Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On 12 Jan 2025 00:13:59 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 1/10/2025 6:15 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

 
Got proof that our canned sunshine is going to work ?  The USA has not
tested a nuclear weapon since 1992.
 
Russia is even worse, they last tested a nuclear weapon in 1990
(actually Soviet Union).
 

Our military is much more competent and not so corrupt that officers
sell critical parts and components on the black market and our enlisted
are not permanently drunk.

>
More interestingly, the US doesn't actually let the military control
nuclear weapons outright.  They are mostly maintained by the DOE, a
civilian organization.  It's part of that checks and balances thing.
>
The Russian army has not had a good history of maintenance on the whole.
In the Soviet era the Army had their own special fastener threads to keep
people from stealing nuts and bolts off military gear for personal use.
But then, the Navy also had their own special system, to keep the Army
from stealing nuts and bolts off of Navy equipment...  and we thought
interservice rivalry in America was bad.

I once heard a story that a Saudi Arabian AA unit once fired on Saudi
Arabian aircraft flying over them because the planes were flown by
members of a different tribe, with which the AA crew's tribe had a
feud.

Weird things happen, and not just outside the USA.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"