the us has lost a full fucking 25% of the Reaper fleet during the Iran war, and it wasn't doing great during the Houthi shenanigans this is really hammering home how the US has not fought a credible nation-state opponent since, if you want to be generous, Iraq 1. It's a good goddamn thing we've got an ocean on both sides canuckolds to the north and our hothouse narco-slave-state to the south, because we drop a trillion every year on a military that mostly exists to make c students hang themselves in a Carls Jr and pay israelis to rape anything laying around still warm, including their own still-twitching burning dead. our specops are mollycoddled mollyaddled whores for a book deal and subnormal podcast meat, our sailors are using underoos soaked in shit and lighter fluid to destroy their own aircraft carriers WHILE THEY ARE ONBOARD, and our pilots are either mutant gamer klansmen using an xbox controller to trade a 2 million dollar missile for a father of four with a $75 AK-47 or else 5' 6" megaevangelical death mormons who fly high enough to touch the face of god but from whom god's face is eternally turned away