'It smells like s**t:' Sick US Navy sailors expose the vile murky water they're forced to drink and wash with that tastes like FUEL - as officials admit it was contaminated by waste and E.coli

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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'll put hairs on your chest

[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Whenever somebody tells me some shit like "Half of Russia's nukes probably don't even work" I think about this kind of stuff. A LOT of the US miitary equipment is in terrible shape or doesn't work. Witha military budget that is bigger than a lot of developed nations' GDP.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The difference is that in a war the US can just make staggering amounts of equipment very quickly to replace what doesn't work.

In WW2 there was a stat something like the US and Japan were racing to build aircraft carriers and in the time it took the US to build 200 Japan had built 2.

[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That was in WW2. Nowadays the difference is the billions in the pockets of the big wigs of the military-industrial complex.

For example, somebody here cited a cost for tritium, used in thermonuclear bombs. It was something on the order of $15,000 per gram IIRC? And then stated that there is no way Russia can afford this cost for all their fusion devices. I pointed out that it costs that much because EVERYTHING military costs a fortune in the USA. Russia likely owns the entire production chain for their tritium and thus likely gets it for a small fraction of that price.

You just can't compare the two militaries. In an all-out conflict, Russia EASILY wipes out the entire West and likely survives. Not undamaged, but survives as a nation.