Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronauts on lunar surface

Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau... by panick21_ on Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:56PM (#36015964)

The real spending went down a tiny amount despite the largest army of the world was no longer in existence and there was no credible threat what so ever.

I always love how people fall for the false military budgets, the war cost, the veteran health, the nuclear cost and a lot of other associated cost that is conveniently hid outside of the 'military budget' despite it very clearly should be in the same bucket.

> It is certainly an option to adopt an isolationist stance and cut the military-industrial complex down

Ah the old 'anybody that doesn't believe absurd amount of military spending is an isolationist trope'. Never stops getting old that one.

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Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau... by nradov on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:20PM (#36027087)

How much should we cut the military budget? Please give a specific number and show your work.

We all understand that there is a huge amount of waste. But in practice it seems to be difficult to cut that waste without losing essential capabilities.

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Re:Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronau... by spiralx on Monday May 22, 2023 @11:40PM (#36039530)

It's redundancy, not waste, in the majority of cases. Look at what's happened to the Russian army to see what happens when there's no redundancy built-in to your logistics and supply chain, redundancy is essential to the capability of US military might.

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