[drivebyhooting]

You’re taking a dim view on the government.

Is the government always the most efficient or intelligent? No. But the government can also build nukes, launch ICBMs, coordinate hundreds of spy satellites, etc. I count those capabilities as pretty smart.

[paxys]

The people who maintain these ICBM silos and spy satellites will themselves tell you that their infrastructure is decades out of date and woefully underfunded.

[UltraSane]

the US launches new spy sats pretty often. And the US is spending $150 billion replacing every ICBM and silo but the current ones still work fine.

[Eisenstein]

Sounds like something we should remedy.