rightwinger
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Which enemies are those who are developing "newer and more sophisticated weapons"?Actually Defense contractors don't love war. They love weapons development. That is the biggest expense to the government. Once a system is tested at government expense they can sell it to anyone. If you're in a war expense is a major factor, and cuts have to be made. New weapons have to take a back seat to sheer numbers.Not at all. Unless you wanna get wasted too you're not gonna use nuclear weapons. Any war where even one nuke gets used opens pandora's box to a full release (and not the pleasant happy kind.) So a ground operation to secure territory is all that's left. You could never take over the US for any length of time (geography working in our favor and making supply lines all but impossible,) but the attack gesture could result in concessions being given when it's over so you never do it again.
Defense contractors love wars. Doesn't matter what they're about, how successful they are, or how long they last. Longer the better. Wars make the contractors money. If defense spending gets cut, they need an enemy to justify ramping spending back up. No better boogeyman than the guys who just landed on the East Coast.
If they see defense spending being scaled back bit by bit over time, they might not resist it and even encourage it on the hope someone takes a shot at us. Once that happens, demands to be protected come and spending goes back up. Like drug dealers giving free samples knowing people will get hooked and spend lots more than the free sample cost the dealer.
Don't get money to develop new weapons systems if no one's depleting their existing supplies in wars.
Meanwhile our enemies are developing newer and more sophisticated weapons making ours obsolete. Yeah...brilliant![]()
Gee, the Chinese have rolled out a couple of stealth fighter planes (that look amazingly like OUR stealth planes).
Given a little longer, without the US working on better planes, the Chinese are balls-to-the-walls, trying to make their planes superior to our planes.
Imitationis the sincerest form of flattery
There is more to stealth technology than looks