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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

No we don't need either massive demilitarization is needed.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Everyone else is buying drones from the current market leader: Ukraine.

Trump doesn’t like their leader.

So we don’t get drones.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Don't give him ideas. He's just going to use the military against US citizen, and not even the right ones.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Battleships have been obsolete for nearly a century.

Next this fool is going to order catapults for his bungled attack on the Persians.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They represent some of the biggest, most heavy firepower single pieces of equipment out there. Useless as they might be in the modern agility and precision based wars it's pretty on brand for someone who wants to present themselves as some kind of macho strongman.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

They represent some of the biggest, most heavy firepower single pieces of equipment out there.

Bruh still hasn't heard of the trebuchet..

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

About a century ago was WWI. Idk about that.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They were obsolete after WWI when the first aircraft carriers were introduced.

Come WWII they were food for torpedo bombers.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago

The U.S. needs universal healthcare, not battleships or drones prone to balloon military spending further.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 7 points 3 hours ago

Why are the Democracts giving Trump ideas on how not to fuck up his military spending? They really shouldn't be doing that, because they are on the long list of potential targets of that US military as soon as Trump decides he has enough of pretending to care about that whole constitution thing.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is big "Thrawn recommends fighters and Star Destroyers while the Emperor wants to build a Death Star" energy for those who know ball

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 54 minutes ago

The empire would have been more stable if they pushed Arquitens cruisers over star destroyers.

But then, the empire wasn’t meant to be stable or effective, either.

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

A Trump class battleship would have no class whatsoever.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

But would it have a ballroom?

[–] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Like school on a saturday

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 hours ago

Republicans keep demonstrating they're good at wasting taxpayer money.