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minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·6 days agoLiving outside the US I’m not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon’s incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I’m… I don’t know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·6 days agoYou should be more terrified. And also more glad
minus-squareZeffSyde@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoThey want both of these things.
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoWhat incompetence? It’s just the usual corruption. It’s 90% of what Pentagon does.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoThis is corruption, but there’s nothing usual about it.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoWere it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoBeing corrupt does not get you territories. I just makes you waste money on never ending conflicts so that private contractors can get richer.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoBeing 90% corrupt gives you more territories than being 99% corrupt
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoOh, ok, you’re saying they are more corrupt, not less. Didn’t get it.
Living outside the US I’m not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon’s incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I’m… I don’t know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.
You should be more terrified. And also more glad
They want both of these things.
What incompetence? It’s just the usual corruption. It’s 90% of what Pentagon does.
This is corruption, but there’s nothing usual about it.
Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
Being corrupt does not get you territories. I just makes you waste money on never ending conflicts so that private contractors can get richer.
Being 90% corrupt gives you more territories than being 99% corrupt
Oh, ok, you’re saying they are more corrupt, not less. Didn’t get it.