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The Pentagon is mad that Congress forced them to stop buying Chinese drones. Apparently there are no available replacements in some categories and even where there are, they are many times more expensive.
Sounds about right for US infrastructure.
::: spoiler australia doing the same shit
Banned from tendering in the National Broadband Network in 2012, banned from participating in the 5G network in 2018, called for removal of surveillance/security cameras in 2018, funded undersea cables in the pacific to block Huawei in 2018, purchased Digicel to prevent Chinese involvement in 2021
US, UK, CAN & AU, 5eyes has been frothing over this for a while
Ahh my bad, that was 3 years earlier instead
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-25/telstra-digicel-pacific-telecommunications-deal-finalised/100564976
Somehow on my phone in :estonia-burning: I can access RT and came across this article where the US was coping at South Africa to abandon it's partnerships with Huawei because "you need to use :lmayo::amerikkka: technologies". Anyways, South Africa told :amerikkka: to :PIGPOOPBALLS:
I love watching Congress fuck over the Pentagon. Just the worst people in the world slapfighting over fake money. Probably a bad idea to let hundreds of lead huffing jet ski dealers whose only qualification is buying more TV add time than their opponents run a global empire.
My favorite instance of this was the US Army begging congress not to buy more Abrams tanks because they were already too expensive to maintain but congress overruling them and ordering them to buy more to keep the factories open.
Abrams printer go brrrrrrr![brrrrrrrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrrr](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3897ea93-6af9-4fee-9511-b0345fea8453.png)
Just like the coal industry.