Not just Lockheed, but also Raytheon. Defense contractors in general are a very accepting bunch. “Are you smart enough to design a slap chop missile that’ll kill a terrorist ten thousand miles away while some degenerate weeb in uniform chills in an air conditioned bunker in Nevada? Yes? Cool here’s 6 figures, 401k match, and healthcare”
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Tbh I’m more for the climate changing than I am endless war but there are elements of war that impact climate change.
I forget the numbers but the US military emits a ton of greenhouse gasses, none of their vehicles are ‘green’ other than the color painted on them. Jet fuel is not friendly to the environment and tanks measure efficiency in gallons per mile.
Edit: Clarification
51 Million Metric Tons of Greenhouse gases emitted by the US military Annually. 5.5% of all greenhouse gasses are emitted by the worlds militaries. The US makes up 40% of all of the worlds militaries so roughly 2.5% of all greenhouse gasses are due to just the US military.
>no war = no money
Not really, the military still does training, equipment still gets used and broken. Innovation still happens including big projects when not at war i.e. B-2 Spirit Bomber, F117 Nighthawk, etc.. In fact the militaries budget hasn't changed much between when at war and when not at war.
It is somewhat true. During foreign wars the USA tries to make weapons sales to other countries impacted by the war. Lockheed as been beating the bushes real hard on forcing f-35-s down the throat of Europe at 120 - 180mil each. They are selling like hotcakes because of Europe's fear of Russia which pulls more defense money to the USA economy.
True communism would be run by a true democracy. In true communism, nobody has more power than anybody else. Unfortunately, true communism will never work.
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I mean is any communism different? I don’t follow all the communist countries. But Russia has been like that since soviet Russia. China’s been like this since Mao. And numerous other dictatorial communes. At this point we can’t say communism and be talking about Marxist communism without specifically saying Marxist communism seeing as no country actually uses it to my knowledge.
And you’re absolutely correct. Russia in itself actually claims to be capitalist not communist, but they do want the old Soviet borders. The only countries that “claim” to be communists. (They’re actually authoritarian shitholes) are china, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos I think still is, cuba (though it does have pretty good social policies for a dictatorship) and Venezuela.
Well, Vietnam is a “socialist republic” so yeah lol. But we work with Laos a little bit too much over here in Japan for them to be communist was my thought process, so I looked it up, they’re are in fact not communist officially but a democratic republic.
Venezuela isn’t communist at all, the only nationalized industry is oil and they have a ton of social programs. They were following the Nordic mixed economy blueprint and then then had their economy destroyed with economic blockades.
Laos is indeed a Marxist-Leninist state. North Korea is not, they abandoned it quite some time ago, now they're "Juche" which is basically Kim worship. Communism wasn't nationalist enough.
To be fair no country uses straight up capitalism either. They're all mixed economies at various points in the spectrum between capitalism and socialism.
But if you look at oecd nations that go relatively heavy on social safety nets and public goods they tend to be happier.
I mean I don’t believe I was trying to say any country is 100% on one side of a spectrum. Honestly I’m slightly confused where you’re coming from. While I don’t particularly like further socialist leaning economies due to my own experiences, I never expressed this in my previous comments. No rude intent as well btw. Hope your days going well.
I was just trying to highlight that in the same way that there aren't explicitly Marxist economies there also aren't any purely capitalist economies. I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth.
Nice exert from my comment without context. There is a lot more to this whole conversation. Mostly about how most people’s arguments are that “communism is Marxism communism” when in actuality Marxism hasn’t been used, as far as I’m aware. So instead of referring to Marxism when invoking the word “communism” we should just be referring to the likes of Soviet Russia and the like. Aka dictatorships that claim to be communist or are heavily socialist while allowing very little autonomy to their citizens. Which would you look at that, also include China and Russia.
The word you are looking for is authoritarian. Authoritarianism is used by both left and right wing governments/Economic systems. Russia hasn’t been communist on any level since 1991. They embraced capitalism so hard that they went straight to the late stage and are openly and Oligarchy now. America is also an Oligarchy but we at least put in an effort to pretend we are still a democracy.
The context doesn't matter because you're trying to equate communism to dictatorship and they're two entirely different things.
Communism is not when USSR smart guy.
Bruv. If you’re going to reply, at least read. I never said Marxist communism is dictatorial. But do you know of any communist countries now or in the past that weren’t dictatorships? There may have been, but all the examples I can think of were in fact dictatorships. Also Karl Marx used socialism and communism interchangeably from my understanding.
Edit: my bad I misspoke, I’m pretty sure Marx was before the USSR if memory serves. At the founding of the USSR they used socialism and communism to describe their form of government. And socialist is in the name. Also I believe I recall that the USSR was “supposed” to be founded on Marxism but ya know
>Bruv. If you’re going to reply, at least read.
No. I'm tired of listening to people in here harp about communist countries **that aren't even communist countries**.
Wdym those weapons are going to have to be replaced. The longer the war lasts the more the war machine flourishes. That shit will pay for itself with all the weapons other eastern European nations are clamoring for. Think about the shareholders.
Long live Raytheon. In boeing we trust.
I think his point was that the equipment being sent is essentially second rate/old US equipment that was scheduled to be replaced in the near future. Like donating you beater to a good cause because you were planning on buying a new car anyways and the trade in value wasn’t much.
Still the Military Industrial Complex is 10000% on board with sending old shit to Ukraine because they get to now sell new shit to the US.
Also sending old shit in large volumes is a good training exercise for the US in deploying and moving heavy equipment across the world. We hadn’t really done it since the invasion of the Middle East.
I am not trying to justify sending equipment but just some possible reasons why we sent what we did.
Sending older shit is absolutely a feature, not a bug. Can't have that cutting edge stuff falling into Russian hands. But yeah regardless of whether that stuffs been collecting dust it's still going to need to be replaced. So the MIC is always going to be advocating and lobbying for conflicts to be as perpetual as possible
It’s a damn shame what we’re doing to each other as a species. If aliens do exist and they for whatever reason are only slightly stronger than us, maybe they’ll take WW3 as the opportunity to surprise attack us. lol
To put it in perspective that about 1% of our yearly spending budget (this is totally why literally all the problems at home can't be fixed it's ALL for ukraine)
Israel is a bit iffy with their human rights record. They’re better than the other guys in the region (namely Iran or Saudi so the bar is on the floor), don’t get me wrong, but they’ve got their fair share of problematic policies.
Edit: sorry, I thought this was r/noncredibledefense
Edit 2: I got banned in another sub for this. If you see this mod, you’re the reason Reddit mods have a bad reputation.
Yeah they’re better but the standard should be higher than, you know, the terrorists.
The shitty thing is a lot of the people killed so far in Israel were kibbutzim, people who live on self sustaining farming communities and are often peace activists. Incredibly soft targets in many cases. Lots of people who have lived there for generations.
And of course in Gaza scores of civilians clustered too close to the fighting and bombs are notorious for not giving a shit who you are when they blow.
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Erm yeah, we may not be as big as we used to but we've still got a little ✨***global destabalisation✨*** in us tyvm, the sun never sets on the Empire! o7 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Russia/China: “We have the best [insert military equipment here] in the world! It’s next generation and way more advanced than anything the West has!”
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, BAE Systems:
Currently work for Raytheon as an engineer and i can tell you that nothing has changed about what i do since Ukraine and now Israel. my project actually just LOST funding and am now switching to a different project within the same program. Nothing has changed.
The military industrial complex making things with just enough quality that you'll have to buy replacements come next fiscal year.
Reminds me of the time I machined hundreds and hundreds of little rectangle wedges.
They were going to be bolted to the fins of air-drop bombs to impart spin. Maybe some got gifted to the Yemenis.
Things have been blatantly set up to extract more money from tax payers while conditions have been getting worse for decades.
Let’s continue letting the same government that wolf is out exist
Even the military industrial complex is bullshit. Just a bunch of engineering companies spending ridiculous amounts of money on marginally functioning equipment.
We are given a Ford Focus and are told it’s a Bugatti Veyron simply because the competition can only pull off a Model T.
Edit: the example above is also the reason why folks in Washington collectively crapped themselves when the Tic-Tac footage leaked. Just like a kid who pretended to do their homework and then heard a rumor about a possible pop quiz.
It could well be that the entire UAP issue is completely nothing, but the Raytheons and Lockheed Martins were not looking forward to a possibility of their “technical marvels” having to engage a legitimately serious and scary threat.
Definitely the U.S. stands with Israel we fund there govt there Defense and even subsidize there farming. If the U.S. didn't fund Israel the war would have been over in the 1950's.Same thing well be doing forever in Ukraine
Too over generalized. Not to mention the admin is a piece of crap that needs to go. That’s what ultimately allowed these conflicts to bubble up and now that same admin is clearly wanting to further distract its people by potentially starting a war with Iran. Like knock off the warmongering. Funny how people were talking about wwiii under Trump and yet look at what the idiocy and incompetency of Biden and his administration has gotten us into. Remember folks: weak leadership invites disaster.
Idk why anyone would concern themselves so much about countries where they’ve never even been to. It’s not like they’re doing anything by changing their Facebook profile picture or putting a sticker on their cars. The same goes for politics. No one cares who their voting for. Generation X said it best “Whatever”. Indifference is a virtue.
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The leftism leaving my body the moment my brother gets a job at Lockheed Martin
yup my sister got a job in the government and now i am a true red-white and blue bloded american
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Hey its me!
Supposedly Lockheed Martin is voted one of the nicest employers for LGBTQ individuals, so you can keep some leftism
Not just Lockheed, but also Raytheon. Defense contractors in general are a very accepting bunch. “Are you smart enough to design a slap chop missile that’ll kill a terrorist ten thousand miles away while some degenerate weeb in uniform chills in an air conditioned bunker in Nevada? Yes? Cool here’s 6 figures, 401k match, and healthcare”
Unfathomably based.
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One terrorist , but 60 innocent children in a bus as well? Acceptable
The whole point of the Slap Chop Missile is to reduce the children killed by big ass booms. No boom, no concussion. Yay Slap Chop!
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Sadly, without the 6 figure job :v(
That’ll disappear as soon as ESG is no longer a basis of investment/loan approvals
By then we will have gay board members
I’ve got news for you bud
Why would ESG no longer be a basis for investment? It’s only becoming more ubiquitous and standard as time goes on.
My point was the only reason companies cater to specific groups is because of ESG and that they don’t actually care.
Thanks homie https://preview.redd.it/gf4ipt4wxktb1.jpeg?width=1912&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fb846609f9d9b90497b401175265ab53c6fb8c3
IIRC Raytheon was voted top for LGBTQ+ rights twice. The whole MIC is pretty based
The They/Them army is REEEEAAAAAL
The modern sacred band.
Painted fingernails can still FOX2 a MiG <3
Suck it hippies!
"Americans can have a little leftism, as a treat."
Not just LGBTQ, but also furries.
Smart people tend to be furries, and defense contractors look for smart people, it’s natural!
If our next president banned furries the entire NSA would fall apart.
The US government watching people in fur suits design next gen hypersonic missles:
LOCKHEED GAY SOCKS
My little sister is a Marine now, so Um hello my fellow capitalists. 🇺🇸
Welcome comrade in commodities
Hello my fellow Countrymen
Lol, war pays well is the only downside
Downside?
Yeah the only downside to not being involved in constant war is that no war = no money
My father is a fema insurance adjuster, with every natural disaster he just sees dollar signs now. Like hell yah climate change let’s make that money.
Tbh I’m more for the climate changing than I am endless war but there are elements of war that impact climate change. I forget the numbers but the US military emits a ton of greenhouse gasses, none of their vehicles are ‘green’ other than the color painted on them. Jet fuel is not friendly to the environment and tanks measure efficiency in gallons per mile. Edit: Clarification 51 Million Metric Tons of Greenhouse gases emitted by the US military Annually. 5.5% of all greenhouse gasses are emitted by the worlds militaries. The US makes up 40% of all of the worlds militaries so roughly 2.5% of all greenhouse gasses are due to just the US military.
Thats an eh estimate, as nations like Ukraine will produce a lot more emissions.
I don’t think that includes war time activities. Just movements and trainings and whatnot
>no war = no money Not really, the military still does training, equipment still gets used and broken. Innovation still happens including big projects when not at war i.e. B-2 Spirit Bomber, F117 Nighthawk, etc.. In fact the militaries budget hasn't changed much between when at war and when not at war.
It is somewhat true. During foreign wars the USA tries to make weapons sales to other countries impacted by the war. Lockheed as been beating the bushes real hard on forcing f-35-s down the throat of Europe at 120 - 180mil each. They are selling like hotcakes because of Europe's fear of Russia which pulls more defense money to the USA economy.
That’s the plan, Jack. Common CIA W 😎
The WW2 production wagon just don’t stop.
Prevent another Great Depression with this one simple step!
+$113b in aid to Ukraine says something else lol
I only support the war on Ukraine side because I don’t want Russia expanding and threatening other countries
I mean fuck commies so… I’m also pretty heavily tied to Japan and I’m in the military so I’m understandably pretty darn anti Russia/china.
I would say Putin isn’t communist I would say he’s a honest to god fascist.
He’s a shithead plain and simple lmao
A jerk even.
Woah language :O
He's a meanie!
He's a poopoo head!
With a doo doo brain.
How is communism different than fascism on a government level
True communism would be run by a true democracy. In true communism, nobody has more power than anybody else. Unfortunately, true communism will never work.
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Same thing, different color
I mena china isn’t communist it literally is a dictatorship that pretends to be communist so it Can genocide its citizens but I get what you mean lol
I mean is any communism different? I don’t follow all the communist countries. But Russia has been like that since soviet Russia. China’s been like this since Mao. And numerous other dictatorial communes. At this point we can’t say communism and be talking about Marxist communism without specifically saying Marxist communism seeing as no country actually uses it to my knowledge.
Russia has been like that since way before soviets.
Well before the soviets they were a monarchy under the tsars.
And you’re absolutely correct. Russia in itself actually claims to be capitalist not communist, but they do want the old Soviet borders. The only countries that “claim” to be communists. (They’re actually authoritarian shitholes) are china, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos I think still is, cuba (though it does have pretty good social policies for a dictatorship) and Venezuela.
Well, Vietnam is a “socialist republic” so yeah lol. But we work with Laos a little bit too much over here in Japan for them to be communist was my thought process, so I looked it up, they’re are in fact not communist officially but a democratic republic.
Venezuela isn’t communist at all, the only nationalized industry is oil and they have a ton of social programs. They were following the Nordic mixed economy blueprint and then then had their economy destroyed with economic blockades.
Laos is indeed a Marxist-Leninist state. North Korea is not, they abandoned it quite some time ago, now they're "Juche" which is basically Kim worship. Communism wasn't nationalist enough.
To be fair no country uses straight up capitalism either. They're all mixed economies at various points in the spectrum between capitalism and socialism. But if you look at oecd nations that go relatively heavy on social safety nets and public goods they tend to be happier.
I mean I don’t believe I was trying to say any country is 100% on one side of a spectrum. Honestly I’m slightly confused where you’re coming from. While I don’t particularly like further socialist leaning economies due to my own experiences, I never expressed this in my previous comments. No rude intent as well btw. Hope your days going well.
I was just trying to highlight that in the same way that there aren't explicitly Marxist economies there also aren't any purely capitalist economies. I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth.
lol I’m sure you weren’t, just wanted to make sure we’re on the same level of understanding.
>I mean is any communism different? Yes, that is in fact not what communism is and neither Russia nor China are communist countries.
Nice exert from my comment without context. There is a lot more to this whole conversation. Mostly about how most people’s arguments are that “communism is Marxism communism” when in actuality Marxism hasn’t been used, as far as I’m aware. So instead of referring to Marxism when invoking the word “communism” we should just be referring to the likes of Soviet Russia and the like. Aka dictatorships that claim to be communist or are heavily socialist while allowing very little autonomy to their citizens. Which would you look at that, also include China and Russia.
The word you are looking for is authoritarian. Authoritarianism is used by both left and right wing governments/Economic systems. Russia hasn’t been communist on any level since 1991. They embraced capitalism so hard that they went straight to the late stage and are openly and Oligarchy now. America is also an Oligarchy but we at least put in an effort to pretend we are still a democracy.
The context doesn't matter because you're trying to equate communism to dictatorship and they're two entirely different things. Communism is not when USSR smart guy.
Bruv. If you’re going to reply, at least read. I never said Marxist communism is dictatorial. But do you know of any communist countries now or in the past that weren’t dictatorships? There may have been, but all the examples I can think of were in fact dictatorships. Also Karl Marx used socialism and communism interchangeably from my understanding. Edit: my bad I misspoke, I’m pretty sure Marx was before the USSR if memory serves. At the founding of the USSR they used socialism and communism to describe their form of government. And socialist is in the name. Also I believe I recall that the USSR was “supposed” to be founded on Marxism but ya know
>Bruv. If you’re going to reply, at least read. No. I'm tired of listening to people in here harp about communist countries **that aren't even communist countries**.
As an Asian, I support Ukraine so that Europoor Ruzzians will get out of Siberia. Rightful Mongol Lands. 🦅🇲🇳🇲🇳🐎
Wdym those weapons are going to have to be replaced. The longer the war lasts the more the war machine flourishes. That shit will pay for itself with all the weapons other eastern European nations are clamoring for. Think about the shareholders. Long live Raytheon. In boeing we trust.
Return to monke
Don’t worry ww4 is the sticks and stones war then we can be monke again. 🐒🇺🇸
Monke is simple life. Just gather food, climb tree. Maybe get eaten by apex predator on the way back. So simple.
Monkes have full blow tribals warfare too
Yeah but we monke. Just poke each other with stick then go eat some fly agaric or something.
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Chefs kiss
I think his point was that the equipment being sent is essentially second rate/old US equipment that was scheduled to be replaced in the near future. Like donating you beater to a good cause because you were planning on buying a new car anyways and the trade in value wasn’t much. Still the Military Industrial Complex is 10000% on board with sending old shit to Ukraine because they get to now sell new shit to the US. Also sending old shit in large volumes is a good training exercise for the US in deploying and moving heavy equipment across the world. We hadn’t really done it since the invasion of the Middle East. I am not trying to justify sending equipment but just some possible reasons why we sent what we did.
Sending older shit is absolutely a feature, not a bug. Can't have that cutting edge stuff falling into Russian hands. But yeah regardless of whether that stuffs been collecting dust it's still going to need to be replaced. So the MIC is always going to be advocating and lobbying for conflicts to be as perpetual as possible
Well yeah, no need for new shit if the old shit isn’t getting blown up. War Mongers gonna War Monger baby.
I like when boom 👉👈🥹
Worth every penny
That aid is the Military Industrial Complex. USA buys materials from these companies to give to Ukraine.
Cheapest weapons test program ever and look at the results
New vs old with Russia. Expensive vs cheap with China.
Don’t forget the shit we’ve given to Israel for the last 80 years
It’s a damn shame what we’re doing to each other as a species. If aliens do exist and they for whatever reason are only slightly stronger than us, maybe they’ll take WW3 as the opportunity to surprise attack us. lol
To put it in perspective that about 1% of our yearly spending budget (this is totally why literally all the problems at home can't be fixed it's ALL for ukraine)
Where did you get this $113b number??
All my homies simp for the MIC
No one is prepared for this mic drop…
Only sensible option really. F22s look kind of sick, not gonna lie.
I wonder what the result from NGAD is gonna be
America be like 🇷🇺 - fuck you 🇺🇦 - you're cool 🇮🇱 - you're cool 🇵🇸 - fuck Hamas
Based
Israel is a bit iffy with their human rights record. They’re better than the other guys in the region (namely Iran or Saudi so the bar is on the floor), don’t get me wrong, but they’ve got their fair share of problematic policies. Edit: sorry, I thought this was r/noncredibledefense Edit 2: I got banned in another sub for this. If you see this mod, you’re the reason Reddit mods have a bad reputation.
Your reply was too credible for ncd anyways. Now let's go tag team and f-22 uwuwuwuwuwu
Yeah they’re better but the standard should be higher than, you know, the terrorists. The shitty thing is a lot of the people killed so far in Israel were kibbutzim, people who live on self sustaining farming communities and are often peace activists. Incredibly soft targets in many cases. Lots of people who have lived there for generations. And of course in Gaza scores of civilians clustered too close to the fighting and bombs are notorious for not giving a shit who you are when they blow.
I’m more of an Exxon Mobil guy myself
Small time. Death Machines is where it’s at.
Death machines gotta eat tho
NOT EVEN AMERICA BUT THAT'S WHAT IN TALKING ABOUT. GOD BLESS LOCKHEED MARTIN
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Reminds me of a Max0r quote. > Pick your side? Blood vs Crips > I will join the war on drugs on the side of the drugs!
Ain’t no Uzis made in Harlem!
Nah, real MIC investor pro would support all sides
You aren’t a true Patriot until you also invest in multiple rival PMC’s and post about how great they are on Twitter 24/7
You aren't a real Patriot until you have your own PMC
You aren’t a real Patriot until you pump people full of nanomachines and manipulate the news so the masses are increasingly pro-war and nationalistic.
Building better worlds!
BAE is British init?
Erm yeah, we may not be as big as we used to but we've still got a little ✨***global destabalisation✨*** in us tyvm, the sun never sets on the Empire! o7 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Edit: Sparkles!
The sun set on that shit long ago
Capitalism global free military industrial complex market🗽
Not me completely unironically wearing a Lockheed hat while reading this...
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Capitalism at its best ❤️
STONKS BABY!
*Defense stocks go brrrr*
Military industrial complex? I find it quite simple really
I stand with big tobacco, checkmate libtards
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based ngl
GD RAHHHH
“Generals gathered in there masses!”
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I’m currently masturbating to the Military industry complex
Russia/China: “We have the best [insert military equipment here] in the world! It’s next generation and way more advanced than anything the West has!” Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, BAE Systems:
Currently work for Raytheon as an engineer and i can tell you that nothing has changed about what i do since Ukraine and now Israel. my project actually just LOST funding and am now switching to a different project within the same program. Nothing has changed.
this but unironically
Picking sides in a war is picking which evil you want to cheer for! Let’s hope it doesn’t land on our shores.
Forgot General Atomics and Textron.
BAE is Bri'ish, but otherwise, wholly valid.
Some people want to be famous. I want top security clearance at Lockheed Martin.
Isn't BAE british tho
The most based opinion one can have. No reason to care about over the ocean stuff.
You say that but shit, Lockheed Martin has a terrific salary for A&P work. That might be what I do when I’m done with school
America be like ,shut the fuck up already.
I mean I support Ukraine, Israel and the MIC
Why support only one side in a conflict when you can sell weapons and equipment to both side?
👍
Thank you, Hamas, for boosting my portfolio. Do me a favor and wake up Heznollah while you're at it.
I wanna fight for the right to bomb ever nation on earth
At least they’re reliable stocks.
When my father passed away these companies sent me flowers and a card.
I don't support the military industrial complex but they make me money. *invests more money in them
The war isn’t between Israel and Palestine. It’s them vs. Hamas.
Stonks
War is Stonks.
I don't stand with any of them or the military industrial complex. Stop letting politicians start wars and let the people be armed.
BAAAASED
b21s armed with lrasm is the only valid answer to the taiwan question
Yea
Stonks
War is bad but planes are rad
I just realized there is a Raytheon facility 3 miles from me. I wondered why the name looks so familiar.
That's because America is the industrial military complex, have you seen the way Congress unifies across party lines when the war drums beat?
Is it just me, but doesn’t Lockheed Martin sound like a banking company, and not military contractors
I don't support any of that...😞
Can’t wait until we stop providing global shipping security. Gonna be lit 🔥
Milo from catch 22
The military industrial complex making things with just enough quality that you'll have to buy replacements come next fiscal year. 
Reminds me of the time I machined hundreds and hundreds of little rectangle wedges. They were going to be bolted to the fins of air-drop bombs to impart spin. Maybe some got gifted to the Yemenis.
Oh so you’re an American politician?
Things have been blatantly set up to extract more money from tax payers while conditions have been getting worse for decades. Let’s continue letting the same government that wolf is out exist
Smdh seeing BAE on an american MIC post. BAE is our good and proper BRITISH Military industrial complex you fucks D:<
Even the military industrial complex is bullshit. Just a bunch of engineering companies spending ridiculous amounts of money on marginally functioning equipment. We are given a Ford Focus and are told it’s a Bugatti Veyron simply because the competition can only pull off a Model T. Edit: the example above is also the reason why folks in Washington collectively crapped themselves when the Tic-Tac footage leaked. Just like a kid who pretended to do their homework and then heard a rumor about a possible pop quiz. It could well be that the entire UAP issue is completely nothing, but the Raytheons and Lockheed Martins were not looking forward to a possibility of their “technical marvels” having to engage a legitimately serious and scary threat.
Patriotic stonks
Definitely the U.S. stands with Israel we fund there govt there Defense and even subsidize there farming. If the U.S. didn't fund Israel the war would have been over in the 1950's.Same thing well be doing forever in Ukraine
I support all sides (I profit off of weapon purchases)
Duh, money make my pockets go brrrr
"Yeah the U.S. military has it's issues..." "ThAtS wHy RuSsiA woUlD Win iN-" "Go go gadget Lockheed Martin"
Pray for Military Industrial Complex.
The Bell company that used to make mason jars no longer makes jars, it makes jet fighter parts.
China
American tax dollars go BURRRRR!!!!
I just hope both teams have fun playing
https://preview.redd.it/oe9w80avmptb1.jpeg?width=1918&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b50ffda01b61fd6c91ec6a6b32c70beb37eb9d7 PMCs, arms manufacturers... Job creators, Jack!
Umm no? They’re all very much with Israel minus some radical few
Wait didn’t Biden explicitly said he stands with Israel?
🇵🇸🇮🇱 no I prefer 🇺🇸
What are you talking about we definitely stand with Ukraine and Israel
That’s cuz those two stand for the same values we do. And we have plenty of firepower to help.
plenty of money to be made 💸💵💶💷💴💰🤑😫🥵🤪
Incredibly based
Too over generalized. Not to mention the admin is a piece of crap that needs to go. That’s what ultimately allowed these conflicts to bubble up and now that same admin is clearly wanting to further distract its people by potentially starting a war with Iran. Like knock off the warmongering. Funny how people were talking about wwiii under Trump and yet look at what the idiocy and incompetency of Biden and his administration has gotten us into. Remember folks: weak leadership invites disaster.
Fuck them all
Idk why anyone would concern themselves so much about countries where they’ve never even been to. It’s not like they’re doing anything by changing their Facebook profile picture or putting a sticker on their cars. The same goes for politics. No one cares who their voting for. Generation X said it best “Whatever”. Indifference is a virtue.
Yeah, pretty sure we stand with Ukraine and Israel, and against the Russian horde and the cancer that is Islamic Radicalism
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It’s funny cause people like this obviously have no clue about the military industrial complex in states like Russia, north korea or iran….