Basically, after years of debates on reddit (and really just the internet in general) revolving around military history and precise technical and operational capabilities and effectiveness of various weapons and vehicles (think the kind of discussions that lead people to leak classified documents on warthunder forums), a number of ‘camps’ basically formed.

You had ‘wehraboos’, a modification of weeaboo, but absolutely fanatical about the superiority of the German Wehrmact, ‘conmieboos’, same thing but for the Soviets, and on and on.

Combined with that, you had a whole lot of people criticizing modern US equipment and its cost, a lot of them looking up to a group of people sometimes referred to as ‘the reformers’ and also sometimes referred to as ‘the fighter plane mafia’.

These people basically claimed to be ex US military or designers of older US weapons/vehicles, who claimed their notions of how to do military stuff more along the lines of ‘cheap enough to get the job done, producible in large numbers’ as opposed to ‘immensely expensive, technologically dependent and technologically superior, but fewer in number’… that these notions made them the sort of dark horse, cool kids version of the correct way the US military should have proceeded, that they’d been ignored and blackballed by corrupt and ignorant US Military and Political higher ups.

These people often went on RT and other foreign media platforms, and podcasts, to basically play up every technological problem and budget overrun or project delay in US military equipment.

At this same time, both the wehraboos and commieboos were basically radicalizing politically, and becoming more ingrained with any talking points from ‘the fighter plane mafia’ types badmouthing the US.

NonCredibleDefense originally formed as a response to the insanity of all of this, making fun of a whole bunch of people who were making absolutely ludicrous claims which could often be fairly easily proven to be nonsense.

… Then Russia invaded Ukraine and everything went completely nuts.

The wehraboos had basically become Nazis, the commieboos had basically become either Tankies or hated NATO so much that they sided with Putin.

You ended up with … basically NonCredibleDefense aligning themselves with Ukraine, but also still being very critical of modern Western domestic and foreign policy in general… and getting into tons of spats with any military enthusiast that supported Putin… or hated LGBTQ people.