Well. That was depressing.

Add a dash of climate change with a twist of wildfire and call it an apocalypse.

This is literally how the US budgets its defense spending. How many of x do we need to fight China and Russia at the same time at their front door.

Edit: I should probably say equipment reserves (planes and shit) because there's a lot of dark money shit in there.

Articles like this are just prepper wanking oil.

The US is not duking it out with any of these countries. China is too busy making all the world's plastic shit, and Russia's only weapon is the ghost of Cold War past.

US needs more ways to justify their obscene military spending in lieu of things that actually benefit American citizens

So, enough for a war with China.

What is Russia going to do? All of their best military units are already dead both in terms of hardware and personnel.

The Russians have already gone up against Western hardware and lost so we've essentially had a preview of the war except no Western forces have been engaged in that war. So apparently Russia is going to attack an enemy who is at full fighting strength when they themselves are severely depleted and are actually at this very moment relying on drafting.

America is more than ready, considering how much we spend on the military. This article is a few years old, and definitely sensationalist, but is still an interesting read-

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/how-long-the-us-military-would-last-against-the-rest-of-the-world/

And on top of that, the US Army just started deploying robotic troop carriers, and is finishing up remote combat vehicles for the front lines so that first contact isn't with soldiers. Yes, we're going to have killer robots on the front line. And soon.

Alternatively, US could stop playing world police and start fixing its many domestic problems.

Lol, America spends enough to take on just about the whole world

Ehh, instead work with the EU & UK and offer their logistics network so they can handle Ukraine, secretly provide Taiwan nuclear warheads & start a Cuban missile crisis 2 & force a real conversation.

Pacific too risky? Expand A2AD capabilities to Asian allies en masse, it's gonna all be defensive wars after all

We (Americans) should not basically have to pay for their defense

Anyone trying to invade the US has to understand that besides the military and law enforcement, there are 330 million people with 400 million guns.

Good luck!