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Tell me Germany was involved somehow

the better question is, who cares?

You're right in the sense that 9/11 did awaken the American public, particularly its younger generation. The conspiracy-posting and populist politics of the time were invigorating and in fact, in comparison to the pessimistic, defeatist atmosphere of the Obama years it was far better for the Left.

This guy gets it right

As for Holla Forums I'm just not seeing it, these things happened because globalism contained the seeds of its own disintegration; not because frog posters on an image board. "Left" globalism is cancer tho and people need to stop trusting these soc dems that want to expand NATO in exchange for political horse trading to get more liberal benefits.

holy shit

she became a politician in the 90s and shes FASH (srs).

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In such a case the solution is obvious: kill more of the enemy then they can kill you. Thus we have an arms race and huge investments in aircraft that can survive missile spam better than static ground silos.

That wouldn't happen because porky's private railroad police force and 50 different state highway patrols would cockblock them by shutting down STRACNET and STRAHNET routes. Again, porky doesn't need the Army and never did. It's there as a backup, a plan D for when all their other plans fail. Even if by some magic the Army could hold everything down, within hours the AF would just bomb everything and reestablish control using USMC units.

Which brings up a reoccuring theme: the US government's command-and-control resides within the AF. Control that, and you control America. So despite our (days) long argument over this I will concede that there is one branch (the AF) that could successfully coup the national government, at least for a time.

There is no historical precedent for this because there is no historical precedent for a nation having an air force as huge as America does. Consider that the USAF has the ability to assassinate individual targets via drones, engage in conventional carpet bombing, blow up submarines, drop nuclear weapons, shoot down satellites and even kidnap people through their special operations teams. Over the course of human history has there never been something quite as powerful as this, except the modern US Navy.

12+ years for such a massive procurement is normal, considering that trainers have to be trained and the entire back catalog built up to support it. And if you think this is bad, just wait until the US government moves to replace the C-5 and C-130, that will be a shitshow like no other.

It can however it can only do so without weapons or much fuel in the tanks, also it can only do it on carriers and runways as otherwise the jet blast will destroy helipads. For all the issues with this it is still a direct improvement and dovetails nicely into a full VTOL jet in a few decades.

This doesn't invalidate the corruption arguments though, since Lockmart still made an incredible amount of money from this. Whether or not this is a good use of taxpayer money in the first place is the real discussion.

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