Comment by cjbgkagh

16 hours ago

To align the interests there has to be a substantial negative consequence that would be felt by the grifters if the endeavor fails.

The US is already close to losing world hegemony status and it kinda needs it in order to print money / export inflation. A multipolar world is one where the US is greatly diminished and this will happen with or without losing a war.

> To align the interests there has to be a substantial negative consequence that would be felt by the grifters if the endeavor fails.

Like what though? The failure in Iran has had pretty substantial consequences that are being felt. If that's not good enough, what is? You were talking like you thought there was a realistic path to a better military, but consequences for the US aren't going to come much bigger than this.

  • You're conflating the grifters with the US in general, the grivers are able to continue grifting even at the expense of the US. This is requiring too much hand-holding from me so I'm done with this conversation.