Yes, they did. Quite often at cost or even below it and to countries without hard currency. Made by state owned companies who, yes, had to meet production quotas and provided cushy jobs for the nomenklatura, but didn’t need to turn a profit in order to satisfy investors or a stock market.
What was produced in which numbers and what of it would or wouldn’t be traded1) to other members of the Warsaw Pact or sold to potential allies, potential adversaries of NATO or a “non-alligned” country was at the end of the day always a political decision.
Exporting arms was always a political, strategic or tactical move first, second and third. Economics rode along in the jump seat. The only way the Soviet Union made any real money in hard hard currencies was exporting minerals and fossile fuels to the West.
The privately owned American weapons producing ecosystem is a bit different from that.
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Usually some sort of barter. Either with actual goods or using a special currency; the famed "transfer rouble" issued by the international bank for economic cooperation in Moscow. Which was worth even _less_ outside of the SovBloc than _any_ of their regular currencies, in other words worthless. Granted, the failing Soviet Union back then gave a substantial part of their navy to PepsiCo (who sold it for scrap) to pay the bills, but I somehow can see Raytheon preferring money in hard currencies over swapping radar systems for soy beans. Maybe they'll accept BitCoin, though. Who knows.
So there are plans for a war with China, he just won’t show them to anyone.
All he has to do is shut up and be president, he does more damage by opening his mouth.
The memo comes after President Donald Trump pushed back on a New York Times report that DOGE head Elon Musk would be briefed on US military plans for a potential war with China while at the Pentagon on Friday. Trump said he wouldn’t show such plans “to anybody.”
If it’s inaccurate how can it he classified information?
The Department of Justice on Friday announced its own probe into “the selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified” information related to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
“We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information onto the pages of their allies at the New York Times,”
in former British colonies that are now independent Commonwealth realms, the governor-general is constitutionally the representative of the monarch in his or her state and may exercise the reserve powers of the monarch according to their own constitutional authority. The governor-general, however, is still appointed by the monarch and takes an oath of allegiance to the monarch in right of his or her own country.
Note the word ‘constitutionally’.
However, the monarch appointing them is entirely ceremonial…
The convention was gradually established throughout the Commonwealth that the governor-general would be a citizen of the country concerned, and would be appointed on the advice of the government of that country, with no input from the British government
But this seems to apply to former colonies made independent by Britain, whereas the US took its independence, so not even clear if it would apply.
Nevertheless, it is mind-boggling that Trump would say he thinks being part of the Commonwealth might be a good idea. I refer to my earlier post with a link to the Commonwealth Charter. He won’t be aware of it, but it almost guarantees it would not happen,
Not opening his mouth means less attention, and almost his only need is attention. Needs hardly any food, warmth, shelter, just attention. Without it, he dies.
I’m not sure that it’s ever happened that a country became part of the/a commonwealth after leaving it, or never having been a part of it. The whole fantasy is bonkers.
Probably so he can get some gold toilets or more portraits of himself.
The Egg Roll, which began during the Rutherford B. Hayes administration in 1878, has long been privately funded without taxpayer dollars, largely through the American Egg Board, which also provides tens of thousands of eggs for the occasion. And all money raised by Harbinger will go to the White House Historical Association.
