America is no longer the #1 military in the world, and they’re not even #2. They're third, at best, behind China and Russia. America still spends the most money, but that’s just a measure of corruption, not capacity. When it comes to putting their money where their mouth is, America has been losing wars for decades, it’s time to call it. They’re losers.

Today, China can beat them without fighting and Russia can beat them fighting. Hell, Palestine has more fight in them, and Yemen has more balls. The American military today is only good for murdering children and blowing up its own allies. America is not a superpower anymore. They're superfluous, supercilious, and superseded by better people.

#3 - USA

People underestimate how old the US military is. The weapons they hyped up in Ukraine—F-16s, Abrams tanks, HIMARs—are 1970s, 80s, and 90s technology, respectively. Ukraine was a going out of business sale for the military industrial complex, unloading old stock at ludicrous markups. The whole thing was a fraud, with the weapons geolocked so the Ukrainians couldn't move forwards even if it was possible. They were set up to lose, to make money.

In the same way, the American weapons they're abusing in 'Israel' are also old stock targeted at young people. Nimitz Class Carriers, F-16s, JDAMs, THAAD batteries, and F-35s are 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s era tech, great for bombing refugee camps but useless against anyone with air defenses and hypersonics. These are just luxury terrorism products, used for an increasingly lurid terror campaign.

China is supposed to be America's ‘pacing’ threat, but America needs to get a pacemaker and sit down. Their attack plans (over Taiwan) depend on LRASM missiles that run out in days and then on JASSM-ERs repurposed to hit ships, which is not their purpose. America's plan is to do a World War II reboot against Chinese technology that's science fiction to them. And they want to do this after getting their ass beat by Yemen. It's history repeating as farce.

The US Navy just lost to men without a Navy or Air Force at all, just sophisticated missiles and balls. Three F-18s ‘fell off boats’, aircraft carriers mysteriously ‘ran into something’ and the USS Truman is so wrecked it has to complete a “multi-year midlife refueling and complex overhaul.” As you can see from my scare quotes, they're running scared, from a brave and ingenious nation that's barely industrialized.

American politicians talking about attacking China after this cannot be serious. America would need China's help to attack China, they depend on China for 40% of semiconductors and 100% of certain rare earths. They'd be attacking their own supply lines, and even in their most positive wargames, lose almost all of their Pacific Fleet and up to 40% of their operational Air Force within a month. What are we even talking about? I'd say talk is cheap, but America can spend a million dollars per missiles, which take years to deliver. America's war talk is expensive and increasingly out of stock.

This is a military that's no good against any peer military, and which also loses to Toyota Hiluxes given enough patience. In this context, China and Russia aren't peers at all. They're superior.

#2 - Russia

The number two military in the world is now Russia. Andrei Martyanov has been saying this for a while,. Russia is a generation ahead in vital technology (like missiles), has the productive capacity to out-generate all of NATO, and now a generation of Russians has hard-fought experience. This makes Russia stronger than American and second only to China.

Russia produces every type of weapons system (nukes, submarines, missile defense, guns) in-house. They also have weapons classes the West does not have—like hypersonic missiles, fiber-optic drones—and is able to mass produce them under fire and sanctions. Russia is able to outproduce the whole White Empire (NATO) in everything, from basic artillery to drones to missiles. Russia has also been learning and evolving throughout the Ukraine War, while America has just been dumping old stock and recycling old strategy. Ukraine itself was actually much more innovative than anyone in NATO, and should have been training them. Americans don't even know WTF drone warfare is. “We are so far behind,” Lt. Gen. Joseph Ryan said, understating things.

Americans have confused Russia's kindness for weakness. Russia has painstakingly minimized civilian casualties in Ukraine, at great cost of its own men, while America has just firebombed civilians since World War II. The USSR did most of the fighting in World War II while America took the spoils and then spoiled independence movements all over the rest of the world. They believed their own propaganda and simply didn't see the Russians coming anymore than Hitler did. Now they meet a similar fate, via their alliance with neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Reincarnated Russia has again beaten the strongest army in Europe (Ukraine) and gotten stronger for it. Even if America directly intervened, they would lose. Americans are used to fighting people without air defenses or peer offense and Russia is actually superior in both.

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Still, the #1 military in the world is now China. This is untested because China has never started a war, but the burden of proof is on anyone who says otherwise. China is the undisputed industrial superpower, why wouldn't they be the military industrial superpower also?

China also produces every type of weapons system in-house, but even more than Russia. They control the supply chain all the way down to the ground (rare earths). They make their own comms, their own AI, and it's all completely integrated. China has weapons America doesn't have—hypersonics, drone swarm carriers, amphibious tanks, ground-effect drones (ocean skimmers and swimmers)—and weapons we don't even know about. China is also able to outproduce everyone on earth, across almost every category. Certain missiles like the dual-pulse PL-15 have fully automated production lines that can run 24/7. This is science fiction shit while America is rebooting Top Gun with a 60-year-old Tom Cruise. America is not the top gun anymore, this is only not acknowledged because China never shoots.

But again, don't confuse China's mildness with weakness. We've seen a fraction of their technology in action over Kashmir, and India's Westernized weaponry was not ready for that smoke. In a battle over Taiwan, America would have no hope, as their own wargamers know. And even those wargames completely disregard hypersonics and drones, ie the next generation of warfare that China has grown up in, compared to America living in their made-up memories of long ago. This is a new era of warfare and America no longer leads in it, they're not even playing the same ballgame anymore.

Conclusion

America's military today is only good for terrorizing civilians, but even there, people's armies beat them. America has lost or drawn every war since WWII (which they didn't win either) but they cultivated a reputation for devastation by picking on poor people. But now other people have come up, while America's been resting on its laurels. Now its military has depreciated to dust and it's taking serious losses that it will not recover from. They can kill children in Palestine, but they cannot kill the future. Both the proxy loss in Ukraine and the personal loss to Yemen are historical losses, only covered up by the fact that these losers are still writing the history. But not for long. It's a brave new world and these cowards are not first anymore, nor even second. America's military is a distant historical turd, and spiralling hopelessly.