re: #243 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Except they can’t. The US literally can’t go bankrupt; and certainly not due to an arms race with a country as poor as Russia.

Why can’t we? Remember Trump saying he wanted to default on the debt? Does not paying your bills (or not being able to) have the same effect?

Russia doesn’t have to produce a working fleet of these things, they just have to convince chickenhawks in Congress they can, so they spend more money on weapons programs and less on the country as a whole.