@RCrawfordauthor They were bankrupting themselves long before the star wars investment, corruption and over reliance on oil and gas exports during a time of low oil and gas prices tipped them over the edge far more than any space weapons program (that never actually worked)
@HedyLamarr0629@POTUS thing is, it wasn't even 5% of the military budget. It was mostly old gear that was basically obsolete, stockpiled during the cold war.
Looks like this place has become a toxic wasteland run by a psychotic, insomniac, ketamine addict.
Bluesky.
Handle: Dangrously. (no e) I will be still here, but I won't be tweeting much.
@_SocialDemocrat They can't even maintain their tanks properly. Most of their nuclear scientists went west or remained in Ukraine or other former soviet republics that had nuclear plants. Corruption is rife, and nukes are very expensive to maintain.
@_SocialDemocrat Russia's nukes are all soviet era and require regular maintenence. They have a lifespan of less than thirty years, and nearly all the technicians are either long since retired, dead or not in Russia anymore.
If they had them, they would have tested one as an implicit threat.