this is the funniest thing i’ve read in ages
Yet they keep just following orders to climb that public 6 figure pension to executive private board room pipeline.
love the traditional wailing and pants shitting of the defense industry’s customary money dance
Michael Hirsh is wonderfully breathless and gullible
HOT TAKE: Go ahead, idiots… I’m sure a few trillion more on DoD welfare will make all the difference, lol. Just borrow the money from… China? The more heavily the US becomes indebted, the greater the chance it will eventually be kicked out of the global capitalist system. It took Russia over 25 years to pay off a measly $70 billion in foreign debts accrued by the USSR… all for the privilege of being part of the capitalist financial system.
It’s just grown men and women doing power level forum posts and playing war nerd D&D then pissing their pants about how they wouldn’t win a slam dunk victory over our biggest economic rival, seeing as we hollowed out our entire industrial base in the pursuit of ever-greater profit margins
Gallagher said the Pentagon should offer prime missile contractors such as Lockheed Martin a slew of new multi-year contracts.
The actual point of the article.