Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur...
by dragonwriter on Friday August 30, 2013 @06:41PM
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> Well, there is a chart for that on wikipedia too, and it doesn't look good either.
After you misrepresented the last one without actually linking to it, I'm not really inclined to expend the effort to verify your characterization of this one.
> There was a country just a little over 20 years ago that was in debt up to its neck and was trying to do global surveillance and project global power.
AFAICT, the Soviet Union, just before it fell, had an estimated $65-$100 billion in foreign debt with a GDP on the order of $2.5 trillion -- it wasn't really "in debt up to its neck".
After you misrepresented the last one without actually linking to it, I'm not really inclined to expend the effort to verify your characterization of this one.
> There was a country just a little over 20 years ago that was in debt up to its neck and was trying to do global surveillance and project global power.
AFAICT, the Soviet Union, just before it fell, had an estimated $65-$100 billion in foreign debt with a GDP on the order of $2.5 trillion -- it wasn't really "in debt up to its neck".