The economic chaos of the loss of this many jobs is about to hit hard and fast. Then the loss of expertise and services will set in and we will be truly f’d.
Again, why aren’t Schumer, Jeffries et al in front of cameras, on social media, yelling about this???!! What’s wrong with the Democrats? Opposition to this gross, dangerous stupidity by Musk’s team of baby fascists is a no-brainer. It’s so obvious and easy it’s even more basic than Politics 101.
ironically 😳 in the wake of the economic chaos caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union 🤔, nuclear scientists, engineers, and technicians went unpaid for months or years, raising fears that they would sell their talents to terrorist groups, or North Korea...
...so the US created several programs that basically *paid* former Soviet nuclear workers, to keep them from selling their expertise to the highest bidder. (Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program in 1991, Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) in 1994, Nuclear Cities Initiative in 1998.)
they got paid to secure & dismantle bombs; they got grants & funding to pursue peaceful research & commercial technology; they got paid to close the "nuclear cities," convert military facilities to civilian, got economic aid & training for non-defense jobs... they were given worthwhile employment.
in the wake of OUR economic chaos caused by MAGA fascism, wouldn't it be ironic if some pretty girl sidled up to a suddenly-unemployed US nuclear worker who was at a bar crying in their beer, and said, hey, i know this international outfit that needs nuclear consultants. high pay, work from home!
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Thanks to you #GOP.
https://bsky.app/profile/isabelsantos.bsky.social/post/3li7lhkefrc2o
what goes around, comes around?
Putin thought Afghanistan would be payback but we (unlike the USSR) got out relatively unscathed.
Despite trump letting 5000 terrorists go free and sabotaging any withdrawal. Maybe Russia wanted out in 2020 for a reason.