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How Incompetent and Over-Funded is the U.S. Military?

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Under orders from their Fuhrer-in-Chief, the United States military has been sinking Venezuelan boats and killing civilians. Trump claims that they are drug smugglers, while the government of Venezuela says they were pleasure craft. Members of the National Guard are invadeing blue states as Trump attempts to enact martial law to prevent protests against his fascist policies. Maybe Trump wants to give the Pentagon a much-needed victory They couldn’t defeat the North Koreans, were forced to retreat from Vietnam permanently, and lost to the Taliban and Iraq’s army before the conflicts began. Our military is not trained to fight in those types of wars. Hell, they couldn’t stop Trump’s Nazi army from invading the Capitol Building on January 6. Martha Gellhorn, a famous war correspondent, once wrote: "Governments are all bad everywhere, only differently bad. I've known that for a long time". This quote reflects her long and varied experience covering con...