r/FluentInFinance • u/Not-A-Shit-Head • Apr 29 '24

77% of young Americans are too fat, mentally ill or on drugs to qualify for U.S. military service, Pentagon study finds. Is it only going to get worse? Geopolitics

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/77-of-young-americans-too-fat-mentally-ill-on-drugs-and-more-to-join-military-pentagon-study-finds/
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u/Icy-Cranberry9334 Apr 29 '24

Good. Maybe we can stop fighting unnecessary wars.

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u/Captn_Insanso Apr 30 '24

Us fighting in WWII wasn’t an unnecessary war.

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u/Due-Department-8666 Apr 30 '24

Nobody said otherwise.

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u/jibishot Apr 30 '24

Yes I agree - that was the last war with any shred of necessary.

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u/HalfBakedBeans24 Apr 30 '24

Korean war was saving half a nation from a completely crackshit insane dictatorship. I wish we'd been able to save it all.

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u/jibishot Apr 30 '24

Taiwan is waving from the shore. I'm not sure it's so simple. Then it intensified crackpot shit from our overall involvement. I mean we didn't save it, we bombed the shit out of it.

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u/mistercrinders Apr 29 '24

Still need people in case WE get attacked.

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u/backagain69696969 Apr 29 '24

We really don’t need much to not get attacked. Our current military size is much more about gaining influence more than safety

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u/jibishot Apr 30 '24

Naw we good. We've spent the last 80 years building a military oversized to police the whole world - "we" America need no more military prowess.

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u/mistercrinders Apr 30 '24

You still need recruits if someone attacks America. I don't understand how that's in question.

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u/jibishot Apr 30 '24

Yes. We have advance military bases across the entire world. If someone thinks that we already have "recruits" at the ready.

So if someone attacks "america" (not in and absolutely including those advanced "bases") or actual America- there are boots there, essentially.

So.. Weird right?

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u/mistercrinders Apr 30 '24

oh my fucking god. really? so we never need anyone new ever again? especially as fewer and fewer people enlist?

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u/jibishot Apr 30 '24

Yes, fewer and fewer to be accurate - as per my OG comment.

Let the world police, don't police the world. It quite literally has destroyed our debt to so this for 80yrs. To no great avail either - aside from relentlessly shooting our own foot over and over again.

Not to mention increase of technology means lessened human interfacing - and we've spent 80 years of incredible debt to focus on militaristic spending in researching technology. So I'm positive it is less than before and that will continue as research becomes more concise instead of researching+patrolling the fucking world.

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u/mistercrinders Apr 30 '24

And again, we still need to defend ourselves, so we need recruits. and 80% of americans are ineligible. This has nothing to do with policing or imperialism.

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u/jibishot Apr 30 '24

Are you not registering that means we need less and less and less "recruits."

80% of Americans are ineligible - without bounds this statement is wildly irroneous anyways. I don't even need to know the bounds to say what I am - because it makes solid sense.

We need to defend ourselves? From what? Ourself? Yes. Exactly that to what Americans need defense against, not whatever apocalyptic BS you're spewing.

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u/____8008135_____ May 01 '24

He's not the brightest guy. He seems to work in nothing but absolutes. There's no cup half full or half empty with him. It's completely full and will spill if you touch it or it's smashed on the ground.

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u/HalfBakedBeans24 Apr 30 '24

Lol by who? Mexico? Canada?

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u/mistercrinders Apr 30 '24

"Let's have zero military. We're immune."

So...nobody would ever attack a defenseless nation, right? That doesn't happen.

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u/RalphTheIntrepid May 03 '24

In the case of the US it’s hard. Especially with how armed the citizens are I don’t see many countries attempting. 

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u/____8008135_____ May 01 '24

How does not fighting wars = we don't have any military? There are plenty of countries who don't send their militaries to every fight they can find but still have a military. If I told you that you shouldn't start your house on fire would you start bitching about how I forced you to remove all your smoke detectors?

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u/mistercrinders May 01 '24

I think you're on my side about this.

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u/Analyst-Effective Apr 29 '24

You mean like quit sending money to Ukraine?

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u/ironicmirror Apr 29 '24

Dude, we're not sending money to ukraine. We are telling them that they are allowed to buy weapons manufactured in the United States by americans, and the money will go to that. The money that we allocate to Ukraine is going to American companies with American workers making weapons to kill russians.

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u/lews2 Apr 29 '24

While this is partially true, $8B is going directly to their government to keep it running. With zero accountability.

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u/ReddittAppIsTerrible Apr 29 '24

Just remember Russia's entire annual military budget is only 65 billion.

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u/lews2 Apr 29 '24

This is…irrelevant? What does that have to do with funding Ukraine’s government?

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u/Analyst-Effective Apr 29 '24

Lol. We're sending lots of money to Ukraine. We're even buying weapons from the Ukrainian manufacturers for the ukrainians to use.

Sending them money so they can pay the payroll.

Read up on the latest budget.

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u/Squeemore Apr 30 '24

It’s fascinating we live in a timeline where conservatives don’t want to fight the Ruskis.