Sweden Is a NATO Member

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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