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Thunderbeast

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1. All of those "logistical and supply complecities"

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Aug 17, 2021, 10:34 AM

Aug 2021

depend on very expensive military contractors and external support costing millions upon millions of dollars per day; Much of it taken as corporate profits. Some going to corrupt payoffs to local officials.

The whole program was not sustainable....ever.

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