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In other words, it's a big money play to scam the government for Military-Industrial Complex pork, bankrolled by foreign investors because it's the 21st Century and nothing has to make sense anymore.


This is pretty absurd when framed this way.

As a long time critic of military spending, at least I would call it. A plus that most of that spending is receipts to some other US business no matter how regressive those transfers may be.

But once it can be arbitraged by international capital, and leeching of foreign governments who can't control their own spending becomes a business we have hit full insanity.


Years ago, I saw an article in some legal industry magazine about how a new thing for UK venture capital to invest in was American lawsuits.




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