mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Iranians backed out of showing the world that carriers can be overwhelmed by projectiles and become new coral reefs (recycling the ocean feeding systems with new habitatThey are rearranging military and intelligence spending priorities. The money will be drained from the unsexy but vital programs and pushed onto the highly public, obsolete, behemoth projects that make a dictator think he looks important. Not to mention the ratio of money that actually reaches the real work will crater while waste, fraud, and abuse run rampant.
Authoritarian states spend grossly inefficiently on yesterday's technology and ignore all the subtle soft power amplifiers that actually keep us safer. We are wide open to attack with these clowns manipulating budget authorization and allocation. And they don't learn so every event will deepen the feedback spiral.
And that's just money and tech. The purges of military and intelligence experts who think Double Plus Ungood thoughts are even more damaging. Stalin's purges were the best gift the Wehrmacht ever got.
