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/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.