[flashback2199]

Yeah, sorry, I don't believe for a second that Russia has failed to maintain their only playing card. What a joke. US military industrial complex folks will make up any story to excuse their audit-free slovenly spending.

[kurthr]

That doesn't make much sense. You'd think the military industrial complex would be playing up how competent and great a threat they are.

[stouset]

> Yeah, sorry, I don't believe for a second that Russia has failed to maintain their only playing card.

Have you, uh, been paying attention to Ukraine?

[c0pium]

Huh? How would the Russian arsenal being degraded and not effective in any way argue for more US defense spending?

[elzbardico]

Well, that's the genius in the Military Industrial Complex propaganda.

Russia is either pathetically weak and so we can push their buttons at our heart content or it is a all powerful evil entity and we need to spend like a trillion to close the missile gap.