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Is the $130 million "gift" to the Pentagon a trial balloon for further military privatization?
  • CubitOom@infosec.pub
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    5 days ago

    The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.

    — Timothy Snyder