T0mohalkz..
Look. people misunderstand weapn systems. Most of the weps we have are actually pretty useless, because the logistical support is actually so expensive, that they're unsustainable for any meaningful duration. We're talking weeks.
This is why in xtended wurz, it pretty much comes down to just those artillery rounds.
It's like casting your big mana moves, but you don't have a bag with mana potions. After wards, you've just got the staff's default fireball, and that's pretty much it.
In the games, you've got healers, stat boosts, etc that can charge you up. That's not the case in the real world. You pretty much have to do it mostly alone.
Committing more resources to an un-winnable situation, they're clearly not going to do it.
You can't win, if you don't escalate, if you escalate, you can't win. That's the Nvkclr dome. and Every country (that matters) already has it.
This is why further military spending, is mostly useless. the WAR, is actually fought across multiple domains, primarily the manufacturing base. And we've refused to invest in that, and we've refused to make the hard choices.
There's no good outcome to those hard choices though.
For example, We're in a situation where, the leadership invests 1000x in surveillance vs public utility. So, instead of figuring out WHY people are coughing, we're selling them REALLY expensive cough syrup that just stops the coughing.
That's surveillance technology in a nutshell, it's unsustainable, and long run, a huge waste of money.
Think about it, the 1984 scenario, you've got total control, total surveillance, the reality is, that situation would never come to pass, because people can simply not go to work, just say, nawh, i'm not going to do it.
You can poke them with sticks all you want, the precipitous drop in efficiency would send the economy into an irrecoverable tail spin.
NEWSPEAK totalitarianism, has significantly lower overall productivity than egalitarian systems.
Human beings are extremely sensitive pansies. Recall the days one were upset, how much good work did gitrdone that day.
