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submitted 10 months ago by Marsupial@quokk.au to c/world@lemmy.world

China missiles filled with water, not fuel: US intelligence. Xi seeking to root out corruption, prepare military for combat.

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[-] nbafantest@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

The US assessments cited several examples of the impact of graft, including missiles filled with water instead of fuel and vast fields of missile silos in western China with lids that don’t function in a way that would allow the missiles to launch

Absolutely hilarious.

Dictatorships and graft/incompetence... name a more iconic duo

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

This comment got me wondering about the difference between grift and graft-

The grifter is a small-time confidence man, a carnival swindler, or thief of some sort or other. The grafter may be most of these things, but also may be someone who engages in the “political corruption” sense of the word graft (which we define as “the acquisition of money, position, or other profit by dishonest or questionable means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or a position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, or pay for work not done or service not performed”).

-Merriam Webster

[-] nbafantest@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

So basically a grafter is a grifting politician

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Ooo communism and corruption, capitalism and exploitation, or just oligarchy and oligarchy.

[-] nbafantest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Every single dictatorship ends up like this. It's amazing.

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