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USA y u no sell us missiles?
« on: July 18, 2012, 02:12:42 am »
Ok I know this is a weird topic but:

I was reading Finnish news and found out that we couldn't by the artillery missiles we had wanted from USA because the congress hasn't approved it. Pentagon already promised to sell us 70 missiles for the price of 100 million € but the congress approval (which is considered symbolical) never came.

Come one US, I thought you were cool, I thought that you guys love guns and bombs and rockets. Is this because congress is too busy trying to bring down Obamacare? You really need to consider which is more important: trying to undo the Obamacare for the 135th time or MISSILES! Think of all the explosions we could make with them! We even share a border with Russia so chances are if they get used in a war they might be used to blowing up Russians. Or Swedish. And we do share a border with Norway as well so if we get into a fight with NATO we could use them against your allies. Hmmm... But remember: EXPLOSIONS!



Seriously though, 100million is still pennies compared to the money US needs and the amount of jobs this might save is also quite small when you think about the whole country but it is silly that USA is losing work and money because the congress is so busy trying to destroy everything Obama has done.
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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2012, 04:33:51 am »
You might question whether any missile, no matter how good, can be worth one million dollars a pop.
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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2012, 05:12:02 am »
You might question whether any missile, no matter how good, can be worth one million dollars a pop.
It really all depends on what you shoot it at.

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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2012, 06:39:17 am »
I am strongly of the opinion that over 1 Million Euros is way to expensive for anything other than nuclear weapons. (Weapons grade radioactive materials are expensive to refine) It sounds like you guys are being ripped off, but then My country spend billions on like 2 boats and 4 helicopters or something. Like any arms deal, there are so many people taking back pocket cuts its amazing.

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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2012, 08:12:07 am »
Well you never had a congress that hates socialism so much that they would want to screw over a socialist country. ::)

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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2012, 02:18:15 pm »
try oppressing your citizens more and having oil.

That usually helps
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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2012, 03:00:41 pm »
It's our government's way of trying to pressure you vodka-swilling reindeer-herders into joining NATO.   ;)
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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2012, 01:40:09 am »
Update: It turns out that we didn't get the missiles because we made mistake while filling the paperwork. We wanted to buy M-57 missiles but accidentally wrote M-39 on the paper...  :-[

Well you never had a congress that hates socialism so much that they would want to screw over a socialist country. ::)

1: First I wanted to make a comment about that "socialist country" bit but then I remembered that you are measuring us by the US standard of what is "socialist."

2:Our current goverment might be the most right wing goverment we have ever had. So you are trying to screw over a socialist country by causing problems to its right wing goverment?


It's our government's way of trying to pressure you vodka-swilling reindeer-herders into joining NATO.   ;)

1: We aren't all reindeer herders.

2: Back in the cold war if NATO didn't want to sell us something we just went and bought the same thing from soviets. (As an added bonus the communists in Finland couldn't protest about bying weapons from CCCP because they were always preaching about how the Soviet weapons are "weapons of peace.")
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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2012, 09:20:54 am »
Your sarcasm detector needs maintenance...

Or you are taking it sarcastically seriously, and mine does, I'm not sure.
That said, I've stopped trying to anticipate what people around here want a while ago, I've found it makes things smoother.
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Re: USA y u no sell us missiles?
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2012, 10:05:02 am »
Your sarcasm detector needs maintenance...

Or you are taking it sarcastically seriously, and mine does, I'm not sure.

Sorry, I guess I should put more sarcasm tags and smileys on my comments.

That or write something that is actually funny, rather than just these anti-jokes that I seem to be cabable of.
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were:
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. :)  I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches.  Tingly!