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Should be a wild four years.

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Now look up how much it takes to send an infantry brigade to NTC. (It's about 40 million) Don't even look up tankers or anything more equipment heavy.

$55 million when talking about something like an aircraft carrier is fucking nothing.

What NTC, WINTEX, REFORGER burns would make you melt down.

REFORGER 88 for example cost over $2 billion in 1988 dollars for a 60 fun time. (Of course, it was fucking REFORGER)

Seen 2nd Armor hoover up money like nobody's business just going to NTC, not to mention what it cost to field a tanker unit from 1st Armor to Iraq for a year. $30 million for an NTC rotation and $1.1 billion for 6 months in Iraq.

So $55 million is nothing.
Didn't we spend some $4 trillion mostly driving humvees around the ME for a decade?
 
Didn't we spend some $4 trillion mostly driving humvees around the ME for a decade?
One estimate says it was $8 trillion.

As a reminder the government's habit of being bad with money isn't new (especially USAID), here are some examples of the dumb things that contributed to the total costs of the great American Middle East sandbox adventure:
The Tarakhil power plant was commissioned in 2007 as a backup generator for the capital, in case electricity supply from Uzbekistan was compromised.

A vast, modern structure, it ran on diesel-fueled turbines, supplied by a brand-name engineering giant. There was one catch: Afghanistan had scant diesel supply of its own and had to ship the fuel in by truck – making the plant too expensive to run.

The facility itself cost $335 million to build, and had an estimated annual fuel cost of $245 million. The most recent SIGAR assessment said at best it was used at just 2.2% capacity, as the Afghan government could not afford the fuel. USAID declined to comment.
In 2010, the Marines were surging troop numbers in Helmand, the deadliest part of Afghanistan. A command and control center on the main base of Camp Leatherneck was ordained as part of the effort, although Sopko recalled the base commander and two other marine generals said it was not needed as it would not be completed fast enough.

Sopko said the thought of returning the funds allocated to Congress was “was so abhorrent to the contracting command, it was built anyway. The facility was never occupied, Camp Leatherneck was turned over to the Afghans, who abandoned it.”

It cost $36 million, was never used, and seems to have been later stripped by the Afghans, who also never appeared to use it.

Major Robert Lodewick, a DoD spokesman, said in a statement the SIGAR report contained “factual errors,” objected to how it implied “malfeasance” by some officers, and said the $36 million figure included ancillary costs like roads to the HQ.
An extensive ring road around Afghanistan was funded by multiple grants and donors, totaling billions during the course of the war. Towards the end of the project, a 233-kilometer section in the North, between the towns of Qeysar and Laman, led to $249 million being handed out to contractors, but only 15% of the road being built, a SIGAR audit reported.

Between March 2014 and September 2017, there was no construction on this section, and what had been built deteriorated, the report concluded. USAID declined to comment.
An extensive hotel and apartment complex was commissioned next to the US Embassy in Kabul, for which the US government provided $85 million in loans.

In 2016, SIGAR concluded “the $85 million in loans is gone, the buildings were never completed and are uninhabitable, and the U.S. Embassy is now forced to provide security for the site at additional cost to U.S. taxpayers.”

The audit concluded the contractor made unrealistic promises to secure the loans, and that the branch of the US government who oversaw the project never visited the site, and neither did the company they later hired to oversee the project. A State department spokesperson said they did not manage the construction and it was “a private endeavor.”
 
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See this guy? his name is Leon Black and he the most recent person who has damning info tying him to awful crimes in relation to jeffery Epstein

Guess what he wants to do?

Photograph your kids

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Rabbit hole just keeps going deeper
I read it fast and thought you said "Rabbi Hole just keeps going deeper" although that might be the same thing.


Think about it from the opposite perspective. Would you, as a member of an intergalactic society of different alien species, want to willingly admit having contact and an ongoing relationship with idiots like us? :story:
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God, I need to watch Remo Williams again.
One of my favorite movies. I actually just bought the 35th anniversary soundtrack on CD. It still sounds amazing. When Fred Ward died, I actually felt weight on my chest knowing there will now never be an official sequel. I kept hoping that as long as he was still alive, there was a chance.
 
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And now Democrats want to turn against the idea of importing infinity shitskins into the country, something they have benefited from for years.

I hope none of you are buying this bullshit.
 
And now Democrats want to turn against the idea of importing infinity shitskins into the country, something they have benefited from for years.
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I hope none of you are buying this bullshit.
Nigga, you suck at blending in. Can you go back to posting about how this clip makes Hillary look good and how she's poised to run again and win in 2028 and set up Left Wing Death Squads to end the right for 10 gorillion years?
 
Now look up how much it takes to send an infantry brigade to NTC. (It's about 40 million) Don't even look up tankers or anything more equipment heavy.

$55 million when talking about something like an aircraft carrier is fucking nothing.

What NTC, WINTEX, REFORGER burns would make you melt down.

REFORGER 88 for example cost over $2 billion in 1988 dollars for a 60 fun time. (Of course, it was fucking REFORGER)

Seen 2nd Armor hoover up money like nobody's business just going to NTC, not to mention what it cost to field a tanker unit from 1st Armor to Iraq for a year. $30 million for an NTC rotation and $1.1 billion for 6 months in Iraq.

So $55 million is nothing.
Not to mention that OK, it's $55M to deploy it, but what does that mean? How much does it cost the rest of the time when it's just sailing around the world or driving around in circles jerking off in the Atlantic?

Probably about the same. It's not like they park it the rest of the time and the sailors sit home waiting to go to places like Iran.
 
Nigga, you suck at blending in. Can you go back to posting about how this clip makes Hillary look good and how she's poised to run again and win in 2028 and set up Left Wing Death Squads to end the right for 10 gorillion years?
He should do this shit in the TES thread and frame it as "Even the Democrats are adapting Trump's policies, America is doomed" then get like a ton of upvoots.
 
Yeah.. you think a species who can travel 40 light years and survive it to attack us would be stunned by gunpowder weaponry.
This was a plot point in Stargate SG-1, where little self replicating robots that ate everything to replicate were succeptible to human P90s because those were so low tech
 
Not to mention that OK, it's $55M to deploy it, but what does that mean? How much does it cost the rest of the time when it's just sailing around the world or driving around in circles jerking off in the Atlantic?

Probably about the same. It's not like they park it the rest of the time and the sailors sit home waiting to go to places like Iran.
Stop putting presidents on dollars and put different types of USN aircraft carriers instead. It's more honest about how the US backs it's money. Hell we can even add other military iconography to the backdrop and as part of anti-fraud measures. Who needs precious metals when you have the most powerful military in history?

Oh and we can put snatching Maduro on it as well. Lol lmao.
 
I am using this as my shout into the void because nobody listens when I shout at them irl. Definitely a self dox but I don't care.
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Every year the rust belt holds a local parade, I appreciate local traditions and customs, but it evolved into an excuse to get drunk for a weekend, buy prostitutes, and throw actual garbage everywhere, heaps of it.
There will be some incidental littering in parades, but a decade ago during St. Patrick's day parades or thanksgiving parades, not once in my life have I seen a substantial amount of garbage, or any garbage even, you usually saw a cup and you would pick it up and toss it.
But here people just toss actual garbage on the street because the "city will clean it up"
This is the shit I see Indians use to cope with their garbage, "the state will clean it up" as they dump their garbage somewhere publicly.
Forget "import the world become the third world", we're already a third world country living in a low trust society.
I honestly think littering should be a jailable crime, the type of person to chug a bottle of plastic then toss it out their window or on the ground is the same type of person who will never contribute to society in a meaningful way, it is the cart litmus test taken to the extreme.

With the exception of rich pedophiles, every common man will have to face the consequences of their actions, we either face suffering up front or pay later with interest. We as a society have racked up enough consequential debt that the interest when we finally face it will lead to the deaths of millions.
Oh, no, I agree. If you can carry a purse or a backpack, you can carry your motherfucking trash with you (until you find a trash can, which is probably at the next convenience store or corner). Don’t be nigger swine.
 
hillary clinton is weird because she'll waffle on things like immigration but at the same time she has no problem bombing half the world.
 
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