Comment by drivebyhooting
5 days ago
You’re taking a dim view on the government.
Is the government always the most efficient or intelligent? No. But the government can also build nukes, launch ICBMs, coordinate hundreds of spy satellites, etc. I count those capabilities as pretty smart.
The people who maintain these ICBM silos and spy satellites will themselves tell you that their infrastructure is decades out of date and woefully underfunded.
the US launches new spy sats pretty often. And the US is spending $150 billion replacing every ICBM and silo but the current ones still work fine.
Sounds like something we should remedy.