• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    174 days ago

    It’s bewildering to me that they didn’t have a backup plan. Like they just banked everything on Russian economy collapsing, and when that didn’t happen they just kept doubling down instead of adjusting the strategy.

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      4 days ago

      Realistically, what other plan could they have? They’ve used the same playbook since Vietnam and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but since it always funnels a shit ton of money to the pentagon and its contractors pumps the value of the dollar nobody gives a shit, it was a success by the only metric they care about.

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        114 days ago

        That’s very true, the MIC will be happy either way. They’re looking at decades worth of contracts from Europe already.