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A report for the Pentagon was released by Arlington, Virginia-based Govini, which in 2019 received a five-year, $400 million contract from the Pentagon to provide data, analysis and information on Department of Defense spending, supply chain and acquisitions.
The report also states that dependence on the Chinese supply chain is present on every major weapons platform, including US aircraft carriers.
It is separately noted that the current dependence on China cannot be resolved even in a decade. Because a “supply chain” at this scale is an entire economy, as it is a network of many firms that buy and sell from each other.
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Excuse me, they paid $400 million for someone to tell them how they’re spending their money??
It really is completely made up huh?
The Pentagon had like a trillion dollars completely unaccounted for in their budget vs actual spending so this is chump change
Oh yeah, that was the trillion dollars they announced they “lost” like a day before 9/11 right?
An audit report, released on Feb. 25, 2000, about financial statements for the fiscal year 1999 by the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Defense says, “For the accounting entries, $2.3 trillion was not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity, $2 trillion was not reviewed because of time constraints, and $2.6 trillion were supported.”
So they ACKSHUALLY revealed they could not track 2.3 trillion dollars a year earlier (but yes, Rumsfeld also did have that speech September 10, 2001)
I’ll bet you feel silly
Fact checkers are deeply unserious people.
9/11 was very expensive, it seems.
And very profitable for others.
That’s a masterful burying of bad news. But to be fair if I had to do presentation on how I’d lost a large countries GDP’s worth of money, I’d probably also do it the day before I knew a biggest news day for a deccade would be happening.
Pentagon: pays 400 million bucks for basically audit
Pentagon: still can’t pass an official audit
lol yeah
Lmfao how does the military with the most bloated budget in the history of the planet not have base up control of their supply chain? Not only do they not, they rely on their biggest rival who they constantly sabre rattle at for basic components?
I know capitalists can only plan one quarter ahead and will readily sell you the rope to hang them with but it still manages to surprise me a little
Lmfao how does the military with the most bloated budget in the history of the planet not have base up control of their supply chain?
Gunpowder is only manufactured by two private companies in the US lol. Not even government owned, privately run like some of their ammo factories.
Jesus Christ I knew they had privatized everything they could but I didn’t realize they don’t even own the gunpowder production. Is there anything they actually control or is everything contracted out to the lowest bidder?
Is there anything they actually control or is everything contracted out to the lowest bidder?
“Not if I did my job!”How else would line go up?
America goes to war with China.
Every price of American equipment plays “The East is Red” at max volume and self destructs.
I only have time to read this, not deliver line by line dunking, but I encourage comrades to read this article critically as it is a masterclass in neoliberal interests making a correct critique shared by the left (hollowing out domestic production and overreliance on Chinese suppliers has consequences) but wedded to entirely the wrong takeaway and diagnosis. Truly sublime
Haha couldn’t have said it better.
Indeed, the problems are inaction, lack of will, layers of obstructionist government and Pentagon bureaucracy, and executive policies that do nothing.
Sensible chuckle!
Oh no! China is doing an imperialism!
Somewhere in Grundrisse, Marx considers nations conquering others. He points out that pillaging a country consists in taking control of the components of their material production, and that the process of pillaging looks very different wether you’re considering conquering a rural economy (occupying land, taking hold of slaves…) or a nation of rentiers.
We won’t be alive to see it, but I bet future historians will consider this current era as the conquest of the US empire
I hate when know-nothings think that any electronic device with a Chinese made component is a threat. They literally think it’ll started beeping and glowing red then burst in to flames like a damn simpsons sight gag.
I think in this case it’s less china spying on you through your asic chip, and more a failure of American industry and wartime manufacturing capacity.
Let’s say we have the great American-Chinese war, it’s not unreasonable to assume the US will lose some material right? Well that’s a big problem when your replacement parts come from your main adversary. Who has, coincidentally, by manufacturing all your peacetime supplies built all the infrastructure and expertise to build their own wartime supplies.
Shortking Deng continues to win.
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It should make the world nervous. If America can’t win a conventional war those nukes are going to look real attractive to whoever is holding the button.
They’re sending their weapons to China to test? 💀 reminds me of Taiwan shipping their missile to a Chinese company to repair lol
cut the cordNah, keep at it Xi, every time the US outsources another thing to china it is neutering US industrial might and giving more money and control to Beijing.
That top graph is strange. They couldn’t have ordered the number of Chinese suppliers in any sensible way? And only 5 of those categories of suppliers have more than 1 corresponding component category?
I agree the chart is kinda shitty… I mean that’s just what you get tho when you’re the Pentagon paying some contractors $400 million. American excellence
Have I been mispelling “fuse”
What is structure in this context? Does that just mean American weapons use Chinese aluminum?
Nope. It’s also whole components like pumps, chips, antennae etc
So is that double counting chips and antennae then?
I dunno fam. Go count the stuff and tell us
