I’m not going to defend a Right Wing talking point.
Here’s the simplest truth of the Carter “Era:” 4 years is no era.

Broadly speaking, the buildup under Reagan — as seen in constant dollars — is undeniable; and Carter did cancel the B-1A. That was in his ballpark.

False dilemma if ever I read one.

It was both, really.

Here’s some rank ridiculousness: in the opening stages of the Korean War, there was a huge endeavor to literally round up derelict/abandoned equipment in the former WWII Pacific theater of operations and throw it into the Korean Peninsula as a stop gap to proper equipment in actual care of the US…

It’s in constant Fiscal Year 2005 dollars.
It’s a picture and that says so much more — I read the 2006 DoD Green Book nearly front to back [the zeal of youth :)] — those numbers aren’t lying.

The entire Korean Peninsula is the lasting legacy of America’s last, earnest attempt at isolationism. That and mercy. It was just too terrible to contemplate broadening the war against the Norks by bombing Chinese harbors — even with nukes.

I wonder if anyone has bothered estimating how many North Koreans have been…

Mao forbid anything but tens of thousands of ethnic Han Chinese flood an area anywhere in the periphery of the great People’s Republic of China.

LMAO, thanks for proving my point neatly: I wasn’t even talking about semi’s but the Tesla cars, which, if you want a 330 mile range, cost you a cool $97,000 for the P100D. Very house-like territory there in many parts of the country.

Early adopting graphics cards / cellphones which are risky: $300-1100 or so down the…

Dick. :)

A middle-of-the-road option would be an air-to-air optimized variant of the F-35.

I personally despise the NIMBY attitude as self-centered and unprincipled.

Because God, or someone, has a sense of humor, there is usually precious little wind in my experience, once the temperature approaches 100°F. Basically most climates.

Which takes, what, a ton of Li-Ion batteries as the floor of the vehicle and costs almost as much as a house in the rural Midwest.

You’re not wrong. I made a hasty edit while loading into a match in World of Tanks. 30 second countdowns promote sloppiness.

Here’s a post more worthy of FA 2017: did you know it takes ground-bursts to take out ICBM silo’s, which are in the Dakota’s? Did you know ground bursts are the dirtiest type of nuclear explosion?

That’s right: in the eventual nuclear holocaust with the Russians, TRUMP VOTERS IN RED AMERICA WILL DIE IN DROVES.

SUCK IT…

This.
Tractor trailers get about 5mpg & have 300 gallong tanks. Ballpark figures.

So... they’re not on fumes till well over 1000 miles.
Turns out ENERGY DENSITY of fossil fuels still massively outstrips all electric options.

I’m not a Luddite; we need to move on from fossil fuels eventually.
But the love affair this…

Don’t tractor trailers go the better part of 1000 miles on a single tank? (5mpg with a 300+ gallon tank)
BUT THE RANGE remains a valid complaint.
Completely stonewalling this notable fact drags this story down to a level barely better than propaganda.

That said, you should know where weapons designed to destroy the world are located and your proximity to them.

I guess all the Syrian welders live in Europe now.

Pretty much this with the exception of a naval variant.

sigh
My HS research paper was a plea to build more of these. (late 2003 fwiw)
If an 18 y/o can figure that shit out, what is Congress’ excuse?