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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 16 hours 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.

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 13 hours ago

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

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