makes me laugh 
In coming fire. 
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Does Skynet ring any bells here, with this and AI…..just sayinAssault rifle-mounted robot dogs were spotted in China
The Chinese Armed Forces reportedly successfully integrated quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicles, known popularly as “robot dogs,” to improve the combat capability of its troops. A video taken from a Chinese state TV broadcast shows semi-autonomous robot dogs with assault rifles during military...defence-blog.com
Exactly what I was thinking!
Really all these graphics do is reinforce that if the United States of America falls the world is forked!As a percentage of their GDP many countries are pulling their weight, especially the Eastern European countries.
Foreign support to Ukraine: Evidence from a database of military, financial, and humanitarian aid
Since the full-scale invasion started, many Western leaders have pledged to ‘stand with Ukraine’. This column introduces the Ukraine Support Tracker, a comprehensive database of humanitarian, military, and financial aid, which reveals striking differences in the size and type of support promised...
Bilateral aid to Ukraine by country GDP 2024 | Statista
Estonia and Denmark had the highest ratio of bilateral support to Ukraine to donor GDP as of February2024. Poland ranked sixth by GDP share of aid to Ukraine.
Plus, most countries don't have the large amount of surplus military equipment in storage as the US does, and Ukraine is making the most from that equipment that would have gone to the scrapyard and/or declared surplus within the foreseeable future.
Ukraine Converts $21.9 Billion In U.S. Military Surplus Into Fearsome Force
Doubters want you to believe $21.9 billion in military aid is a lot, when, in fact, it's mostly cast-off gear that the U.S. was already sending to the scrapyard.
In other words, mostly countries who are former Soviet Bloc, are keenly aware of the threat and have absolutely no desire to ever be a part of that dumpster fire again.
No, it was Clinton who signed it in 2000. It was also Clinton who refused to pull the trigger on killing Bin Laden when we had the chance. It was also under Clinton that the World Trade Center was bombed, and due to Clinton's politicization between the FBI and CIA that allowed Bin Laden to carry out the 9/11 attacks due to their failure to communicate information between each other.Hard to blame this on Walmart it was George HW Bush that pushed for their “ Most Favored” trade nation status but I digress…
It is alarming; then pile on the untold number of Chinese Military age men coming through the southern border; keep in mind it takes a visa to leave China. Their build up and brazen acts on the world stage, Cuba, Taiwan, balloons, seeking to undermine US world reserve currency status, belt and road initiatives ,etc. Meanwhile we are falling short on recruiting goals by massive amounts and focused on a bottomless pit in Ukraine.
What is going on there has far less significance to our daily lives in the US than if China takes Taiwan. When that happens our way of life will be significantly more impacted. For a guy that talks a lot about paying a “ fair share” , how about Europe start paying their fair share for this Ukraine entanglement.
Salty tantrum thrown.
as well as the robot last week telling us..not to worry they like their creators
and we steamed a day and overnight at above full power on a CG class ship to get close enough to send a few tomahawks to ol saddam.. only to arrive on station and go silent from up on high. ..
