Sweden Is a NATO Member

Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by willcipriano on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:21PM (#39631624)

The cold war was the largest project undertaken by any civilization in human history in terms of spending. With Sweden on board with NATO, defence contractors and other NATO adjacent public private partnerships can be assured that they won't interfere with that flow of funds.

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by ethbr1 on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:33PM (#39631839)

We did get the Internet, space programs, satellite-based sensing, phased array radar, MAD theory, and some other stuff out of the spending.

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by guappa on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:48PM (#39632097)

And it costed us 100x more than if we just put the money into science directly! YAY!

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by ethbr1 on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:14PM (#39633356)

:) Politics decides funding allocation in a democracy.

And it's a lot easier to justify military spending than it is research.

Same reason NASA is the way it is, but we still have a space program.

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Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member by euroderf on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:03PM (#39634546)

see: Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility & Desirability of Peace.

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