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@pre@boing.world
2025-05-21 21:56:46
Content warning: "Golden Dome" SASS?

😆 Missile Air Defense As a Service
MAD AS you like.
In some ways a government paying by a subscription for a missile defense service has been inevitable since Reagan started the mission to Privatize Literally Everything.
The government will own nothing, and be happy.
States must do only one thing: Pay money to rich people to get them to do the things.
The idea of Reagan's Star Wars returning is pretty crazy in itself. That launching all those satellites would massively enrich the government's biggest donor is mostly just pretty typical corruption.
But having the government pay to rent it out is just amazing. 🧑‍🍳 💋
Hey, if Russia and China outbid America during the hour they were launching the missiles, that's just the free market!
Never really even know if it works without being attacked, but the rich owners get to extract the wealth from it all the same.
Rentierism? In this economy?
🤣
#goldenDome #us #defense

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-17 17:36:00

A decade after #Brexit , the #UK has re-engaged with largest #EU trading partner and signed landmark #trade &

The UK and Germany have agreed a friendship treaty aimed at resetting the countries’ post-Brexit relations. The treaty comes nearly a decade after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.



The accord — dubbed the "Kensington
Treaty" — includes plans for close security and defense cooperation, a mutual assistance clause in crises, and visa simplifications for school exchanges. The British premier had also hosted French President Emmanuel Macron the week before to agree on closer Franco-Brit…
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-09 21:26:04

African Leaders of Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon and Guinea-Bissau recently attended #DJT #WhiteHouse summit ostensibly on #Economic and #defense

Screenshot of Wall Street Journal story on Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon and Guinea-Bissau pressed by White House to begin taking in excess US #immigrants.