• Adkml [he/him]
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    3120 days ago

    Can we not go a fucking week without all the Responsible Adults telling us it’s time to send another 50 billion dollars to famously corrupt neo nazis.

  • @freagle
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    2620 days ago

    $61Bn is very nearly the entire annual Russian military budget. Estimates have it at some where between $65Bn and $75Bn.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      3020 days ago

      yeah, but a bag of screws doesn’t cost 90k for the Russian military

      • @Addfwyn
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        620 days ago

        Only the most premium screws are accepted for consideration by the great US. How else can you be expected to shoot down weather balloons…eventually?

        Seriously though, I had friends who worked for military contractors (they’ve escaped) who told me stories about how much they overcharged the military on every single line item because it would never get reviewed.

    • huf [he/him]
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      2320 days ago

      yeah, but they make stuff for half to a tenth the price the US does, so it goes quite a long way…

  • loathesome dongeaterM
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    1420 days ago

    At this point it seems like their strategy is gonna be throwing the money at Russia and drown the country in bank notes.

  • huf [he/him]
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    720 days ago

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