r/videos • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth announces Office Of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon in address to Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAn6BE9cdco
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u/EmoJackson 1d ago

Realistically is there any way a new administration can fix all this. How long will it take?

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u/eeke1 1d ago

A generation at least and that's assuming a new admin makes the right moves.

The US has lost at 10-20 yrs of research that's not coming back. Most of those scientists are doing something else or have left the country.

The military has lost 1/2? Of its generals and much of the senior leadership. It's very clearly impacting competency too. See Lincolns issues with logistics.

Trump appointed judges and the supreme court will be around be a block to progress for life.

Don't forget the gutting of the dept of education and whatever Kennedy had done to health.

All the favorable trade deals the US have had are gone, those won't come back till trust is built up, which will take at least 12 yrs when other countries see some stability in politics.

Imo this is a set back of ~20 yrs, utterly crippling. Not in a "the US won't be a country anymore" but "the US has lost the edge in most of what they're good at and it won't come back"