.
Now that the U.S. has started using a metric-shit ton of important items and resources, and STILL getting their asses handed to them (Ukraine, Isn’tReal, Venezuela, Yemen) it would take fucking decades to build up a mixed-system of resources, infrastructure and items, let alone to build up something even slightly frighteningly large, let alone something to actually substantially threatening to China or Russia, and further let alone something to actually challenge them on a somewhat serious level.
Hindsight is definitely 20/20, but it seems like the whole world has been extraordinarily coerced and gaslit by the U.S. to believe it’s own propaganda about it being an unstoppable beast. The “main character’s” plot armor is rapidly increasingly failing.