• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    13 days ago

    I think that was some cold war blustering tbh. Make the reds think you’ve got some insane impossible tech and then watch them waste time trying to replicate it.

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      13 days ago

      That describes what they did to us pretty well. Or I guess the Soviet’s were barely even involved, but our military industrial complex convinced us we needed to close a “missile gap” and we’ve spent half our GDP for the last 60 years trying to “keep up” with a military that can’t even beat one of its former satellites.