I see. How many warheads was that order? Nukes. Mhmm.
Some equipment got sold that shouldn't have. That's exactly what I'm talking about. The US sells a lot of high tech military industrial crap because it's made by the big defense companies with politicians on their board.
They sell it to dictators on both sides of wars. They sell it to allies. Worst of all they sell it to our own government at absurd prices.
As long as they get paid they don't care where the money came from. Was it foreign aid? Tax dollars? Cocaine profits? Who cares. Pay us. Oh you don't want to pay? How about a war? Yay even more money for us!
Then we scream about healthcare and other budget stuff meanwhile the defense budget is more bloated and decrepit than Henry the 8ths stinky ass.
Japan was restricted from buying or building that stuff after WWII. They developed consumer industries. They also benefited from all our bases there. And actually they still built a pretty good military too. Their economy heated up then what? Still didn't end up being a winning equation.
Why? It's a ponzhi scheme. You still have to be willing to suck in immigrants and people need to have babies.
Brazil did this minus most of the industry, infrastructure, internal reinvestment, etc being developed. Immigrants came, worked hard and built up certain sectors, integrated, had babies. But most of the opportunity is in a few cities that still have third world slums. Meanwhile the cops aren't being paid in a Rio so they've mobilized 10,000 troops. Where did the money go?
Some equipment got sold that shouldn't have. That's exactly what I'm talking about. The US sells a lot of high tech military industrial crap because it's made by the big defense companies with politicians on their board.
They sell it to dictators on both sides of wars. They sell it to allies. Worst of all they sell it to our own government at absurd prices.
As long as they get paid they don't care where the money came from. Was it foreign aid? Tax dollars? Cocaine profits? Who cares. Pay us. Oh you don't want to pay? How about a war? Yay even more money for us!
Then we scream about healthcare and other budget stuff meanwhile the defense budget is more bloated and decrepit than Henry the 8ths stinky ass.
Japan was restricted from buying or building that stuff after WWII. They developed consumer industries. They also benefited from all our bases there. And actually they still built a pretty good military too. Their economy heated up then what? Still didn't end up being a winning equation.
Why? It's a ponzhi scheme. You still have to be willing to suck in immigrants and people need to have babies.
Brazil did this minus most of the industry, infrastructure, internal reinvestment, etc being developed. Immigrants came, worked hard and built up certain sectors, integrated, had babies. But most of the opportunity is in a few cities that still have third world slums. Meanwhile the cops aren't being paid in a Rio so they've mobilized 10,000 troops. Where did the money go?