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- us_news@lemmygrad.ml
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- us_news@lemmygrad.ml
A report for the Pentagon was released by Arlington, Virginia-based Govini, which in 2019 received a five-year, $400 million contract from the Pentagon to provide data, analysis and information on Department of Defense spending, supply chain and acquisitions.
The report also states that dependence on the Chinese supply chain is present on every major weapons platform, including US aircraft carriers.
It is separately noted that the current dependence on China cannot be resolved even in a decade. Because a “supply chain” at this scale is an entire economy, as it is a network of many firms that buy and sell from each other.
Oh yeah, that was the trillion dollars they announced they “lost” like a day before 9/11 right?
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld did not reveal that the Pentagon had lost $2.3 trillion the day before the September 11, 2001, attacks. The DoD had mentioned this number, which reflects transactions that could not be tracked, more than a year earlier.
So they ACKSHUALLY revealed they could not track 2.3 trillion dollars a year earlier (but yes, Rumsfeld also did have that speech September 10, 2001)
I’ll bet you feel silly
Fact checkers are deeply unserious people.
9/11 was very expensive, it seems.
And very profitable for others.
That’s a masterful burying of bad news. But to be fair if I had to do presentation on how I’d lost a large countries GDP’s worth of money, I’d probably also do it the day before I knew a biggest news day for a deccade would be happening.