Camera One, pointed at The Atlantic:
America Scrambles to Catch Up With Chinese and Russian Weapons
Camera Two, pointed at Wikipedia:
The missile gap was the Cold War term used in the US for the perceived superiority of the number and power of the USSR’s missiles in comparison with its own (a lack of military parity). The gap in the ballistic missile arsenals did not exist except in exaggerated estimates, made by the Gaither Committee in 1957 and in United States Air Force (USAF) figures. Even the contradictory CIA figures for the USSR’s weaponry, which showed a clear advantage for the US, were far above the actual count. Like the bomber gap of only a few years earlier, it was soon demonstrated that the gap was entirely fictional.
The first Cold war was a scam to sell weapons to despots and imperialism to democracies, all to combat an economically backwards “threat” that lost interest in globalism of any kind with the purge of Trotsky.
I see no reason the second Cold War should be any less detached from reality. Nonsense worked smashingly during the Mad Men era, why not today? Have people gotten any smarter?
Is it just the intellectual part or do you think that there’s also a lack of courage ? It’s not as if technology hasn’t afforded us real time and more factual information.
Sadly, people generally believe what they want to believe, what’s easiest to believe. So yeah, courage is definitely a factor but I’d argue that laziness is a bigger one.
If democracy was easy, everybody would have one.
This is part of the control drama that enables our mass murder economy to thrive and keeps those on top on top, despite the fact that their corruption and moral depravity is destroying society and our planet.
It’s time to stand up against these delusional self entitled pricks and demand a war crimes tribunal and a new socioeconomic system that doesn’t reward theft first and most and rely upon exploitation.