If I was American I wouldn't care so much about the stock pile but about the amount that was and is still being used everyday. 3.5M$ x 850 is a lot of wasted money when diplomacy is much less expensive.
Seeing the NASA ask for a permanent moon base at $20B while the pentagon is looking for $200B really puts it into perspective. You’re telling me it’s going to cost 10x as much to wage war on Iran as it is to build a moon base? Wtf are we doing.
NASA didn't go to moon for the love of science and because it was cool. They went there because Sputnik was an ICBM with a radio for a payload instead of a warhead.
Oh yes absolutely it will cost more than $20B. But that’s an order of magnitude difference. If NASA has price overruns by 9x it’s still cheaper. That’s why it’s so stark.
A stalemate with China. Not a stalemate with North Korea, who were pushed all the way back to the Chinese border, until the Chinese army joined the fight.
Even then, it only became a stalemate because US politicians were unwilling to risk further escalation (as in Vietnam).
What fantasy world are you living in? Until now, people around the globe had access to food, clothing, medicine, and energy because prior administrations at least had the decency not to provoke a full-scale war with a nation capable of cutting off critical natural resources to much of the world.
Because MAGA ideology sees prosperity only through the lens of triumphantly screwing over others, they can't recognize mutual benefit as a victory. This shortsightedness will cost countless lives in the years ahead.
By declaring thousands of truck engines and wheels "unfixable" repeatedly and ordering more while giving the scrap so terrorists can buy the waste cheap to make weapons and bombs to keep an illegal war going. Or by buying a diesel-fueled power plant that's too expensive to operate. Also, buying and losing expensive parts and declaring them "unserviceable". It just has to be done at very large scale.
PS: THAAD missiles are $12M each and GMD missiles are $75M each make for much simpler burning money rather than using it for food, housing, medications, or healthcare.
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