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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: US cuts off intelligence-sharing with Ukraine
Date: 03/05/25 6:01 PM
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this intelligence infrastructure , now setup over ~3 years, runs with minimal cost.
if it wasnt obvious, the white house kabuki theater was all to aid putin, had little to do with funding, and zero to do with peace.
(see bbc statistics podcast revealing EU leads america in ukraine aid, by virtue of ~30b in 45yr lowrate loans. hell, no wonder genius businessman has chap11 envy.)

the american defense-industrial sector has reaped much of the current benefit by the depletion of obsolete stock, but they may miss out on some future contracts from EU countries that would now much rather buy locally. (or at least from south korea, top of the heap in performance/price)
however, this is most easily fixed via MAGA corruption...middlemen lobbyists no longer needed.

various excellent interweb posts updating 5 eyes : they have sharply moved from trump 1.0 fear of braggadocio exposure of shared secrets to outright kompramat. the 'call' is not just coming from inside the house, its from the oval office.
since its all public, technically trump isnt a 'mole', so let's go with muskrat.
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