• Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    western militaries’ PR is the same - small forces, technical superiority, organization and logistics

    The usa army has 1.3 million active personnel. China has 2 million. Usa’s is not small by population % or absolute amount.

    So I’m going to take a guess and assume you mean Europe’s specifically, not a generalized “the west’s”

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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      18 hours ago

      No, I mean US military too, if you also look at budget to personnel ratio and the tasks it’s supposed to cover.

      But yes, US military is much less like the western movies PR and more like a normal military, compared to European ones (even France), just with such funding that one can be certain that most of that is going to perpetually feed various mafia-oligarch-deepstate freeloaders.

      I mean, “the west” includes Turkey, South Korea, and even Israel, so of course.