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    The “they’re about to find out why we don’t have free healthcare” crowd must be so proud 🥰

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      “The US has only one accountant with the knowledge to work out the free healthcare bill but she’s busy employed as an engineer for Arms Dealers LLC.”

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        I know you’re making a joke, and it’s hilarious, but it reminded me of someone mentioning why universities push STEM so much and it’s because of their link to arms manufacturing.

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    “condensation can fry the electronics inside the vehicle”

    Electronics defeated by rain. They’ve basically described it as an expensive piece of shit.

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    I cant help but laugh every time a hastily assembled $1200 russian drone smokes a “state-of-the-art” $7M+ capitalist defense industry tank.

    This whole war has really been an absolute marketing disaster for the western arms manufacturers. Sure, you can hide these failures from the public, but the states that might buy this junk are going to kick the tires a lot more on a billion dollar order.

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      Sales are nothing compared to the geopolitical hit the US is suffering. The entire existence, or at least, the diplomatic stance, budget/economy, politics of certain nations resides on assumptions made of the efficacy of US-made arms systems to defend them (e.g. Israel, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, etc etc).

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        Totally agree. I didn’t mean to imply any actual sales loss as the main effect here, but more that it undermines the entire US/NATO military export economy. All those extremely expensive toys rusting away in the mud has to be a shock to the imperial hubris, even if the west won’t openly admit it.

        I think the lesser empire managers might be getting a wake-up call that the path of violence and uni-polar domination is not a certain future and these weapons are only a guarantee that you’ll probably end up like Ukraine if you try to use them on anyone with the ability to defend themselves.