Trump's 'Golden Dome' will cost $1.2tn and might not stop all-out missile attack
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That pricetag is nearly seven times higher than Trump's initial estimate, found an independent budget office.

That pricetag is nearly seven times higher than Trump’s initial estimate, found an independent budget office.

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  • Corvidae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    12 days ago

    I’d rather have Nationalized Health Care and more social services in general. The more military and defenses the US builds, the more they need, while the quality of life of the masses decreases. In the 1950s, if a US citizen had a high school degree and a job, they could get a mortgage and buy a house. Those days are long gone. Maybe the solution is spending less on the military and defenses so we can concentrate on raising the standard of living of the masses? If not, then just what are they trying so hard to save? Lifestyles of the rich and famous?

    • DandomRude@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      12 days ago

      The excessive U.S. military spending is by no means about protecting the people. The point of it is to make billionaires richer. That is why it does not matter whether military spending yields any return or benefit, as investments in the healthcare system, infrastructure, or virtually any other sector would. That is not the intention; it is primarily about redistributing public funds into private hands.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    12 days ago

    Golden Phone was just the testbed for the Golden Dome.

    Getting the fleecing taxpayers deserve after voting that fuck into office.

  • ol_capt_joe@piefed.eeEnglish
    6·
    12 days ago

    Golden dome, sure, but what about the multi-dementia-nal bronze dome caving in between his ears?

  • Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    well of course it couldn’t stop an all out attack. there’s many thousands of warheads out there waiting to be launched, and most of them are MIRVs now. you’re talking thousands of ICBMs that split into dozens of attack vessels that strike their targets at a speed faster than a bullet. tracking, engaging, and successfully eliminating all of them is infeasible, it’s why the whole idea of MAD exists.

    • WalleyeWarrior@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Strategic Defense initiatives don’t protect you from a first strike situation, they protect you from a second strike situation after most of the enemy’s missiles have been destroyed. They invite first strikes because what you are telling the world is that you believe you can strike with relative impunity.