@TiberiusBravo87 The Russian style of military spending might be better for a messy world with failing supply chains, bombed out runways, etc. Russia just bombed the Deep State in Syria. A lot of this shit doesn't need all that fancy next-gen bomber crap. Just fly over and bomb them because you decided to do it. It's far easier to just control your own territory making money off of it than to be wilding out on everyone. The warmongering control freak petrodollar hallowed out America. Russia doesn't have that problem. They can do all of the stuff in house with an economy that is about the size of Italy. How is that? These stealth planes are mostly bullshit for going against developing countries which haven't been blessed with Russian anti-air batteries. The aircraft skins are outrageously expensive, temperamental and fragile. They are flying turkeys designed to spend money. Every project has a purpose. Most of the purposes are to spend money. It's true that America was the greater empire than the USSR because we've been able to occupy Afghanistan for far longer before going bankrupt. Now it's someone else's turn to use heroine money to fund black operations all over the planet. America has all that it needs right at home and with two huge oceans defending it. Get that thorium melt away reactor tech going and don't sweat the small shit. That is what I would do if I were an beautiful immortal vampire who could live long enough to see the larger picture and the other side of it rather than just beating off for today. Beating off is also free though so no reason to not do both.

Woke Mil, by Anatoly Karlin - The Unz Review

The Influence of SJW Commissars Upon History

On paper, the US still has by far the world’s strongest military. This is the case whether or not you measure it by military spending, by various indices of military power (e.g. MEU, CAP, or the CMP developed on this blog), or as pertains to the narrower if arguably more relevant naval sphere, by naval megatonnage (even if the gap with China rapidly shrinks as the PLAN adds the equivalent of a major European Great Power navy every single year).

However, there are increasing reasons to think that large parts of this superiority could be becoming illusory – a dangerous state of affairs, given the recovery of bipartisan support for US military intervention and American elites’ oft-stated confidence in their military supremacy.

Some of these reasons are well covered in the military/strategy sphere, such as those relating to issues of the technological convergence of Chinese and other potential adversaries’ weapons systems. The most hyped example are Russian/Chinese hypersonic weapons, though there are many more prosaic examples, ranging from progressive improvements in Chinese fighter engines to the unexpected precision of Iranian ballistic missiles. This is accompanied by US procurement failures, with the F-35 program being the most high-profile example. However, what has not been written as much about is the rapid degradation of the human capital component in the US military – a factor that is no less important than military capital or technological prowess.

Fundamentally, you need your military forces to be staffed with high IQ and well trained men with high morale and commitment to its cause. High IQ is especially important in commanding positions and in the more “g loaded” services. According to a 2015 paper by M.F. Cancian and M.W. Klein, it seems to have been going rapidly down even before the diversity drives of the 2010s. The cognitive performance of US Marine officers has seen a 10 IQ point decline between the 1980s and 2010.

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By multiplying the average measured IQs for the four major ethnic groups in the United States with their changing demographic ratios, we can calculate how the demographic changes have affected the national intelligence over time. In 1960, we calculate the national IQ average to have been 100.3. By 2010, the average national IQ had fallen four points, to 96. By 2030, if the current population estimates are correct, it will fall another point, to 95. Lest you think that average national intelligence is irrelevant, note that just that four-point difference is essentially equal to the difference between countries such as Austria, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, and countries such as Uruguay and Portugal. There is a strong correlation between societal wealth and average national intelligence as measured in IQ.

Even the left-wing British paper, The Guardian, was recently forced to take note of this phenomenon, as it reported that scientists have determined genes influence academic ability across all subjects, and that as much as 60 percent of the observed differences between various population groups can be explained by genetic factors. So, the mass migration of the last 50 years has been materially dysgenic and has literally made Americans stupider on average. It’s not just you, mass entertainment really has been dumbed down in recent decades in order to appeal to what is an even lower common denominator than before.

Whatever one thinks of these changes, this is one of the fastest demographic transformations of a nation in recorded human history, and it is the direct result of public policy.

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