War

How Do

Chill Clowns, War

It is a 100% false “fact” that in Vietnam (or anywhere else that has been said about) that 90% of soldiers didn’t fire their weapons to kill. Or as sometimes is heard, at all.

I’ve seen this claim trotted out about WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and other conflicts. But it’s made up. It’s just deceit and delusion. I believe where this faux fact comes from is that it takes a lot of ammo downrange to kill any one hostile. Suppressive fire is most of the fire used in every modern war. By design, by the way. In the Afghanistan war, for instance, there were 250,000 rounds fired for every insurgent killed.

This absurd nonsense gets trotted out about various wars depending on what sort of ideological axe is being ground and it’s just lunacy, for a few reasons but the main one is this: when the enemy is on top of you and you’re in small arms range, you’re often fighting for your life. Even the most pacifist and wilting soldier is going to be tossing whatever they have downrange at any target they can plausibly identify.

How do people believe such goofy crap?

‘Lectric

Chill Political Economy, Politics, War

We are planning now what electronics and imported stuff we are going to buy in the next few weeks and months because those sorts of goods are going to get radically more expensive soon or just become unavailable altogether.

So get your gettin’ on from the gettin’ place, people. Soon all of that will be much more expensive or just not available at all, depending on the exact timing of tariffs and war.

Dimon-stration

Chill Prediction, War

Jamie Dimon says World War III may have already begun.

Unusually for him, Jamie Dimon is 100% correct. We are already at war. It’s just so far a low-intensity war1 and we aren’t acting like it yet.

Referencing a Washington Post article, Dimon continued, “World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries.”

This is accurate. We could forestall a greater conflict now if we wanted to, but no one is even attempting that. We should be doing these things:

1) Evicting Russia and DPRK from Ukraine post-haste.

2) Preventing Israel from further (justified) killing in Gaza and Lebanon.

3) Building up our defense base to be about twice what it is now, concentrating on aerial and naval drones, and much better coordination with our allies.

4) Forcing other NATO members to increase their militaries greatly as we will not be able to fight Russia in Poland and China in the South China Sea at the same time.

5) Reshoring as much industrial production as quickly as we possibly can.

The above is how we prevent WWIII and if that fails, how we make it the least bad catastrophe it can be. Because it’s coming and no one seems to notice or really care.

  1. Well, unless you’re Ukrainian.

Reshore

Chill War

The calculation China is running now — even apart from the election — is how far it can build up its military before America significantly reshores enough manufacturing to be able to fight an extended war.

This is what matters to the conflict that is coming; this is the make or break. It is a race most of us here in the US do not even know we’re running, but we are. If we can restore enough domestic manufacturing capability before China determines it’s ready to fight, we’ll come out ahead. If not, China will take Taiwan and eventually Philippines and the territory of other allies.

And right now, it’s not looking good for us.

Butchery

Chill War

Russia is resorting to even more meat waves now as they’ve started to run out of mothballed equipment to press back into service. That’s why you see more insane things like motorcycle assaults in daylight against fortified positions and singletons running around on the battlefield.

Russia still might win but the loss of life is going to be beyond belief. But apparently they are ok with it.

Tankies

Chill America Fuck Yeah, War

Our equipment mostly rocks the mic like a vandal, no matter what some leftist doofbags claim. Yeah, sure, the T-64 is a great tank if you like your whole army dying in like 0.02 seconds when hit with an RPG or a brisk wind.

If there had been a shooting war during the Cold War, we would’ve tore up the USSR’s shit like a cat with roll of toilet paper. And unfortunately we might yet get that chance in 2030 or so.