Monday, February 19, 2024
The threat is real!
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation's Security Council, has threatened the United States and Europe with nuclear war if Russia is returned to its recognised borders from 1991.
Well I guess Nanos was right the nation does not need LANL or LLNL. Do you think anyone at DOE thinks that the whole "let privatize" the labs because after all, nuclear weapons are simply going to be irrelevant from here on out so it does not matter if the labs are run well or not.
My hypothesis has been that China, Russia and maybe even NK or Iran, had been following
and listening very carefully about just how badly we treated the labs from 1999 to 2014 and thought to themselves, "maybe American is compromised now, so lets go for it!". When you have politicians after politician, heads for DOE, heads of labs trashing the complex for this many years, someone has to be noticing.
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No question Nanos and the DOE zeal to privatize did irreparable damage to Los Alamos. We will pay the price for decades if we survive that long.
It's possible to government will have a lot more money soon to help pay that price, once the Trump tax cuts expire:
https://youtu.be/3nIWF9XvQAs?si=RCxOy7mDxyYNNFX3
People like to believe that the government has some master plan to destroy this or ruin that, but the truth is, they don't need a master plan. Their incompetence is fully capable without any evil genius behind it. Since the end of the Cold War, DOE has functioned like a monopoly with no motivation or competition. In this way, they are like the DMV. Getting any work done in budget or on time simply isn't necessary, in their minds, in a post-Cold War era. They have viewed the labs like a vestigial organ--you wouldn't cut it out for no reason, but it's not something you worry about either. I think we returned to great power competition within the past few years, but old habits die hard. I doubt the mentality will really change until Russia takes a NATO country or China takes Taiwan.
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