How Many Divisions Does Elon Have? | Australian Markets

The query was framed, based on some historians, by Josef Stalin on the Potsdam Convention. Winston Churchill had instructed that the Pope could be introduced in to supply ethical backing to the Allies’ campaigns towards Hitler.

Stalin will need to have puzzled how morality would maintain up towards Panzer tanks.

‘How many divisions does the Pope have?’ he allegedly requested.

We want we might be within the room when the query comes again.

Of all of the bloated bureaucracies…amongst all of the corrupt and self-serving federales… and all their boondoggle applications — the navy stands out. It fails each audit. It spends trillions, and claims to not know the place the money goes.

But it surely goes someplace. And those that get it know the place it went. They’ve purchased and paid for nearly each member of the Home and the Senate. They’ve put on numerous half-time exhibits…and granted ‘access’ solely to toady journalists. They anticipate to get their money’s value.

In historic Egypt, the excess manufacturing of the Nile Valley was spent building monuments to lifeless rulers. In China, beneath the primary emperor, Qin Shi Huang, a lot of the excess output was spent building a Terracotta Military of more than 8,000 troopers, supposed to guard him within the afterlife.

And in America, circa 2025, ‘national defense’ is a sacred fantasy. Having US troops everywhere in the world…meddling in a single overseas battle after one other…making an attempt to interchange unbiased leaders with puppets — all in, it prices over a trillion {dollars} a 12 months…and virtually certainly makes Individuals much less secure.

However now, the US firepower industry could also be coming beneath assault. Based on the Washington Put up, Musk’s shock troops have crossed the Potomac:

‘The Trump administration has directed defense agencies to turn over a list of their probationary employees by the end of Tuesday, with the expectation that many could be laid off as soon as this week, according to five people familiar with the matter.

‘The directive coincides with the arrival at the Pentagon of personnel from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, which has overseen the firing of 1000’s of probationary workers in different federal companies and coordinated the dismantling of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement.’

‘Uh…you want to see our records?’ the brass will ask…surprised and confused as Elon and his band of callow nerds arrive on the Pentagon.

‘That’s categorised’, they’ll reply.

‘We’re right here to root out waste’, Elon will clarify.

‘No useless aircraft? No easily sunk ships? Close unnecessary bases? Stop useless weapons development? Fire some of the three million people who get our pay cheques? Tighten our belts? Cancel our beach-house plans?’

‘Yeah… that’s proper’, Elon may reply.

‘What about our enemies?’ they’ll ask.

‘What enemies?’ Elon will reply. ‘You know perfectly well that there is no country on earth capable of crossing the ocean with a viable armada. They’d be worn out by missiles and bombers earlier than even leaving port.’

‘Uh…what about Russia…China…terrorists?’

‘Are you kidding? Russia has a tiny economy. China’s economic system relies on promoting stuff to Individuals, not attacking them. And terrorists have by no means been something more than a pretend enemy.’

But it surely’s one factor to cut back spending by USAID. It’s one other to cut back it for the US Military, Navy and Air Drive. The final time the Pentagon needed to cut its funds was after WWII. The troops got here home. Troopers have been ‘de-mobbed’. Eisenhower (who knew more concerning the navy than any president since) peeled practically 30% off the Division of Protection outlays.

That was then…earlier than firepower turned the nation’s defining industry, with efficient control over each political events. Right now, for appearances sake, the warfare fighters are more likely to shed a few ‘probationary’ workers. Perhaps they’ll sacrifice some weapons that they by no means needed anyway.

However why ought to the world’s ‘most lethal’ combating drive take its orders from an immigrant from Africa? Sooner or later, whether or not voiced or tacit, the query is certain to return up:

‘And how many divisions do you have, Elon?’

Regards,

Invoice Bonner,
For Fats Tail Day by day

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