Can the theatricality bill, nobody on the GCC bug tracker but you cares if the country that spent two trillion dollars to replace the Taliban in twenty years with the Taliban doesn't seem to have they acumen to fund something they're now critically dependent upon. They can barely get it in gear to fund their own budget each year without a partisan meltdown.
If they could do any of this themselves, you'd be on the golf course.
If the customer was the Government of France, the line “the customer has nuclear weapons” would be factually accurate irrespective of whether the particular work was on, or even remotely related to, nuclear weapons.
It might not be relevant, but then, even if the work is on a nuclear weapons program, “the customer has nuclear weapons” doesn’t seem relevant to the discussion. Really, short of the case where the customer prefers to motivate software developers with the threat of nuclear annihilation rather than feature bounties, it seems a complete non-sequitur no matter what the work is.
They are obviously not the masters of the domain they think they are, but that happens sometimes in bureaucracies.
When is the last time they stayed within budget?