• andrew_bidlaw
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    1 year ago

    Russia is just that now, I can tell. War spending and security services spending first, with a large margin of that compensating existing corruption, everything else is either populistic balloons or can fuck a knife. I don’t think US has it as relatable as we do.

    • uis@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Third of federal budget is fucking secret and top secret. Fucking bunker rat.