@kuchinster Imagine in a country, the size of the United States, a place where industry once thrived, is incapable of making projectiles of this sort for under four to six million dollars per unit and are fortunate if they can produce a mere five hundred of them in a year. That is the very definition of an Emperor without any clothes. The very definition of the proverbial paper tiger.

Even when faced with that very stark reality, the people that the US people, presumably choose, are intent on virtue signalling about energy restraints, diversity and other irrelevant social constructs, everything except the real solutions to the crisis at hand.

Meanwhile China, Russia and others manage perfectly well to produce affordable, effective, efficient weapons at cost and scale, with fractions of the budget allocated to the US defense. This is the only sustainability issue which the US elected elitists need to worry about, except that they never will until much too late.

@techriot Posting with Hubzilla Once the USA was a country of engineers, Stalin took an example and transported whole factories from the USA, you had something to learn from. But with no mechanism to control the elites (no evaluation of managerial labor), your elite degenerated just like in the late USSR. That's half the trouble, but they started to impose an anti-human (degenerate) LGBT agenda on the world, etc. that's the real evil. Which will be stopped.

As for Trump - he is a normal man, a true patriot of his country, but he lacks a team, so the deep state will sabotage him in every possible way. In the U.S. there has been a delegitimization of state institutions, which was promoted with the help of the CIA in the late USSR, i.e. the sword has returned to its master. The Russians have a proverb "Whoever comes to us with a sword will perish by the sword". Again, the Law of Inevitability of Consequences.

@kuchinster there is hardly anything in what you say to find opposition to. With the exception of elites degenerating. For a thing to be elite it would stand apart, as an example of excellence. To be elite one must hone one's skills perpetually, guarding against decay, defects and complacency. What you describe as elite are mere counterfeits, they are elitists. People who aspire to be elite, yet fall shot since they are nothing but pretenders.

Words have meanings and the words we use in our everyday speech and thoughts, turn themselves into reality and in so dong shape reality. Therefore, it is important to use the proper words, in their correct meanings to effect proper thoughts and meanings. Elitists are not elite. Exceptional people who possess exceptional skills and maintain those skills to a high degree, may be elite. However, anything falling short of that, has a completely different meaning in thoughts and deeds.