• xyzzy@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    You’ve got to imagine that if the US somehow got into a shooting war with a country they had previously sold arms to, and it were possible to remotely disable their aircraft, that someone in the MIC would say, “Hold on. If we use this kill switch, the world will see it and literally no countries will ever buy weapons from us again.”

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        12 days ago

        It’s not an accident that in an era where every single part of the US budget is being gutted (or likely to be gutted before all of this is over with), the Pentagon received an enormous increase. The MIC runs the US. If the CEO of Lockheed Martin makes a call to Trump, you had better believe Trump listens closely.

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          The pentagon has been growing like an out of control cancer since at least 9/11, this doesn’t prove that.

          I am sorry, do you still at this late date think Trump listens? Even if he wanted to, he wouldn’t know how he hasn’t done it in decades.

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            12 days ago

            My guy, the fact that you can’t have a friendly discussion without immediately down voting every response indicates that someguy3 is probably right