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Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.
Reminder that the missile they used to shoot this balloon down cost $400k
And one missed
And in the immense wave of paranoia afterwards they shot down three American weather balloons at the cost of 400k per missile plus fuel and maintenance and man hours.
And one of them was a child’s science project
Doesn’t an F-35 cost something stupid like 40k an hour to operate?
greatest military in the world no doubt
They love to talk all that shit about “our missiles are so accurate that we can hit a ladybug” or some such level of nonsense. Which all of a sudden goes away every time that it is shown how many more people were killed while trying to get one person.
Turns out they can only hit a ladybug because the heat from the blast fries the bug even if the missile misses by a wide margin
superior firepower just means more firepower
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Yes. This alone should disqualify Biden from being president.
Name a president in the past century that wouldn’t have done the exact same thing.
This is actually the most American thing Biden has ever done lol
My president:
Is that before or after the flight time on the plane they launched it from?
That’s just the direct cost of the missile itself. The cost of flying the $200m jet I’m unsure of!
It’s 70k per hour lmao. Amortized though so just 1 hour probably costs at least 100k
The DoD is the world’s largest employer with 2.9 million employees as of June 2022. Besides its direct function of projecting US power, it is also functionally a jobs program. The US is ideologically prohibited from handing out money for free via welfare programs, they must maintain the ideology of capitalism, by creating pointless work by which these people can “earn” the money. It is of zero consequence that each missile costs so many dollars. The whole point of its manufacture was to pay the workers and to allow the military-industrial capitalists to skim excess off the top of this waste. It’s a sham but it is a little more complicated than just lighting $400k on fire. That money was already spent, and they want these missiles used in order to justify their replacement. As an additional benefit, each of these 2.9 million employees is heavily propagandized by the state department every day at work.
Long-term, it benefits the US if the industry and its warfighters are permanently ready to fight a war.
I don’t agree with any of it btw, just adding some context.