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That doesn't make much sense. You'd think the military industrial complex would be playing up how competent and great a threat they are.

> Yeah, sorry, I don't believe for a second that Russia has failed to maintain their only playing card.

Have you, uh, been paying attention to Ukraine?

Huh? How would the Russian arsenal being degraded and not effective in any way argue for more US defense spending?

Well, that's the genius in the Military Industrial Complex propaganda.

Russia is either pathetically weak and so we can push their buttons at our heart content or it is a all powerful evil entity and we need to spend like a trillion to close the missile gap.