How come the US doesn't do cool military parades (tanks

our military is actually out fucking shit up so they don't need this meaningless show of dick waving

>>31882559
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>>31882546
The US doesn't do military parades since the Gulf War.

Military parades are meant for controlling the populace.

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because our version of "kool military parades" is annihilating the fuck out of some 2nd-3rd world country every few years.

Invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the last one. Russia will probably be the next test site for our new shit

>>31882564
>meant for controlling the populace
yep, we have reality tv shows and mainstream media for that

>>31882546
Because the Nancys get mad. We had Blue Angels here on Fleet Week and people were complaining about unecessary spending for displays of "aggressive strafing runs" and how it was, in fact, the current year

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>>31882546
The more insignificant the army, the more ridiculous the marching.
The more irrelevant the country, the more missiles per parade.

>>31882546
Parades are for those who won atleast single war, anon.

>>31882643
kek

As far as general military parades, I think the images of Nazi Germany and the countries already mentioned have stigmatized it in peoples' minds.

>>31882615
I mean, I've already kind of lost faith in the general public of this country, but damn, if they ever shitcan the Blue Angels I will lose my fucking mind.

I don't know how you could look at all that, see the absolute precision with which they're flying, feel the rumble of a combined value of roughly 30,000 pounds of force, and not at least have SOME appreciation, if not for military tech, then at least for general human achievement.

>>31882756
The American general public has always hated war. When we all agree that someone else is worse than our dislike of killing, we tend to get involved. But the bloodlust never lasts that long.

>>31882546

We wag our dicks by dropping $50,000 ordinance on individual camel jockeys, not by doing useless parades.

The Ruskies are figuring it out, though.

>>31882643
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>>31882807
So true, we don't have to show off, everyone knows we have the biggest dicks

>As far as general military parades, I think the images of Nazi Germany and the countries already mentioned have stigmatized it in peoples' minds.

Are you retarded? "Germany did parades so now nobody does parades because of Nazis"

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They do, you fucking ignorant prick.

>>31882564

>since the Gulf War.

To be fair, the entire Gulf War was basically a two week military parade on TV.

>>31883761

He's not retarded, the people are. the "nazi salute" has been done for ages, yet the nazis have become associated with it and people stigmatize it, same with the swastika and various other things.

>>31882546
I thought it was something something military can't be deployed on U.S soil unless a state of emergency or executive order happens first?

>>31882546
Because we've spent a good half-century or more associating these parades with communist dictatorships.

However, our air shows are the best in the world.

>>31883793
No, you're retarded for assuming people associate parades with nazis, and that's why they're not done.

>>31883770
>To be fair, the entire Gulf War was basically a two week military parade on TV.
This is the real reason. We don't have to parade our artillery pieces and rockets around in the streets to convince the people we could totally blow up some other guys if we really wanted to, honest, we just choose not to because we're so much better than them, really.

We convince our people we can blow shit up by blowing shit up on live television.

>>31883817
A parade isn't a deployment. I mean, we have plenty of military bases and shit in the US, we just can't use out military in a peacekeeping or law enforcement capacity and other shit like that.

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We do. It's called Veteran's Day.

>>31882546
Because America doesn't spend half its GDP on its military, and thus doesn't have this need to show the people what they're paying for.

>>31882546
Because we still dislike a standing army
We only tolerate it because it's not on our turf.
No armies south of the Rubicon, anon.

>>31882546

But air shows. Tanks and shit would be cool tho.

>>31883769

I feel like parading veterans is different than parading equipment. Parading veterans is a way of saying thank you. Parading equipment is for intimidation.

>>31883769
>no tanks
>no goose-stepping
>no polished jack boots

Not single person carrying a firearm besides the honor guard (not even sure of that because it's hard to tell).

>>31883841

I'm not assuming that, he is. I'm saying that his reasoning isn't exactly wrong, it applies in many other places.

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because some nigger would bomb it.

and the us military relies more on mystique.

even when we're getting reamed by third world niggers people think we have secret alien technology underground to use against Russia.

>>31884407
>3rd world niggers
>reamed

The burden of proof is upon you; so let's see your examples.

>>31884407
>reamed by third world niggers
Iraq War
>the US lost 4,486
>Iraq lost 500,000

i mean shit, im not saying we are successful at it(because our goverment doesnt want us to whoop for some reason) but we are not getting reamed.

>and b4 that Iraq war is not the same as our current situation with isis.

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