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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 43 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

China: "Wow they're a lot less tough than we thought"

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They lost how many soldiers in that?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how many US imperial troops died, but they did lose a good amount of aircraft:

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Ehh I'd argue that money was already lost down the black hole of defense spending.

Looking forward to seeing how they'll pay for the replacements

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So glad that American's voted for the "No more wars" president while hoping for a better cost of living.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The US is not a democracy, its a one-party capitalist empire, and even its controlled opposition wing wanted to go to war with Iran for a long time. The democrats under Biden also massively increased funding to Israel to help destroy palestine:

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Americans could have had socialized healthcare for what they've sent to Isreal to bomb poor brown people.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago

No they couldn't, because they'd literally start killing citizens before they'd allow that.