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    Notice the emphasis on many missles, bombs etc firing and all the destruction in the Chinese video? Alarming and seriously aggressive. No words for the US vid. This is scary stuff indeed.
    This cartoon seem deliberately trite and effete.

    Do you think the USA may be applying at least in part some of Sun Tzu's Art of War philosophy to "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak".

    For all it's well-publicized ongoing problems I would still not bet against the USA.
    It's the high tech and their large nuclear arsenal that saves them. It it was about more conventional warfare and combat I would not bet on them anymore.

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    Newer members (or those who missed this thread!!) have to see this. It was posted a couple of months before Russia's Special Military Operation started in Ukraine.

    My comment in post #15:
    • China: We value impersonal total commitment to the giant military machine.
    • Russia: We value individual qualities of strength, focus and determination.
    • USA: ???
    China's video comes first, then Russia's, and then the US comes last. ('Comes last' may be appropriate. )

    Last edited by Bill Ryan; 27th May 2023 at 12:59.

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    No wonder US Military recruitment levels are the lowest in history.... OMG, we are doomed.


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    Newer members (or those who missed this thread!!) have to see this. It was posted a couple of months before Russia's Special Military Operation started in Ukraine.

    My comment in post #15:
    • China: We value impersonal total commitment to the giant military machine.
    • Russia: We value individual qualities of strength, focus and determination.
    • USA: ???
    China's video comes first, then Russia's, and then the US comes last. ('Comes last' may be appropriate. )

    Happiness comes from within, nowhere else.

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    Text:

    Able to hold a scalpel and jump a parachute, the airborne medical team is both professional and handsome.

    https://twitter.com/mtxstong10/statu...39125867139073


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    No wonder US Military recruitment levels are the lowest in history.... OMG, we are doomed.


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    Newer members (or those who missed this thread!!) have to see this. It was posted a couple of months before Russia's Special Military Operation started in Ukraine.

    My comment in post #15:
    • China: We value impersonal total commitment to the giant military machine.
    • Russia: We value individual qualities of strength, focus and determination.
    • USA: ???
    China's video comes first, then Russia's, and then the US comes last. ('Comes last' may be appropriate. )

    It is interesting to these these juxtaposed. Aside from different national ideals, there is a gulf of functionality between the US and the others - the US video is a symptom of a society in which all major social institutions are Not Even Trying to perform their designated social functions - and instead understand-themselves merely sub-offices of a single bureaucratic-media-complex (the senior managers of whom move about within The System, from 'function' to 'function' because - from their POV - it is all just 'management').

    This is, of itself, totalitarian evil; but the situation is not stable, and once established sub-systems compete against each other for the inevitably-shrinking (because the System is indifferent to function, hence dysfunctional) pot of resources, hierarchical power, status etc.

    Then 'success' becomes intrinsically parasitic and the winners are the most successful parasites upon the System; and the System consumes itself from within.

    Escape from this fate comes only from those whose values are outside of the System itself - such that the System is subordinated to pursuing these non-system goals. Such external goals have traditionally been religious. But nowadays, in The West, such external (System-directing) goals are instead actually subversive, destructive and inverted; therefore hastening the System collapse.

    In sum - the System is collapsing from within, hastened by external pressures.
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    Default Re: Military recruitment videos for China, Russia... and the US

    This might be more of a tribute to the Chinese military but here goes,

    https://twitter.com/zhang_heqing/sta...35286604906497


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    Here's the current Russian recruitment video, which has been aired on Russian TV channels since May.


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    ... and watch this, and despair.

    Russian Army Ad Makes Woke US Army Ad Look Like a Joke for Kids


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    Got to love R. Lee Ermy, who this cartoon was based on. A real Gunnery Sergeant, not merely an actor, who served in Vietnam. Man was a Legend.

    Here's the original, from the Kubrick classic Full Metal Jacket. This is what the military used to look like.

    Extreme (but hilarious) adult language warning...

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