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"Because politicians need kickbacks, wealthy shareholders need "defense" stocks to keep rising and vassal states like Canada need to act at the behest of their
by JimtheCoder 4y ago
"Because politicians need kickbacks, wealthy shareholders need "defense" stocks to keep rising and vassal states like Canada need to act at the behest of their geopolitical master."
Well, things like logic can't beat arguments like this...
- StanislavPetrov 4y agoThat's right, because logic works hand in hand with objective reality. On the other hand, logic would be very effective to beat the patently absurd argument that Canada's purchase of 88 F-35s is in any way related to an actual military threat faced by Canada. Unfortunately, even on HN, absurd propaganda doubling as conventional wisdom trumps logic and objective reality every time when it comes to geopolitics.