Maybe if they invested all those trillions of dollars in the people, instead of wars to slaughter brown people in the middle east, they would have the technology and knowledgeable people that COULD build those planes. But America refuses to invest in it's greatest asset, it's people. What a travesty and a sham this country is.
A report on the $100 billion (yes, billion) in unnecessary and new nuclear weapons from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was on the front page of my local newspaper (northwest Montana) last week. It's worth reading the report in full, as it talks about the economic dependence of rural areas on these weapons--which the writer points out are outdated and don't serve national security anymore--because of where the silos are located and asks the question, "What if rural Montana could have high-quality roads without the Air Force? What if a military base weren’t the only route to a dignified living? What if the range of choices available to Americans wasn’t so narrow that building a weapon of mass destruction can come to be seen as an essential paycheck?"
Maybe if they invested all those trillions of dollars in the people, instead of wars to slaughter brown people in the middle east, they would have the technology and knowledgeable people that COULD build those planes. But America refuses to invest in it's greatest asset, it's people. What a travesty and a sham this country is.
It's all so terribly devastating when your eyes are opened to the truth of how things really work in this country. It's been a cold, harsh awakening.
A report on the $100 billion (yes, billion) in unnecessary and new nuclear weapons from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was on the front page of my local newspaper (northwest Montana) last week. It's worth reading the report in full, as it talks about the economic dependence of rural areas on these weapons--which the writer points out are outdated and don't serve national security anymore--because of where the silos are located and asks the question, "What if rural Montana could have high-quality roads without the Air Force? What if a military base weren’t the only route to a dignified living? What if the range of choices available to Americans wasn’t so narrow that building a weapon of mass destruction can come to be seen as an essential paycheck?"
There is a lot in the original essay but it's worth reading as it's excellently written and reported and details all the special interests, revolving doors, etc., that make getting rid of this expense so difficult: https://thebulletin.org/2021/02/why-is-america-getting-a-new-100-billion-nuclear-weapon/