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Re:Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup by nradov on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:11PM (#21518735)
The US and its coalition partners went to conventional war to stop Iraq from developing WMD. How well did that work out? WMD development is mostly done in secret so we'll usually never have hard evidence of what any country is doing. It's just a totally unrealistic proposal.
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Re:Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup by carti on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:42PM (#21527013)
This was claimed for propaganda purposes and never substantiated, afaik.
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Re:Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup by nradov on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:58PM (#21527969)
Exactly! Which is precisely why ISL’s proposal would never work in the real world. Countries would falsely claim that their enemies were secretly building WMDs.
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