Lehrer, stellv. Schulleiter, Papa, Feminist, Toronto forever in my heart, isst keine Tiere, kann ideenlose Dagegen-Politik nicht ab, #edubw, #twlz, #noafd
@hugolowell@WIRED Spending 100-200 millions to guarantee more money on future and favors instead of positive good things is sick and part of what wrong in the world
America has spent sums of money on its military that would make God blush. Trillions of dollars, poured lovingly into aircraft carriers, stealth bombers and enough nuclear warheads to vaporise the solar system out of sheer spite.
All of it designed to stop the Soviets, frighten the Chinese, and presumably deal with any aliens foolish enough to invade a country with more guns than teeth.
And it worked, sort of, right up until Putin deployed the one weapon nobody at the Pentagon had thought to plan for: a man lounging on floral bedding in a dressing gown, looking like a prawn that’s given up on life.
Decades of intelligence briefings, and not one analyst raised his hand to say “what if the threat is already indoors, and comfortable?”
Because that’s the genius of it. Moscow never needed to launch anything. They just needed America to look at this and think, “yes, him, that’s our guy.” Trillions spent defending the nation, and it turns out the whole thing could be conquered with a bathrobe and a quilted bedspread. Somewhere in the Kremlin, a man is laughing so hard he’s had to sit down.
The Americans spent two billion dollars on a new Air Force One, a flying fortress with missile countermeasures, hardened communications and an actual operating theatre. And when a real assassination threat finally turned up, the Secret Service surveyed all this technology and chose the sandwich lorry.
The most protected human being in history fled a NATO summit in the vehicle that delivers chicken or pasta to row 34, hoisted down on a hydraulic platform designed for trolleys of orange juice, at a blistering eleven kilometres an hour. If the Iranians had attacked, he could have been overtaken by a man jogging.
His staff were then loaded onto the real plane and flown across Europe as bait, which I imagine featured prominently in the next employee satisfaction survey.
Churchill had a bunker. De Gaulle had a Citroën doing 130 through gunfire. America has a refrigerated box of bread rolls.
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„an audience that couldn’t find Iran on a map if you spotted them the first three letters“, won‘t get any better than this today!
Question for anti-vaxxers:
Why do you think doctors are wrong about vaccines but still go to the doctor when you’re sick?
How do you decide which medical advice to trust and which to ignore?
🧵über die Chronologie der #CDUCSU:
- 16 Jahre lang NICHTS investieren, Zukunftstechnologien sabotieren, Korruption an der Tagesordnung, neoliberale Märchen erzählen
- Unter der Ampel die Ampel für die 16 Jahre verantwortlich machen, Hetzkampagne gegen die Grünen starten..1/4