As every Republican in the country looks the other way from the issues around the ego trip that is the military parade in Washington, they should start thinking about how every military item and unit on display has been made obsolete.
We need look no further than the Russian/Ukraine war where drones have been used in mass numbers by both sides in the conflict to inflict heavy damages to their opponents. Ukraine took out a good portion of the Russian bomber fleet with drones. Russian ships are afraid to get too close to Ukrainian waters lest they come under attack by drones. And Russia continues to pound Ukrainian civilian areas with thousands of drones.
So all of those Abrams tanks, Hum-vees, F-35s, and such are obsolete to being nearly useless. And despite 'inventing' the drone, it looks like the US is far behind the curve with its early reliance on huge Predator style drones while the rest of the world is using massed produced civilian sized drones to destroy heavy traditional military equipment. And we aren't talking big nations here. Little bitty Ukraine is turning them out in droves. Russia is too and buying hardware from Iran and North Korea.
Washington needs to get their head around the fact that Iran and North Korea may be ahead of us in effective drone production instead of laughing about failed battle ship launches...a ship that is nearly useless in modern warfare.
So my suggestion: when the parade ends, donate one piece of each US weapon of war to the Smithsonian and then regroup at the Pentagon and decide the future of drones as the new major weapon of war...and make a decision to be the world leader in that technology. That $45 million spent on the parade would have been a good down payment on the project.
Most 79 year old men with fetishes for old technology have train sets in their basement...instead the MAGA cult pampers this dementia patient with a needless parade that will display America's doddering arsenal.
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