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China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favorite instance of this was the US Army begging congress not to buy more Abrams tanks because they were already too expensive to maintain but congress overruling them and ordering them to buy more to keep the factories open.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

frothingfash "Please, whatver you do just don't make us-

the-republican the-democrat "-Buy more Abrams, great idea, yes!"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Abrams printer go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

99% of the resistance to doing anything good is because the current bad thing provides jobs for like 500,000 people and no one wants to make an effort to help those people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just like the coal industry.