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How Trump Is Killing the U.S. Defense Industry (foreignpolicy.com)

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It may seem obvious that governments should think through their policies before implementing them; if they don’t, they risk encountering the dreaded law of unintended consequences. That’s exactly what’s happening in the United States’ defense-industrial policy.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are very much the intended consequences. While some of Trump's "policies" can be explained by stupidity, greed or Nazi ideology, dismantling the defence industry can not. The only reasonable explanation is that he is doing it at the behest of Putin.

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's the explanation that requires the least amount of assumptions